WILDWOOD MOUNTAIN FARMS

WILDWOOD MOUNTAIN FARMS We are located in the beautiful mountains of upper east Tennessee. Also Pollinator Plants and Native Trees & Shrubs. Meet up only.

Offering Meat Rabbits, Chickens & Coturnix Quail (eggs, chicks, & adults) raised in the open air of the mountains. Wholesome, old fashioned pastured pork simply raised in the open air of
the mountains of upper east Tennessee. Please note - WE DO NOT HAVE A RETAIL LOCATION.

Two hundred species on your half-acre. You've met maybe twelve.You know the robin, the cardinal, the squirrel. You've se...
04/30/2026

Two hundred species on your half-acre. You've met maybe twelve.

You know the robin, the cardinal, the squirrel. You've seen the rabbit at dusk and the hawk overhead. That's five. You might recognize the chickadee, the blue jay, the chipmunk, the crow, the mourning dove, the house finch, the sparrow. That's twelve.

The other hundred and eighty-eight are here too. They're in the soil, under the bark, inside the leaf litter, along the foundation, in the gutter downspout, beneath every rock and board.

Over a hundred species of insects. Several dozen species of spiders. A handful of amphibians and reptiles. Fungi you can't see. Bacteria you can't count. Nematodes by the millions. Mites by the hundreds of thousands.

Your half-acre is not a lawn with some birds on it. It's a biological station running twenty-four hours a day with a roster deeper than most parks.

You've been mowing the office. Two hundred employees. You know twelve of them by name. 🌿

The lawn outside your window has a shift change at four in the morning.You don't see it. You are asleep. But most mornin...
04/30/2026

The lawn outside your window has a shift change at four in the morning.

You don't see it. You are asleep. But most mornings for the past week and through the next six months, a scheduled handover takes place in the grass twenty feet from your bedroom.

The night crew is clocking out. The day crew is clocking in.

🦇 Night crew, still active until about four fifteen.

A big brown bat is making her final loops over the yard, eating moths and beetles attracted to the porch light. She has been hunting for seven hours. Her stomach is full. She will return to her roost under the eave within the next half hour.

A red fox pair is finishing a hunt at the edge of the property. They caught a meadow vole at three eleven. They will carry it back to the den for the kits.

A raccoon is walking along the top of the fence, heading home. She has been in your trash can, the neighbor's compost, and the drainage ditch behind the yard. She is the last mammal moving.

🐸 A gray tree frog has stopped calling from your oak. He will descend and tuck himself into bark by four thirty.

A great horned owl is carrying a cottontail rabbit back to her nest. She caught it at four oh four. Her chicks will eat in about twelve minutes.

☀️ Day crew, starting at four fifteen.

A cardinal is giving his first song from a perch on the fence, pre-dawn. The cardinal is usually first — something in his biology pushes him to sing before the sky is even lit.

A mourning dove is cooing from the neighbor's gutter. The robin is not yet up.

By four thirty, a song sparrow is singing. By four forty-five, a robin is on the lawn. By five o'clock, the warblers are calling from the canopy. By five fifteen, every diurnal songbird in your yard is awake.

🐦 The fox pair is gone. The bats are asleep. The owl is on her nest. The day belongs to the birds.

🌿 The shift change happens five hundred feet from you, most mornings.

You have probably missed it. You could see it once. You probably won't see it twice.

Set an alarm for three forty-five. Sit outside with a blanket. Do not use a phone screen. Listen.

You will witness something happening in your own backyard that has been going on at the same time, in the same sequence, for longer than humans have been in North America.

The easiest herb pots are the ones where all the plants want the same kind of sun and water, because that makes them so ...
04/30/2026

The easiest herb pots are the ones where all the plants want the same kind of sun and water, because that makes them so much simpler to keep happy 🌿

🪴 Group herbs by their growing style instead of just planting your favorites all together.

🌱 Rosemary, thyme, and oregano usually make sense together because they all like things a little drier.

💧 Basil, parsley, and chives can work nicely in one pot when you keep them evenly watered.

🍃 Mint is the one I’m always careful with, because it loves to spread and can take over faster than people expect.

☀️ My biggest tip is to use a roomy pot with good drainage, because herbs share space much better when their roots are not cramped.

MAY BABY SEASON PREVIEW 🐣The next 30 days will fill your yard with babies.WEEK 1 (May 1-7):Robin fledglings. Bluebird fl...
04/30/2026

MAY BABY SEASON PREVIEW 🐣

The next 30 days will fill your yard with babies.

WEEK 1 (May 1-7):
Robin fledglings. Bluebird fledglings. Wren fledglings. Cardinal fledglings. All on the ground. All fine. Parents nearby.
Bat pups born in the attic colony.

WEEK 2 (May 8-14):
FAWN SEASON. Spotted. Still. Alone. Don't touch.
Fox kits leaving the den territory — some for good.
Opossum babies dropping off mom's back. Going solo.
Rabbit litter 3 in a new nest.

