Old folklore says the thorns of wild roses are fairy ladders, tiny steps that help the Little Folk climb, swing, and travel from place to place. Next time you pass a briar, look closely, for you may catch sight of a fairy slipping away on a thorn-tipped stair. #RoseWednesday

My favorite animal? Quite possibly. A snowberry clearwing “hummingbird” moth visiting statice in my cutting garden today.

Excited about my cute new mini fridge for the farm stand 🤩

Shallots! I love them for their complex flavor. We’ll have some available at our farm stand after they’re done curing. #food #farming #michigan

Phlox! (“Cherry Caramel”) #flowers #farming

Albino raccoon! So neat to see. At first I thought I saw a cat way up in the big box elder tree that I look out at through our kitchen window. Then I thought it was an opossum. Then I zoomed in… Maybe this is who has been digging up all of the turtle eggs around our yard.

My fennel brings all the cats to the yard (black swallowtail bebes)

Today is first cucumber beetle day & first tarnished plant bug day. Caught the latter (they’re fast) & smashed it with glee #sorrynotsorry

Today all 3 families of Canada geese that are nesting in our yard visited the vineyard at the same time 🥹

Special order for today 💗

Pansy-monium #flowers

Our first on-farm concert was a success. Here’s to many more! #music #flowers

Ranunculus among us 😍 Hoping to have more than ever before this year!

Mother Nature said yellow is the color of the day! Spotted this Northern yellow warbler at Squiers Preserve in Chelsea. The yellow flowers are some kind of buttercup. It was wet and I didn’t get close enough to ID.

Farm stand beauty.

Walked out this morning to cut some branches, said hello to the muskrat, the gold finch, the red-bellied woodpecker, gave thanks for this life—

The #tulips are almost done, but we’re enjoying them in all of their stages.

Soon I’ll have more than I know what to do with.

Opened the farm stand up for biz yesterday. Currently have tulips coming out of my ears #flowers #farming

Removed the flowers from my rhubarb so that it would put more energy into stalks, made a weird thing. #isthisikebana ? #flowers #floristsky #art

Today’s #bird visitors #birds #birding

Just look at this gorgeous mama 😍 Still working on my ID. Is she a brown belted? A rusty-patched? If you know, let me know #bee #bumblebee #pollinators

Today is first snake day.

We live right next to a marsh, so are surrounded by amphibian song. Heard the first toads today. I love their little trills! m.youtube.com/watch?v=A2F2...

I’ve decided that I’ll use this account as a log for when I see “firsts”—as in first of the season. I’m in Southeast Michigan. Today: first bumblebee (actually saw several)! Also saw the first butterfly. #spring

The red-winged blackbirds have officially returned to #Michigan !#spring #itshappening 🌱

What I’m workin’ with today. 😍Wrapped bouquets & Mason jar arrangements will be heading to Simply Fresh Market in Brighton tomorrow morning. 💗

Happy #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday to all who celebrate.

Seed inventory/organization begins, later than intended, as usual. 😅

1st-2nd February is Imbolc, a Gaelic festival celebrating the impending lambing season and the birth of new life. A Scottish legend tells that the arrival of snowdrops infuriates Beira, Queen of Winter, so she brings frost and snow as she battles to keep her hold. #FolkloreSunday

Hello #MI friends! I’m just gonna leave this here in the off chance someone might see it who’s actually in my vicinity…I’m bringing in Ypsi grown tulips for V-Day & deliver to all of Brighton + parts of Howell, Milford, Whitmore Lake, & South Lyon. 2026 bouquet subscriptions are also now live!

I didn’t think I could love bees any more than I already do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s...

I don’t think I ever shared a photo of our new farm stand here! Here’s a pic of it from last week, before the first snowfall. The stand was both constructed & painted by Lansing, MI artist Tom Phillips.

I always take a pic of the season’s first handful of cherry tomatoes, which this year came on 8/20. (Late!) They’re just not ripening, & other people have been telling me theirs aren’t either. Sure, my toms got early blight & the deer have cropped them a few times, but… www.mlive.com/news/grand-r...

Let us remember that it is Earth who gives us life -- and that this time of delusional excess is soon coming to an end.

First monarch caterpillar sighting of the year! This one is tiny, about the length of my pinky fingernail. The milkweed in my front garden bed looks awful & I would love to rip it out for aesthetic reasons, but there it will stay.

Just found out today is #WorldSnakeDay so I’m joining in the celebration. I’ve seen more garter snakes on our little farm than anywhere else ever—I think they nest under our deck! Here is a portrait I took of one sunning on a log shortly after we moved in. 🐍

Glad I got the garlic harvested before the rain. This year’s crop was grown with seed sourced from Northwoods Farm and Skill in Michigan, as well as some we saved ourselves. I’ll be hanging these to cure in our barn’s loft, & after that I’ll bundle them with dried flowers & herbs. 🌸🧄🌿

Today in #flowers : the zins are beginning

🌞 Happy Summer Solstice 🌞 from the wasp mantidfly, which isn’t a wasp or a mantid but is definitely my new favorite #insect Seen here on one of our sweet pepper plants.

Why keep geese when wild ones will do the trick? Currently three couples with three goslings each are raising their babes here, & they mow through at least 3 times a day. Our vineyard just got planted, plz excuse the mess! (& don’t mind the sound of our radon removal system.) #farming

This spring I have been keeping a record of “firsts.” The first pea flowers of the season opened today. Also saw the first purslane sprout & the first earwig. #June

Meant to do this 😉…latest bouquet

If you see this, post a 🌺. Lush harvest of roses and yarrow from my medicine garden! #bloomsky 🌱

Iris season 💜🤍💛 This is the only variety I have & they are some my mother-in-law dug up & gave me—no tag. I don’t know a lot about irises, so if anyone knows what kind they are, plz do tell! #irises #flowers #bloomscrolling

A deep drink. (If anyone can ID this little wing, I’d appreciate it!) #butterfly #bloomscrolling

Happy World Turtle Day! We are bordered by marshes so get lots of shelled visitors on our farm, from freshly hatched painted turtles to elderly snappers.

Today is World Bee Day. There are around 20,000 species of bees in the world, yet honey bees gets most of the fanfare. Here’s to the sweat bees, the leafcutter bees, the mason bees, the longhorn bees, the bumble bees, the carpenter bees, the squash bees, and all the rest of our unsung bee heroes!

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