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07/27/2024
🌿 Project “Cover the House with Vines” is finally in progress! 🌿
I love wisteria but I know it can be controversial since it’s considered invasive in many areas. But don’t come at me, y’all! I bought this Chinese wisteria plant a few years ago and just now put up the trellis. Back then, I didn’t know there were American non-invasive varieties of wisteria, though I’ve heard they’re harder to find at nurseries. It’s crazy that nurseries even sell invasive plants, but they do. 🤷♀️
Don’t worry—if any escapes the garden, our goats will surely devour it. 🐐
07/27/2024
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07/14/2024
I made a trellis for the side of the house. 🏡 🔨
And it only took me like two months to decide on the pattern and then actually make the time to do it! 😅
Oh the joys of living with ADHD.
Then I went to hang it and there was a wasp nest in the wisteria vines that I made the trellis for.
07/04/2024
Every year I struggle to keep weeds out of my garden beds. I use mulch but weeds just grow right through it. Does that mean my mulch needs to be a lot thicker? Am I doing it wrong or does everyone struggle with weeds? 🌱
05/09/2024
Our Prickly Pear Cactus is blooming and I am in awe 💛 🌵
This flower opened so quickly, in a matter of just over an hour. 🤩
The bees are pretty happy too 🐝
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05/09/2024
My little lemon tree has baby lemons and also new blooms 🍋 🌳 🌸 And my satsuma tree is so covered in little satsumas it’s crazy, especially since it’s never produced very much in the past. 🍊 🌳 I’m excited for citrus season!
05/08/2024
✨Plant dreams.
Pull weeds.
And grow
A happy life. 🌿
08/31/2023
Tonight is August’s second full Moon, a Blue Supermoon. 🌚
When a second Full Moon falls within the same calendar month it is known as a Blue Moon, hence the expression, ‘once in a blue moon’ used to describe a rare event.
This Full Moon is also a “Supermoon.” In fact, it’s the closest Supermoon of 2023. “Supermoon” is a catchy term for what astronomers call “a perigean full Moon” which is when the full Moon happens at or near its closest point to Earth in its oval-shaped orbit.
It’s exceptionally close in Moon miles from Earth (222,043 miles).
This blue supermoon is a time for releasing the past and a chance to detox from any stresses and dramas that have been going on in our lives.
Since it’s bigger and brighter in the sky, the Super Blue Moon is a powerful time to cleanse and charge crystals by the moonlight.
08/26/2023
Flowers around the farm 🌸 🌸🌸
08/15/2023
Just a few of the deliciousness were growing. 🌱 Everything has been going to the animals except the jalapeños I’ve been chopping and freezing for later use. I do hope to make at least one pear crisp before summer is over though.
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06/25/2023
Our Vinca Flowers are blooming! Thanks to for gifting me these transplants from her garden 🌸
Annual vinca (Catharanthus roseus) is a tropical perennial that is grown as an annual in most regions. It has flowers and foliage that resemble impatiens, but rather than being a shade lover, annual vinca is a perfect choice for sunny locations. Also known as Madagascar periwinkle. They are drought tolerant and pest free and come in white and a variety of pinks and lilacs.
06/12/2023
Been working in the garden all day. 🌱
Now time to start doing evening chores (feeding all the animals their dinner)
Happy Sunday y’all! ✌🏻
03/29/2023
Amaryllis blooms 🌹
The name “amaryllis” comes from the Greek word amarysso, meaning “to sparkle.” ✨
The amaryllis is a spring blooming bulb. In my experience they’re easy to grown and low maintenance.
Historically, there has been a bit of confusion regarding the name of the plant. Most amaryllis varieties grown these days are hybrids and not “true amaryllis”; they are instead part of the genus Hippeastrum. True amaryllis are members of the genus amaryllis and are also know as belladonna lilies, despite not being true lilies. With all that being said, both Hippeastrum and amaryllis are part of the amaryllis family, so they’re both considered amaryllis. That wasn’t confusing at all was it? 😋
02/23/2023
✨First rose bloom and bud of the year 🌹 I bet our roses will be extra gorgeous this year because my wonderful parents helped me prune them last month. ✂️
11/18/2022
Crocheted Baby Beanies 👶🏻
Handmade by Summer Sunshine 🌞
These cute little hats are lovingly made by my daughter, Summer. They are super cute and are ideal for easy everyday cold weather wear.
They are lovely and chunky with a nice stretchy rib so they fit snuggly. These two particular hats aren’t available for sale, but she’s taking custom orders! Message us!
Baby Beanie - $8.00
Baby Beanie with ears -$10.00
Can be made in multiple colors and sizes. 🧶
11/06/2022
Please leave the leaves!!! 🍂🍂🍂
Don't chop up pollinators. You may be destroying eggs, caterpillars, and chrysalis along with the leaves. We suggest that leaves in garden beds and lawn edges be left whole. Where space allows, consider creating a leaf pile and allowing it to break down naturally.
Fruit trees are the gift that keeps on giving 🌳🍊🍋🍐🍑🍎
06/02/2022
My inherited stained glass sun-catchers from my Grandmother and a gifted peace lily look even more exquisite in front of my rainbow window film. 🌈🍄🦋🦉🪴
04/22/2022
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Bee Happy Mug and wildflower seeds! 🐝 🌸
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04/20/2022
You have to get your hands dirty if you want to change things. ~ Elena Ferrante
03/24/2022
I've always loved Rollie Pollies...how about you?