WEEK 3 (May 15-21):
Chimney Swift chicks climbing the chimney walls.
Oriole chicks begging from the hanging pouch.
Hummingbird chicks leaving a nest the size of a walnut.
FIREFLY ADULTS emerging — the babies that were underground for 2 years.

WEEK 4 (May 22-31):
Bat pups take first flight — three weeks from blind to flying.
Second-brood fledglings everywhere.
Fawn following mom on first routes.
Goldfinch FINALLY starts nesting — latest breeder in the yard.

If it's small and on the ground, it probably doesn't need you.
If it's small and in the same spot for 24+ hours, call a rehabber 🌿

Not All Milk Is The Same, Some Cheeses Exist Only Because Of One Specific Goat 🥰🤨Most people think cheese is just… milk ...
04/30/2026

Not All Milk Is The Same, Some Cheeses Exist Only Because Of One Specific Goat 🥰🤨

Most people think cheese is just… milk + process.

But here’s what almost no one realizes 👇
change the goat, and you change the entire cheese.

Same country
Same recipe
Same technique

Yet the taste, texture, aroma, everything shifts.

Why 🤨

Because every goat breed produces milk with a different fat profile, protein structure, and mineral balance.
And that quietly controls how the cheese turns out.

Take this 👇

👉 A high-yield goat like the Saanen gives a lot of milk, but it’s lighter, less rich
👉 A mountain goat grazing wild herbs produces less milk, but it’s deep, aromatic, and intense

So one gives volume.
The other gives character.

Now imagine this difference across regions…

A goat climbing steep rocky hills, eating wild plants, drinking mineral-rich water
vs
A goat raised on controlled feed in flat farmland

You’re not just tasting milk anymore.
You’re tasting terrain, climate, and survival conditions.

That’s why some cheeses can’t be copied.

Not because the recipe is secret…
but because the source itself is unique.

And here’s the part most people miss 👇

Many of these local goat breeds were once close to disappearing.

Meaning some of the most unique cheeses in the world almost vanished,
not because of demand, but because the animal behind them was lost.

So when you taste traditional goat cheese…

You’re not just eating food.
You’re experiencing a living system, breed, land, and history combined.

One goat
One landscape
One flavor that can’t be replicated

The real secret ingredient was never the recipe… it was the animal all along 🤨

You're pulling plants out of your garden that you could be eating for dinner.Lamb's quarters — the dusty-leaved w**d tha...
04/30/2026

You're pulling plants out of your garden that you could be eating for dinner.

Lamb's quarters — the dusty-leaved w**d that shows up in disturbed beds from May onward — tastes like a milder, earthier spinach and cooks the same way. It grows faster than anything you planted on purpose, tolerates drought, and self-seeds so reliably that it comes back whether you want it to or not.

Purslane — the flat, fleshy-stemmed w**d most people scrape off walkway cracks — has a lemony crunch that works raw in salads or lightly sautéed. It's one of the few leafy greens with meaningful omega-3 content, and it thrives in the hot, dry gaps between garden rows where nothing else wants to grow.

Dandelion greens are best eaten young, before the plant flowers, when the leaves are tender and only slightly bitter. The whole plant is usable — leaves in salads, flowers as fritters, roots dried and roasted as a caffeine-free coffee substitute. French and Italian markets sell cultivated dandelion varieties because they never stopped treating it as food.

Chickw**d — the soft groundcover that fills cool-season beds — is mild enough to eat raw by the handful. It thrives in the cold, moist window before warm crops take over, filling a harvest gap most gardeners leave empty.

🌿 How to start eating what's already growing:

- Harvest lamb's quarters and dandelion greens young — before flowering, when leaves are tender and mild

- Pick purslane stems whole and rinse well — it grows flat against soil so it needs a good wash

- Add chickw**d to salads raw — it wilts fast after picking so eat it the same day

- Learn one w**d at a time and confirm ID before eating — a good field guide or your local extension office can help with the first few

The best salad in your garden is the one you've been composting 🌱

Healthy, happy, eating machines. They grow so fast. Beginning to feather out.
04/30/2026

Healthy, happy, eating machines. They grow so fast. Beginning to feather out.

04/25/2026

Growing!! Coturnix Quail are eating machines.

Did you know Coturnix quail are one of the fastest-growing poultry birds you can raise?These little birds mature quickly...
04/25/2026

Did you know Coturnix quail are one of the fastest-growing poultry birds you can raise?

These little birds mature quickly, start laying eggs at a young age, and don’t need much space compared to chickens. Their eggs may be small, but they’re packed with nutrition and have a rich, delicious flavor.

Coturnix quail are also quiet, efficient, and a great option for families, homesteaders, and anyone interested in small-scale sustainable food production.

Tiny bird. Big benefits.

Perfect for your small homestead.

Address

Elizabethton, TN
37643

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 8pm
Tuesday 7am - 8pm
Wednesday 7am - 8pm
Thursday 7am - 8pm
Friday 7am - 8pm
Saturday 7am - 8pm

Telephone

(423) 291-9315

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