2024

We're at the Wilmington Farmers Market at Tidal Creek, every other Saturday from 8-1 Come see us for specialty produce, medicinal and culinary herbs and mushrooms, eggs, beeswax candles, and our usual assortment of plants: medicinal herbs, and pollinator-friendly and permaculture-friendly plants.

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Upcoming events

We're honored we'll be back vending plants at the Native Plant Festival on Saturday September 21st.
We'll be offering a nature walk on our farm on Sunday September 22nd.

We'll be hosting a Cherry Bark Harvesting Workshop at our farm on Sunday October 27th.

We’ll be vending plants at The SENC Herbal Conference on November 16, 2024.

Contact us with questions or comments at WildMeadowFarmNC@gmail.com.

 
Our Black Copper Marans hen hatched out 10 chicks on August 17th. The jury is out on whether another hen snuck an egg in there or if the blonde one is a genetic variation. The rooster is a Black Copper Marans too.
All this rain and standing water has brought out the turtles! Spotted turtle, listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, due to habitat loss and poaching. Easter box turtle, listed as vulnerable. It is mostly terr
"The Native Plant Alliance will host the 9th Annual Native Plant Festival September 18-21, 2024 with evening speakers on September 18, 19, and 20 at the New Hanover County Arboretum. On Saturday, September 21st, visitors can shop at our plant ve
We just pulled a new batch of honey (left) and it is so different from the honey we pulled in may (right). As you can see, May's honey was very light and this new batch is much darker and ruddier. May's honey tasted musky and this is more floral. T
The storm brought us 3" of rain in 2 hours!
At the Wilmington Farmers Market until 1PM. We'll be on a break for a few weeks after this market.
At the Wilmington Farmers Market until 1PM!
At the Wilmington Farmers Market until 1PM. Plums this week!
Grateful for this rain! It's been 4 weeks. See you at the market tomorrow!
At the Wilmington Farmers Market until 1PM. Also dont forget about the nature walk tomorrow. Let us know if you plan to come.
It's been too long! Our next nature walk will be on Sunday, June 9th. Let us know if you plan to come!
Farm photo-diary: 2 shots of the garden, sunchokes, zucchini, plums, unripe blueberries, anise hyssop and cascade hops, pomegranate, removed queen cells as part of swarm prevention, beeswax comb with wax moth tunnel damage (and Chaga begging).
 

Guild Planting

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We are fortunate to have many large, old trees on the property. We plan to create permaculture-style guilds around them. Pictured here is a small pecan guild when we first started planting it out last fall (above). It has filled in nicely since then as you can see in the lower picture.

Restorative Agriculture

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In addition to introducing food forest, we will be farming with the more familiar annual crop methods. But our main focus of these garden rows will be on building soil health using techniques such as crop rotation and cover cropping. 

Education

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We are in the process of creating an education food forest in approximately 1/6 of an acre space. The food forest will be adjacent to an outdoor classroom where we plan to teach about guild planting, mushroom cultivation, fiber art projects, and more.

 
 

“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.”

― Bill Mollison