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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We’re proud members of United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary Network. Check them out, they do great work!

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

 
We're thrilled to be a part of the first ever Southeastern NC Herbal Conference. Hosted this year at @oldriverfarmsnc. We'll be here today from 9-4 with medicinal and native plants, dried herbs and mushrooms, beeswax candles, honey, and turmeric.
We're here at Shelton Herb Farm from 9-4 today. We'll be selling native plants along with a few other vendors. Also we have our t-shirts printed by @sleepy_f at Garage Ink. You can see a list of the plants we brought. Please note many vendors only
REMINDER: the Native Plant Festival is this Saturday! We'll be selling native plants at Shelton Herb Farm on Saturday, Sept 21st from 9-4. We had originally planned to have a nature walk at our place on Sunday the 22nd, but this rain has really made
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!
 

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