Need Home Decor Inspo? Chestnut Hill’s Home + Garden Festival Returns Featuring 300 Vendors, Food, & Entertainment
Need some home decor inspo? Then be sure to head over to Chestnut Hill on Sunday, May 4, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m for the highly-anticipated Home + Garden Festival. The festival will feature nearly 300 vendors set up along the 8000 to 8600 blocks of Germantown Avenue, which will be car free.
The all-day, family-friendly event highlights home and garden decor, outdoor craft demonstrations, live music, children’s activities, and over 200 retailers, restaurants, and businesses within the Chestnut Hill Business District. During Home + Garden, outdoor vendors will feature lawn sculptures, garden art, heirloom plants, beekeeping, flower baskets, terrariums, landscaping, lawn care, jewelry, vintage goods, collectibles, indoor decor, and more.
Returning this year is the Maker’s Village, featuring craft demonstrations, including pottery and macrame, bulb layering, and an observation hive with hive tools along the 8000 block of Germantown Avenue. Cider Belly Hard Cider and Baker Street Bread are two existing businesses on the same block of Maker’s Village that each share a commitment to locally sourced handmade products.
The festival boasts several blocks of home improvement-focused vendors along with home decor, complementing the numerous home and garden stores throughout Chestnut Hill, including Laurel Hill Gardens, Robertson’s Flowers, EMBER, Gabby & Summer Classics, NoName Gallery, Gravers Lane Gallery, HOST
Interiors, Tailored Home, Kitchen Kapers, Garden State Tile, Occasionatte, PTK Gallery, and Home Works. Additionally, no stop to the Home + Garden Festival would be complete without a visit to the oldest hardware store in Philadelphia, Killian Hardware (8450 Germantown Avenue), founded in 1913. The family-owned store features everything needed for gardening and other activities around the house.
2025 Home + Garden Festival Schedule of Events
*For the most updated list of activities and vendors, please click HERE
Makers Village (8000 block of Germantown Avenue): What the artisans create working during live
demonstrations beginning at 11 a.m.
Stagecrafters Theater (8130 Germantown Avenue): Enjoy family-friendly entertainment and theatrical
performances, including:
● Musical Revue performed by Pretzel Theater Company at noon
● Face painting from noon to 3 p.m.
● Enjoy Children’s Theatre’s performances of the classic tale Hanzel and Gretel at 1, 2, and 3 p.m.
● Live dance performances by SNAPCo. at 1:30 p.m.
Live Music:
● Buckley Park (Germantown Ave & Hartwell Lane)
○ Carty Brown: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
● Bethlehem Pike Stage (Germantown Avenue and Bethlehem Pike)
○ Dukes of Destiny: 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
● Home Works (8100 Germantown Ave)
○ DJ Aaron Clark: Noon to 5 p.m.
More Can’t Miss Activities!
● Outdoor at McNally’s Tavern (8634 Germantown Avenue): A Chestnut Hill institution, McNally’s
opens up and will host an outdoor cookout. In addition to cooking up tasty sandwiches like the
Schmitter, McNally’s will offer beer and spring-inspired slushies.
● Used Book Sale at Tavern on the Hill (8636 Germantown Avenue): Tavern on the Hill will be
hosting Hilltop Books, the bookstore of the Friends of the Chestnut Hill Library. Used Books will
be available for purchase!
In case of inclement weather, the Home + Garden festival will occur on Sunday, May 18. Be sure to
check HERE for the most up-to-date information.
