On Sunday, April 19, Bell Urban Farm hosted its annual spring plant sale featuring local farmers and growers from across Arkansas.

The plant sale offered families a chance to enjoy a nice, sunny day while they shopped the selection of plants, tools, seeds and soil. Vendors sold nearly every type of plant from veggies and herbs to flowers.

The free event offered people a chance to shop around farmers market style, where it’s free to go and enjoy the community and browse but pay vendors directly.

On top of the gardening and farming materials available to purchase, there was also coffee and ice cream available, and the Bell Urban Farm stand was open for people to shop in as well.

For local farmer and owner of Mindful Farmer, Sean Pessarra, the annual plant sale offers a chance to connect with the community and see familiar faces that have bought from him at past plant sales.

Pessarra said that Bell Urban Farm’s plant sale offers the local farmers and growers a chance to check in with one another.

“We get to interact, for us as farmers and growers, with each other and swap ‘Hey, how’s the strawberries doing this year?’ So it really brings everyone together,” Pessarra said.

The plant sale offered shoppers a chance to start up or add on to their own little garden at home.

Conway community member Julia Compton had her pockets full of plant sprouts to add to her home garden.

“I come here a lot … I just wanted to pick up a few things for my little garden at home, especially the mint for my watermelon,” said Compton.

Events such as this plant sale offer people in the community a chance to connect with others who share the same interest or hobby since it is centered around growing.

Pessarra said, “[these events] are so good for the community because you bring everyone together and so you see similar faces. That’s one of the things that we love, being here at an event like this I get to see the same people that maybe got out fertilizer last year and ask them how their garden is doing.”

Compton said that she loves events like this because they bring people together and allow her to support local farms and businesses.

The vendors featured at the 2026 Bell Urban Farm Spring Plant Sale were Bell Urban Farm, Evergreen Academy, Wildland Gardens, Honeycomb Seed, Mindful Farmer, Berkeley Farm, Man of the Red Earth, Etchieson Co., Buckthorn’s Native Nursery, Firelight Farm, Roots of Truth Farm, Loblolly Creamery and Demure Coffee. These vendors are from all over the state of Arkansas and are all locally owned and operated.

Bell Urban Farm ensures that all vendors involved in its event feature plants grown with the love of a small business rather than large corporations according to its website.

For more information on Bell Urban Farm or any of its events visit them online at bellurbanfarm.com.