Doesn’t get cuter than Hammy in the fall 🍂💛 #babydollsheep #sheep #love #friends

Hello all, just a reminder that you will never regret planting a chestnut tree. Still have some for sale at alpenglowfarmnj.com & will gladly answer any questions, we are just as obsessed with talking about trees as we are eating things that fall out of them. 💚🌰🌱🌳

Two yrs ago, lamb melee #sheep #lambs #fight #funny

Ham & Pep #sheep #babydollsheep #cute #friends

Time to collect bottlebrush buckeye seed 🌳🤓 Like paw paw, bottlebrush seeds are recalcitrant, so if they dry out they are a no go. Need to collect promptly and keep moist until planting. We have a lot of plants so it’ll be fun to grow out some to share! #nativeplants #flowers #seedsaving

Sugar maples loaded up with future trees 🚁 (or snacks, the seeds are edible) #samaras #trees #fall #maple #foraging #seeds 🌱🌳

Pepper is our sentinel, always watching 👀 #sheep #farm #goodjob #cute #lawnmower

Last weekend of summer #farm #flowers #nuts #berries #sheep

Daily farm chores 🙄 #sheep #pets #cute #farm #friends

We still have loads of hazelnut seedlings available for fall planting! Very low maintenance, great as a hedge, and super productive after just a few years. These are seedlings of cultivar euro hazelnuts, bred for great nuts & disease resistance. alpenglowfarmnj.com/nursery #gardening #foodforest 🌱

Garden stroll #gardening #foodforest #nativeplants #flowers #sheep

Hangin with Hammy #sheep #pets #farm #friend

Muppet rush hour #sheep #grazing

Aster season #flowers #nativeplants #wildflowers

Sheep enjoying some cud & watching the sunrise as they do every morning ☀️🐑 #sunrise #sheep #morning

We cut up an old dead tree with chicken on it a few years ago, and this garden log and a few of its siblings still reliably produce #mushrooms #fungi #gardening #chicken #foodforest

Pepper is putting on the fluff. We had to trim the wool around her eyes so she can see, and will have to every month or two until spring 💚 #babydollsheep #sheep #pets #wool

Our fall tree and shrub inventory is now posted! Bare root plants, fruits, nuts, and some of our favorite natives. Ordering open until Nov 1st, plants ship once dormant 🌱🌳 #gardening #foodforest #nativeplants #permaculture #trees #pollinators alpenglowfarmnj.com/nursery

Weekend paddock open for business #morning #weekend #sheep #mowing

Another batch of witch hazel seeds in the collector after a few days of popping in the greenhouse Popper Dropper™️🍿 #seedsaving #nativeplants #witchhazel

Squash season for the sheep! 🎃 Squash seeds contain the compound cucurbitacin which is a natural dewormer. We try to get them seeds a few times/week in the fall. Between rotational grazing, squash seeds, and lots of pets we have not had to deworm them this year :) #sheep #natural #plantmedicine

Bean the cat watching over her flock #cat #sheep #farm #friends

Harvesting Witch Hazel seeds from our forest. Need to be prompt with this because once seed pods start to dry, they pop open & eject the seeds up to 30 ft! We keep them in open paper bags to dry and over several days it sounds like someone is making popcorn 😁 #seeds #nursery #nativeplants #nature 🌱

Pepper sayin hi 🔊 #babydollsheep #farm #bah #cute #sheep

Hibiscus moscheutos in the rain garden #nativeplants #raingarden #flowers #bloomscrolling

Exciting announcements! We are changing our name to Alpenglow Farm - inspired by our favorite view! Also, fall plant sale will be live next week, for shipping in October/early Nov once plants go dormant. #farm #nursery #flowers #plantsale #foodforest #trees #nativeplants

Weekend views #gardening #sheep #farm #foodforest #sunrise #fruit

Franklin and co. #babydollsheep #sheep #farm #friends

Shinseiki Asian pears are on their way :) Asian pears are particularly great as a no-spray fruit tree, so we seeded lots of pyrus betulifolia this year to use as future rootstocks, and they are looking very ready for grafting in the spring. #foodforest #orchard #pears #grafting #gardening #fruit

Early AM in the garden #gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling #backyard

Bouncing into Thursday #sheep #landscaping #morning #work

The sheep always seek out the highest point in their paddock to sleep at night. Sometimes they find a really comfy hill and sleep late into the morning like Penny here. #sheep #sleep #cute #morning #fall

First hazelnuts are dropping! Time to get roasting #hazelnuts #foodforest #nuts #gardening #september

Two years since we hired these guys 💚 #landscapers #lambs #babydollsheep #cute #lawnmowers #farm #friends

Franklin greatly enjoying a little shoulder rub 😛 #sheep #pets #funny #friend

Big wild garden walk. 3.5 years since this was grass, now it’s…much different. No machinery, just a tarp and lots of wheelbarrowing- tarp is in place for the next expansion this fall! 🌱 #keepgrowing #foodforest #nativeplants #gardening #outdoors #biodiversity #flowers #bloomscrolling #nature

Saddleback caterpillars working on a blueberry. Never seen them before but luckily didn’t do the usual squish with fingers. Apparently those aren’t hairs but spines that are more painful than a bee sting 👀 #gardening #caterpillars

Drying this wk- lots of celosia, sweet annie, amaranth, marigold, goldenrod, reed, zinnia, strawflower, statice, bupleurum, hydrangea #flowers #driedflowers #gardening #bloomscrolling

Austree Hybrid Willow is one of the fastest growing trees out there. These spring cuttings are already 8’ tall! Great for wet spots, coppicing, shade, habitat, ramial chips, fodder, & handy straight wood. A perfect alternative to bamboo as it doesn’t run and does not produce viable seeds #gardening

Happy sleepy sheep pets #sheep #sunday

Nice day to garden, 45 days left until first frost #gardening #weekend #flowers #morning

Nights are getting colder and Pepper’s getting fluffier #babydollsheep #cute #sheep #friend

Blackberries just about done fruiting so it’s time to prune! Step one- remove all of the old canes that fruited this year, step two- shorten the remaining new canes to encourage branching, step 3- feed it all to Team Fertilizer #blackberries #pruning #fruit #gardening #sheep

Yet to find a favorite eucalyptus variety to grow (as an annual in Z6) & dry, so just trying all of them this year. Any favorites out there? #gardening #flowers #eucalyptus

Red Haven peach grafted onto American plum. Lots of growth since grafting this spring & starting to look like a nice lil tree! Preferring plum rootstock for peaches here as our two peach trees on peach roots are constantly oozing at the trunk from borers, but no damage on any plums #gardening #fruit

Walking around the nursery beds, woody perennials looking happy & healthy after an inch of rain. Lots of mulch, diversity & beneficial insects working as the preventative medicine for pests & disease. For sale/ship once dormant in fall #nospray #nursery #biodiversity #nativeplants #gardening

Morning #gardening #sheep #flowers #bloomscrolling #weekend

Feeding everybody at the veggie farm we manage 🌞 Just a cover crop of sunflowers, partially for biomass, mostly for fun #flowers #bloomscrolling #organic #farming #covercrop #pollinators

Drying some flowers face up- gravity gives them a more open effect than hang drying #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening

Air prune box of Stuart & Kanza pecan seedlings, hardy to zone 5-6! Air pruning is extra important for the hickory genus because a taproot that is cut (by a shovel) or spiraling (pot-grown) will take years to, or may never recover. We’ll have these available in fall, $10, roots intact! #gonuts 🌱🌳