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Wild Urban Farm

A mama-powered backyard urban farm, run on luv & organics, backed by years of professional expertise.
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08/18/2024

Lovin' these late summer colors.

08/04/2024

Seeding time! Pic with fab filter to show the ACTUAL MAGIC of seeds. ✨ All the greens are on their way and I'm very excited. I can NEVER start these in July when I'm supposed to... cuz who can even think about fall planting in July??? But I'm damn proud - these got seeded on August 2nd. 💪💪🌱

07/12/2024

Sun, sun sunflower-y summer. Shine on y'all. ☀️

06/14/2024

Woo! Nothing like a little recognition for gardening ecologically. AKA Wild-ly. Embrace the weeds, the natives, the sticks n logs n rocks, tall grasses, fallen leaves, dead stalks, anything flowering, mixed plantings, and all the living creatures that call your garden home beyond yourself. You will be rewarded in spades and find yourself a co creator in something much bigger than you realize. 🦋 🐝 🪱 🐛

Long live the WILD gardens!

06/10/2024

My snapdragon dreams are coming true! And I'd love to share them with youuuu! DM me with your email address if you'd like to be added to my Bloom Alert email list. I'll reach out when I have bouquets, and you can pick yours up right off my porch in Church Hill. I just *love* sharing this beauty & bounty, and all the joy fresh flowers bring. Thank you for letting me share it with you.

05/09/2024

Saturday is gonna be fun! Come see me at my market debut! Food trucks, awesome local vendors, live music, face paint and of course...PLANTS. I'll have sweet lil succulent pots, bud vases & bouquets, and a lil medicine I've cooked up from our garden for our fam - Boo Boo Balm.

05/02/2024

Since I stayed up much too late collaging my flier, better share it as much as possible... 😆. Thank you for the incredible annual drawings of whimsical plants that bring endless collage inspiration. Oh, and for amazing seeds and rad advocacy work too 💪. See y'all tomorrow.

05/01/2024

Time for sharing my fav pepper : Plant Sale Profile #4: Jimmy Nardello peppers. The Slow Food USA description is apt, but I'll just say that these beat the pants off shish*tos for a sweet frying pepper. We pick them (red or green depending on our patience level), blister them in the cast iron with olive oil and salt, and eat a pile till it's sadly gone. They're named after the 4th child of an Italian family that grew them for generations, and has made a killer fermented sauce with them. What's not to love??? I'll be out at this weekend's plant sale with some, come n try for yourself!

Wild Urban Plant Sale
& Seed Swap
Fri May 3rd 4pm - 7pm
Sat May 4th 8am - 12pm
717 N 32nd St

04/27/2024

All hands (& wheels) on deck!

04/27/2024

We are reaaaadddyyyy! See you tomorrow, friends. C'mon get yo' plant luv on! 🌿 💜

Sunday 4/28
9am to 12pm

04/25/2024

Blooms from today. The color is astounding but this B & W filter just hits deep.

04/25/2024

But. Do you know about COMFREY? Plant Sale Profile #3 is my bestie Comfrey. This is the plant that started it ALL for me. She's a healer like I've never seen. She was my first plant healer and I was astounded at what a poultice of her leaves did for my severe bruising after a car accident. I fell in love with comfrey, then I feel in love with plants, and the rest is herstory. In the garden comfrey is beeautiful for humans and bees alike. She's easy & apt to spread, but is planted specially in gardens & orchards because she helps accumulate nutrients. Look it up! Chop the leaves for nutrient rich mulch, make tea & salve for your cuts & bruises.... and maybe it's ok if you end up with a few more plants coming up?

Comfrey starts, from my yard to yours, out on the sidewalk at this Sunday's Plant Sale. 4/28 9am to 12pm

Link in bio!

What plant started it all for you???

04/23/2024

Celosias! Swoon. Plant Sale Profile #2: Pampas Plume & Ruby Parfait Celosia. They're gorgeous. They're easy. They bloom all summer & into fall. They're great for fresh AND dried arrangements. Or just leave them in your garden for a magical lil plumey puff of whimsy & color. Anyway you use them, they're lil harbingers of joy.

Joy bringing celosia (and more) @ this Sunday's Plant Sale 4/28 9am to 12

04/23/2024

Let's talk about SUNGOLDS. Plant Sale Profile #1 is Sungold Tomatoes and...well what's to say except they are the BEST CHERRY TOMATO EVER. Am I right? So sweet, grows so well, for so long. We plant in April and devour until October y'all. When people say they don't like tomatoes, I pick em a Sungold. Gateway tomatoes, that's what they are. C'mon down, I grew plenty of sweet lil sungold starts for ya - on the sidewalk this Sunday 4/28, 9 to 12.

04/22/2024

Wellllll, this is also what mama farming looks like - when your heart & head is with your human baby who is throwing up all night and you forget about bringing your plant babies in. 😔

Send healing vibes to the human & planties in my care ❤️ Both are resilient, I know it. 💪

04/06/2024

This is what a mama powered farm looks like - greenhouse on the road, pulling up at a playground near you! I work while my babies play (often they 'work' with me tho 😉 ). Everything I do is around them and their needs. Are my farm systems efficient? Hell no! They are constantly shifting to the needs of my lil fam moment by moment, including transplanting at playgrounds and posting about it while they sleep.

I know y'all working from home parents feel me, especially you farming mamas. It's a challenge but it's right where I want to be. 💜 Grateful to do this work and get to be in their presence.

