Dave and Jenny Marrs are celebrating a huge win in the wake of their 2025 “Berry Bloom Dinner” held May 1 on their farm.
Jenny Marrs put up an emotional Instagram post about 18 hours after the dinner, showing the couple speaking to a table full of people with an open garage door looking out onto their farm.
In the post, she wrote, “I love the six powerful words tucked within the book of Lamentations. As everything is crumbling around him and grief and destruction are pressing in on every side, Jeremiah resolutely states, “Yet I still dare to hope…” (Lamentations 3:21).”
Jenny Marrs Sees Dinner as Testimony of Hope
Jenny recounts the evening like this, “Last night, we gathered on the very soil where God has shown us time and again how His faithfulness never ceases. We sat around the table with old and new friends and shared stories of hope happening here and across the sea because of this little working farm of ours. We shared the small steps of faith we took exactly a decade ago when we planted 1,500 tiny blueberry sprigs and prayed for abundance. We shared about conversations that happened around another table across the sea that sparked the idea of our farm funding a farm school for vulnerable teens in our dear friend’s rural Zimbabwean community. We talked about dignity and light breaking through the harsh reality of extreme poverty for these kids we care deeply about. We talked about God’s faithfulness and, most of all, we talked about Hope.”
Marrs expressed her gratitude and celebrated the dinner’s huge success. She wrote, “I am so grateful for this place and every person who is a part of this story. Because of this shared meal with our 2025 berry farm partners, we have a fully funded farm school in Zimbabwe for another year! We will be sending more kids to school, providing them a place to live and meals to eat!.. THANK YOU for daring to hope alongside us! 🫶”
Marrs Berry Farm Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
Dave and Jenny Marrs started the Berry Farm in 2015, four years before HGTV came calling.
The Marrs family planted the berry farm to raise money for the charity “Help One Now.” The organization in Zimbabwe trains orphaned teenagers and young adults to help them transition into adulthood with the skills that they need to succeed.
In an Instagram post April 20, Jenny celebrated the farm’s ten-year anniversary, posting pictures of the day the farm was planted.
In the caption, she wrote, “10 years ago today! Our friends and family gathered with us to plant the fields here at the farm. We worked hard and laughed a lot. (Our kids were so little! Time flies!!)”
On the farm’s website, Dave Marrs explains why they picked blueberries as the thing to plant.
“Blueberries are a crop that will yield fruit over a long period of time. If you nurture them and properly care for them, the investment will span decades. Just the way we are investing in the lives of the children in our program.”
He goes on to write, “We aren’t looking to solve long-stemming issues of hunger and poverty with a short-term investment. We are committed to the long-haul with these kids… we want to sow seeds of truth and righteousness and love. The fruit that will result will be long-lasting: eternal. “
Berry Bloom Dinner Raises Enough Money to Fund Charity for a Year
Jenny Marrs writes that the Berry Bloom dinner was such a success that they raised enough to fully fund the farm school in Zimbabwe for a full year.
Which means they can redirect funds raised from this year’s U-Pick Berry Farm to other causes.
In the Instagram post about the May 1 dinner, Jenny writes, “And, the work of the farm continues this summer. Because our commitment has been met for the school, we will be able to donate proceeds to other nonprofit partners here in our community and across the globe. “
Customers will still be able to come to the Marrs Farm and pick their own blueberries. The Marrs say their blueberries typically ripen mid-June and picking season will run into early July.
They plan to open the farm two to three days a week during the time the blueberries are ripe. The couple hopes to allow as many fans as possible to come to the farm. They’ll announce specific opening dates closer to time, once it becomes clear when the berries will be at their peak.
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HGTV’s Dave & Jenny Marrs Achieve Incredible Goal After ‘Daring to Hope’