02/22/2022
First little root veggie harvest 🥕
🥕 Chantenay Red Core Carrots
🌱 Tokinashi Turnips
02/17/2022
Full moon fire and 1st fire of the year 🔥
02/04/2022
"A neighbor asked me if the caterpillars did damage to my plants, and I told her "This is a new way of gardening. You plant FOR the caterpillars and you want them to eat your plants because that's the only way we'll have more butterflies." I'm not sure my neighbor understood; I could tell it was a completely new concept for her."
Leslie Nelson Inman
Learn how to become a low effort, ecosystem designer of native biodiversity for your local pollinators here at Pollinator Friendly Yards with Leslie, one of the leaders of the pollinator, native plant movement! 🍂🦋🐌🦇🐦🐞🐜🌻🌸🍄
02/02/2022
Our little winter garden 🌿
Baker Creek Heirloom seeds kindly donated and planted by volunteers Casey & Jacob.
🥬 Michihili Chinese Cabbage
🥕 Chantenay Red Core Carrots
🌱 Tokinashi Turnips
🥬 Rocky Top Lettuce Mix
🌱 Early White Vienna Kohlrabi
01/29/2022
"If something is not eating your plants, then your garden is not part of the ecosystem." What does this mean for how we garden?
- Insects only eat the plants to which they are adapted.
- Insects eat plants for a reason (eating plants is part of their life cycle).
- The chain of the ecosystem is that other critters (like birds) eat insects or eat things that eat insects.
Therefore, supporting insects with plants that they can eat is how your garden can be part of the ecosystem. If you want to have butterflies, bees, birds and more to be part of your garden, you have to support the circle of life.
Thanks to Ellen Honeycutt for the graphic and the story.
For I wanted to share Gavin’s fox hole fire, shown here cooking PB&J hobo pies on a few years back. 🔥 Also known as a Dakota fire hole or Dakota fire pit. It’s a valuable wilderness survival aid because it burns fuel more efficiently, producing hotter fires with less wood. It also produces less visible smoke and less light, so it’s great for when you don’t want to be seen. For anyone interested in how they work, I’ve included a little diagram. 🔥 🔥 🔥
12/17/2021
My camellia is blooming for the first time! I got this beauty for Christmas last year from my nephew. 🌸🌸🌸
11/25/2021
I am thankful for all the humans out there trying to save the planet and the animals by leaving animal products off their plates today and every other day. I am also thankful for plants and trees for cleaning our air we breathe. 🌱
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We are a micro farmstead in Calvary, GA and sanctuary to 60+ animals, run by myself, Autumn Skye, and my two animal loving, tree-hugging, home-schooled kids, Gavin (16) and Summer (12). The three of us share in the responsibility of caring for the animals, garden, and honeybees.
Our eclectic menagerie of rescue animals currently includes 8 pot bellied pigs, 30+ chickens, 3 ducks, 2 bunnies and 5 goats. We are home to 11 rescue cats who come and go from the house and barn as they please. We also have 5 dogs, a family of rainbow finches that we took in years ago, 1 mud turtle we took in, 1 gecko, 1 bearded dragon, a yellow bellied slider turtle that we saved and 4 fish that needed a new home, 2 of which bred; and we now have about 85 convict cichlids who need homes. And last but not least, Papaya the Parrot, a Catalina Macaw who rules the roost, literally. All of our animals are treated as family, get lots of free range
of our 10 acre field, come into the house often, are vaccinated and wormed regularly, get fresh fruits and veggies and always lots of LOVE.
We believe wholeheartedly in spaying and neutering; every single animal on our farm is fixed or will soon be fixed with the exception of the chickens, ducks, finches, parrot, fish and turtle. I assure you we'd have them fixed too if we could...especially the roosters and our very fertile fish LOL. We DO NOT use our animals for profit and every animal that comes here has a forever home or is adopted out to an approved forever home. Since 2015, we have found loving homes for 8 other rescue piggies and 5 rescue kittens.
Summer, Gavin and I are all passionate about animal rights and the environment! We live a humane, compassionate and eco-friendly lifestyle and are striving to improve it every single day. We are mostly vegan...in other words we eat eggs from our own very happy, healthy and spoiled, free-range chickens and enjoy some of the honey from our beehive. We do not consume meat and dairy or store bought eggs and honey. We do our best to not harm or contribute to the harming of other living beings. We recycle and compost absolutely everything possible, reuse anything we can, and regularly plant new trees on the farm. We have a small organic garden of culinary herbs, veggies, fruit and now medicinal herbs and our garden is expanding continuously and will soon be a permaculture farm. Our garden is home to a beehive and a large worm compost bin.
We believe that every animal deserves respect, compassion, love and LIFE. Our animal sanctuary is currently awaiting its non-profit status and is registered as a non-profit incorporation with the state of GA, Flying Pig Animal Sanctuary at Hippie Chick N Farm, Inc.
Our motto is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rescue
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”
~Jane Goodall
“When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.” ~ A.D. Williams
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
~Margaret Mead