04/02/2024

There's been a lot of setbacks in the greenhouse this spring 😐. BUT, it has only made my love for growing seedlings burn clearer and brighter. 💓 🌿.

And I'm happy to say, YESSSS Virginia, I will be having a Plant Sale this year! Thanks to those of you that have reached out asking for plants, I'm potting up hundreds of lil planty wonders for you right now.

Date(s) TBD but looking hard at the first 2 weekends in May.

03/14/2024

Oh hellebore....you floor me every spring.
Thank you .diana , you hellebore queen.

01/25/2024

Seeding time! Blessings to great growth, successful new trials, and overflowing abundance for you and your garden this year 💜 🌿

Even though I've grown them for years, for some reason, I am overflowing with excitement for a loads of snapdragons this year. What are you excited to grow??

Here in zone 7b I am seeding mostly cool weather flowers and slow growing herbs. Next up I'll get started on my cool weather greens so I can plant them out in February.

11/03/2023

Said goodbyes and gratitudes in the garden last night, as we brought in the final harvest before the first frost hits. Spicy sweet smelling ginger, flowers for fresh bouquets and drying, oodles of tomatoes, bowls of peppers, LOADS of luffas (!), and yes some whimsical curly Snake Bean we are finally going to try. Our post-covid lives are rich and varied, leaving less time for tinkering in the garden, but through what felt like a lot of neglect, still so much abundance. What a worthwhile endeavor.

10/07/2023

And the winner of coolest new plant in the garden this year is....Snake Bean! 🐍 In fact, it was so awesome to have around and watch grow (and decay - to hot orange!), we didn't even eat it. It is supposedly quite yummy - beany and squashy they say, as it is a gord technically. It'll be planted again next year, maybe we'll have the heart to eat it then. The flower is exquisite too, I'll see if I can get a pic for ya. Unfortunately tho the nutty scent can only be in enjoyed in person, but trust me, it's fun. Thx for this fun variety. What's your fav new plant this year??

09/12/2023

Moments from this summer's garden. Everything is senecing now, in the fashion of late summer. But still wild and wonderful and full of tomatoes. Last pic is my absolute FAV summer dish - charred tomatoes and yoghurt a la Chef Ottolenghi. What a dream... ✨ 🍅

08/31/2023

When you have a tomato & egg trade 🍅 🥚 🐔 ❤️

06/10/2023

Luv seeing my lil plant sale babies flourishing and nourishing around town. 💜

11/09/2022

Fall frost might actually be coming for us now, but my flowers have been kicking off with this warmth! Msg me and I'll make you an autumn bouquet full of these beauties for porch pick up on Friday evening. Will they be the last? Only time will tell...

10/20/2022

Who needs some fresh baby GINGER! Just harvested here in Church Hill. Edible fresh leaves and stems are included and are super yummy in tea or sauces or soups. It's grown only organically and freezes super well. I just grate it frozen for what I need throughout the year, then pop it back in the freezer. It's at a 'baby' stage so no need to peel either. Msg me for porch pick up, $10 per half pound (pic is about 1/4 lb for reference.)

06/17/2022

Harvesting 🧄 garlic is a rite of passage each year. A reflection on nearly 3 seasons of growth, and the end of spring every year. It's fall's planted hope to make it through to the warmer weather on the other side of winter. Need I say more? Oh and it is beautiful and delicious to the point of necessity, duh. Proud that I actually tracked my varieties through harvest this year so I can select our favorites. The best bulb of each variety is marked for seed and ready to hang and dry until October when we cycle round and do it all again. What do you love best about this allium extraordinaire? 💜

Shout out to - my best performing variety came from them.

05/16/2022

Got some goodies for ya this week! Email me for the full list and details.

05/07/2022

Plant Sale Profile: SWEET ANNIE! This is the plant I'm most excited about getting to know this year. Smells like chamomile meets sage. Just heavenly. And earthy. It caught my eye because it makes the most beautiful flower crown additions, wreath greenery, and bouquet filler - fresh or dried. It's a mugwort so it's going to get bushy, I'm going to put it in partial shade, where it should be plenty happy, but not too huge. Looking forward to crowning myself with it and having whimsical sweet smelling garlands all over my house. I grew A LOT so come get your 4 pack tomorrow and try it with me!

05/06/2022

See you in the morning !
Unless I figure out how to become tiny before then, in which case I'll be living in these friggin adorable succulents forever. If those plans fail tho, I'll have them out for y'all in the morning.

10 to 12
2314 Jefferson Ave
Union Hill RVA 23223

Seedlings from us & ! Produce from
Coffee, pastries and bouquets too!

Don't let the weather get you down. It's great planting weather 🌿.

If not tomorrow, join us on Mothers Day at Wild Urban Farm

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Mothers Day Sale Plant Profile #4: Stinging Nettle. On Sunday I will be bagging and bundling these fresh superfood greens for you for fresh eating and to hang to dry for tea. I'll be wearing long sleeves and gloves and will still likely get stung, but it's worth it. Why??? Because nettle is one of the most nutritious, mineral rich and medically useful plants out there. The sting is gone when it's blended into soups and smoothies, dried and steeped for tea, or cooked like spinach. It has aided me in allergies, nourished me through pregnancies, fed me in spring before the other greens are ready. I could go on, but trust me (or google it) that this is a plant to know, and your body will thank you. Come grab a bag or a bundle (carefully...haha) to try on Sunday from 10 - 12. #nettle #urticadioica #strongmedicine #deepnourishment #favoriteplant #rvagrown #backyardherbs #herbalmedicine #gardenapothecary