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The Holly Abode at Green Frog Acreage in Alamo. The allowance amount is $135 for two bodies per night, additional a ancient charwoman fee of $25.(Photo: C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun)Buy Photo
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Plastic Chicken House/Coop, Green Frog Designs plus automatic door ... | Green Frog Designs Chicken HouseGreen Frog Farm, aforetime alleged Green Frog Apple in Crockett County, was a alive acreage called for a longtime grocery abundance abreast the bend of the property. Green Frog Abundance was congenital in the aboriginal 1800s. It was the alone battleground in the neighborhood. “We alive on the acreage breadth my mother was aloft and it joins Green Frog,” said Dr. John Freeman, buyer of the farm.
Freeman purchased the 35-acre acreage about 1987. The apple began in 1991 with a donated country abundance and an 1840-era log house. It now includes all the elements of a rural Southern apple and two log cabins that may be rented.
One of my admired destinations in West Tennessee, Green Frog Acreage is the aftereffect of one man’s adherence to bottle West Tennessee’s agronomical heritage. Freeman had been a missionary in Thailand for 10 years aback he alternate to Bells and began accession and abating log cabins.
Today there are added than 20 structures that ambit from a booze afford to a affection gin congenital in 1910. Green Frog Apple has been featured in abundant publications, on WKNO Public Radio’s Tennessee Crossroads, and in a movie.
‘Brave New Jersey’
Most of the cine “Brave New Jersey” was filmed at Green Frog. “This movie, set in 1938, will be apparent at the Austin, Texas, Blur Festival in October,” Freeman said. “It’s in the top 5 featured films. The producers chose Crockett Canton because one of the producers’ grandparents lived in this canton and they bare a low account site. Maybe this cine will get on the blur circuit,” added Freeman. The aboriginal appellation of the cine was “Brave New World” — “Brave New Jersey” is a abandonment of “Brave New World.”
Cabin in the Pines
This quiet berth is amidst by old and different ache trees, appropriately the name. It is amid on the aback ancillary of the acreage adverse Johnson’s Grove Road abutting aperture to the farm’s owner.
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Chicken Lodge Medium - Green Frog Designs | Green Frog Designs Chicken HouseThe Pines was purchased about bristles years ago from a bounded acquaintance of Freeman’s. The acquaintance grew up in this log berth and confused it from the Camden area. Then the acquaintance got algid anxiety and absitively not to clean the cabin, so Freeman acquired it and accumulated the logs. “We accept been renting this berth for about three years to singles, couples, and accumulated businessmen and women,” Freeman said. “Several guests abstruse of us from AirB&B and vacationrentalbyowner.com.”
The Berth in the Pines at Green Frog Acreage in Alamo. (Photo: C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun)
The Pines berth has a capital sitting allowance with a fireplace, which is accepted in the abatement and winter, and a bedroom, baby kitchen and dining room. Bench is a queen bed, and the attic has a bifold bed and a distinct bed.
Frequently, guests are honeymooners, and some are retirees. “To our surprise, a lot of our guests are all-embracing visitors,” said Freeman, abacus that AirB&B and VBBRO accept fabricated the cabins absolutely profitable.
“I added assimilate this cabin,” Freeman said. “We ample up the logs and did all of the work.” According to Freeman, the aboriginal buyer of the berth was a moonshiner on the ancillary and he awash whiskey to politicians in Nashville. A booze still was captured that was authoritative whiskey in a adjoining county. It is now amid abaft The Pines B&B in a blackberry/blueberry patch.
The Green Frog cabins, which accept axial calefaction and air, accept books to apprehend (there is no Internet or television in the cabins) or guests may aces berries in division from the end of June through aboriginal August. They may adapt their own breakfast at the cabins — eggs, atom and toast, and bootleg blackberry clabber fabricated by Freeman’s wife Nancy.
Farm attractions
Most of the brief guests in the log cabins adore exploring the farm. “We’re aggravating to save the history of the rural South,” Freeman said. The guests adore adorable at the affection gin and one-room school, the church, book boutique and the arboretum. They may additionally angle in the pond on the acreage (catch and absolution action — abounding with bass, catfish and bluegill), aces berries and eat adorable aliment at TN-Q at the Farm. It is accessible Wednesday through Sunday and is accepted for its barbecue and craven salad, amid added foods.
An adorable lady’s boutique — Anita’s Designs — is on the property. Across Highway 412 from McDonald’s is High Affection and Co., which specializes in antiques, ability and art.
Overnight guests at The Green Frog Acreage accept a adulatory canyon to adjacent Tennessee Safari Park.
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The Holly Abode became an brief bedfellow berth about two years ago. “We had this berth for 20 years, but it was acclimated as a bathrobe allowance for weddings on the property. My babe Krista, who coordinates the on-site events, absitively this berth should be a able B&B,” Freeman said.
There are two apartment downstairs, a kitchen (a above dog trot), and a bedroom. The log allowance is the capital sitting allowance with a fireplace. Upstairs there is a bifold bed and a distinct bed.
The bedchamber central the Holly Abode at Green Frog Acreage in Alamo. (Photo: C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun)
Nancy Freeman is a affiliate of the American Holly Society, so she buried a lot of holly about The Holly House.
Some of the guests, abnormally accumulated businessmen and women, break for continued periods. The allowance amount is $135 for two bodies per night additional a ancient charwoman fee of $25. If a bedfellow stays longer, the fee may be adjourned for both cottages. “We get absolutely a few bodies from Jackson,” John Freeman said. “They appetite to get abroad from home and absorb the night, and they apperceive us.”
I asked him why he is so amorous about Green Frog Farm. He has committed about 25 years of his activity to this project. He said, “I’m absorbed in history and old log structures. It’s a footfall aback in time into rural Southern history with a 1900s-era affection gin, a blacksmith shop, beef saw mill, book shop, a four-room academy and a abbey breadth weddings are held. We’re now absorption on weddings and events. So far, anybody who has looked at our contest area has appointed an accident there.”
Future plans
In the approaching the two log cabins may be busy for conjugal parties as allotment of a bells package. John Freeman has in accumulator a complete dental unit, a doctor’s appointment and a shoe adjustment shop, all from the 1900s.
According to Freeman, Green Frog Acreage is “a assignment in progress.”
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Green Frog Designs | Green Frog Designs Chicken HouseInside the Holly Abode at Green Frog Acreage in Alamo. (Photo: C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun)
Inside the Berth in the Pines at Green Frog Acreage in Alamo. (Photo: C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun)
At a glance
What: Green Frog Acreage Log Berth B&Bs
Where: 15 Green Frog Lane, Alamo, TN 38001
Directions: From I-40 branch west, booty Exit 79 to Hwy 412 and chase signs to Dyersburg.
Phone: (731) 663-3319
Website: www.greenfrogfarm.org
Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb and VRBO.com (Vacation Rental by Owner)
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