Sibling Farm

Fruit trees, medicinal herbs & your granny's favorite veggies in Stokes County NC

12/08/2025

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10/07/2025

Monarch emerged from a chrysalis on the lip of a pot of aloe sometime today so the milk crate in the barn chrysalis will be the last to pop out

Been equal parts thrilling and stressful trying to track successful 'hatchings' when these sweet babes decide to do the most fascinating transmogrifying process in the world in the most bonkers locations

09/14/2025

September is for fruits

(and ponds and dogs and creeks and spiderwebs and seeds and chrysalises on milk crates and golf carts and sleepovers and sunlight and making hand hearts and heart eyes and matching your outfit to the book you're reading)

08/14/2025

Not the only one lovin' on these zinnias🦋🫰

08/11/2025

Wet Hot American (Plum) Summer🍒

Prunus americana trees grown from wild stock and planted back in Spring 2021 are having their first full yield

I don't typically recommend them in a standard orchard setting because they have a propensity towards suckering and even becoming weeds if unmanaged, but their vigor, semi-tart flavor, and sheer abundance of fruit is astounding. They've been well worth experimenting with the past few years

The fruit does get a li'l bit larger than this normally, but getting covid back in March really goofed my early Spring bloom maintenance capacity and I never got around to thinning them

One tree in particular has EXCEPTIONAL plum curculio resistance so holler this winter if you want some scions💞♻️

08/08/2025

She doesn't even know it's her birthday🎂🦴

06/30/2025

🌼June in the meadow🌼

Species list:
Firewheel
Rudbeckia (multiple species)
Wild Bergamot (multiple species)
Passionflower (aka Maypop💞)
Dwarf St Johns Wort
Queen Anne's Lace
Coreopsis (multiple species)
Bachelor Button
Phlox
Fleabane
Daisy
Knappweed
Upright Prairie Coneflower
O***m Poppy
Chamomile

(Last two are from Old Salem in the spot where I dump my shoes out)

06/21/2025

Yesterday marks five years since I moved out to the farm🎂☀️♋

Me and the land here have definitely left some marks on one another

First pic from today's till for the last big planting in orchard one of the year. Second pic is orchard one's first-ever till in March 2021 (you can see the baby trees if you squint)

06/08/2025

🦎Master Naturalist recap: Blue Ridge and Reynolda🦎
(swipe through for a terrible pic of me w a very cute slimy salamander)

Having finished the Piedmont MN training program yesterday, I'm so proud and also so keenly aware how much I'm going to miss having outdoor excursions every other weekend with a group of some of the most curious, smart, intrepid, and silly folks I've ever had the privilege of meeting.

It's thrilling to know that if I were randomly somewhere in the Piedmont, I could determine my general geographic location as well as the natural history of and human impacts on the landscape, and identify about 117 different species of plant, fungal, insect, mammal, amphibian, reptilian, avian, and aquatic life (I established a personal record yesterday).

I took part in this program to learn the foundations of natural communities, yet I found myself immediately embraced by our budding naturalist community. Thank you to Rebecca Craps, Chris Marsh, Ken Bridle, and Ann Robertson (and mf'ing Matt Perry, social coordinator extraordinaire) for bringing us together and sharing everything with us. And to my cohort and all the other ecological enthusiasts out there: may we never hike a trail within a reasonable time-frame💞

05/31/2025

🌼May in the meadow🌼

1. Flax
2. Lyreleaf sage
3. Carolina geranium
4. Vetch
5. Mock strawberry
6. Daisy
7. Yarrow
8. Mouse-ear chickweed
9. Ragwort
10. High bush blueberry
11. Fleabane
12. Sweet William
13. Blackberry
14. Red clover
15. Bachelor button
16. Bluet
17. Horsenettle
18. Coreopsis

Fascinating to see what natives, ag plants, successionals, and (however frustrating) invasives have been popping up over the past four years now that I've been working on this project. Excited to continue growing along with it.

I'll update y'all again in June!

05/24/2025

🦋6 flats of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) added to the meadow and other areas around the farm🪏

A huge thank you to for awarding me and lots of other land stewards milkweed for their habitat restoration grant this year!

While these plants likely won't bloom this year, they still provide crucial support for monarch butterflies as they're the only host on which eggs are laid, and their poisonous nature helps protect monarch caterpillars from predation. We focus a lot on the blooms and the butterflies, but every plant and every pollinator is important at every stage of its life!

05/18/2025

Plethora of plums

& other misc farm content from this month

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Westfield, NC
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