World Hope Forum : Heads Upriver - Hort & Pott – CARTER HARRINGTON & TODD CARR

Carter Harrington graduated from Pratt Institute in 2010 in interior architecture and subsequently worked in New York as a graphic artist, product designer and fabricator.

Todd Carr is a master gardener, ceramicist, designer and visual stylist, who has worked in the horticultural world for more than two decades. He was the Senior Garden Editor at Martha Stewart Living.

Todd and Carter met in 2015 and the following summer they rented a summer cottage in Oak Hill, New York, about thirty minutes northwest of Hudson. They made new friends, and when August came, they didn’t want to go back to the city. In September, they heard about a little 1850 farmhouse that was for sale nearby. When they realized the purchase price was close to their annual rent in the city, they threw caution to the wind, bought the house, and moved Upstate. Once they had settled in, they rented an 1869 former carriage barn nearby and combined their talents to create a mixed retail and art space. Todd reintroduced Hort and Pott, the name of a boutique he had owned in Maine, and together they imagined a mix of botany, antiques, and horticulture-inspired pottery. Back at the farmhouse, Todd planted an extensive garden, which became another source of inspiration for the carriage house. The subsequent visual storytelling of their social media posts evoked an idyllic life—from farmhouse to garden to studio to home—and people travelled from all over to experience their environment. As they outgrew the carriage house, Carter and Todd found a large property in Freehold, which included an Italianate house, a former boarding house, two outbuildings, and a stream, all on twenty acres of land. When life slowed down in 2020, they started by renovating the boarding house and reopened Hort and Pott the following summer. With Todd as the artist in his studio and Carter the maker in his workshop, they’ve created more than a nursery, flower shop, or gallery. They extended their unique vision into their environment and created a community that comes to them for inspiration. They recently completed the restoration of the Italianate House and moved in over Christmas 2023. To Carter and Todd, horticulture is an essential part of life, presented in a dense green environment that helps people reimagine the way they live inside versus outside.

www.hortandpott.com