So much to look at!

Little landscaper

What’s growing

Long days in a good way

Lawnmower tune-up

Rolling along

Full time job

Making more serviceberries

June

Fruits

A nice one 🌈

Find the sheep, find the shade 😎

Full swing 🌱🐑🌳

Messing around with some apple grafts 🙃

Sheeps among the tubes, persimmons grafts up next on the callus pipe, found some treasures, young Yellowhorn tree flowering 🐑🌳🍄‍🟫🌼

Food forest walk

Sheeps full of grass, air prune boxes full of seeds

Hammy boy loving life

Sheep shrinking day 🐑

Petting fluffy sheep, packing etsy orders, grafting volunteers

With my buddy Hammy

Bits of spring 🐑

Fluffy brothers

Making trees 🌳 🌰🍎

Hazelnut from @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social has survived winter and started to bloom 🤍🌱

Teamwork

Lots going on, sticking hardwood cuttings, trying some woody perennials in seed snails for air prunes roots, callus pipe filling up with grafts, digging plants, cooler filling up with nursery orders! #plants #nativeplants #spring #nursery #seeding #grafting

Pepper pursuing pets #sheep

Playing with plants again! Getting the hot callus pipe going. This is pipe insulation with a heated cable inside, on a thermostat set to 78F. Used to maintain heat at graft unions so they callus while plants stay dormant, often for difficult to graft nut trees like hazel, walnut, pecan & more! 🐿️

Deep freeze is over and finally a chance to start pruning the orchard! Lots of nice Goumi cuttings and maybe some scions to graft on invasive autumn olive. Lil Pepper looking fluffy, not sure she noticed the -25F wind chill yesterday.

Deep winter

Winter views #gardening #flowers #winter

Breakfast boy #sheep #pets #winter

Have a good one #christmas #sheep

Petting the teddy bears #sheep

Happy Winter! Our online nursery is updated and open for spring pre-orders! Bare root plants, natives, edibles, cuttings, scions, all the stuff we love to grow alpenglowfarmnj.com/nursery

Heartnuts going into stratification & putting away some fig cuttings for the spring #gardening #nuts #trees #nursery #figs #foodforest #winter

Heading out for some December grass #sheep #run

Franklin accidentally volunteers #sheep

Digging red dogwoods & sharing some hay #nativeplants #gardening #sheep

Lil Pepper asking for some hay on behalf of the team #sheep #team

Wreath season! ❄️ #handmade #flowers #farm #floral #wreath #holiday #sustainable #everlasting

Digging some birch-leaved pears we started from seed this year. Nice and pencil thick, ready to be used as rootstocks for grafting Asian pears in the spring. Snapdragons in the background hanging in there late into the season. #trees #gardening #nursery #roots #flowers #fall

Fall cleanup crew #sheep #team

Shellbark hickory aka Kingnut. North America’s largest nut and along with pecan, probably the tastiest! Excited to start stratification this weekend with plans to offer lots of seedlings next year 🌳

Diggin trees, pettin sheeps #fall #sheep #nativeplants #trees

Good morning 😁

Pepper & Franklin in some cool season grasses 💚 After lots of work this fall taking down ash trees & clearing brush, we’re expanding our sheep pasture down near our road where we’re planning a little paw paw, mulberry & asian pear orchard. Sheep are getting their first taste of it today #sheep #farm

Family dinner #sheep #dinner

The crew, some seeds to stratify, digging american groundnuts, witch hazel season. #sheep #trees #nativeplants #gardening #fall