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Alpenglow Farm

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Food forest, small native & edible plant nursery, no-till gardens & flower farm in NJ 🌱 Silvopasture with babydoll sheep 🐑 🌳🌳Online ordering open!🌳🌳 Bare root plants shipped 📦 Fall 2025: https://alpenglowfarmnj.com/nursery

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · Sep 14

Our fall tree and shrub inventory is now posted! Bare root plants, fruits, nuts, and some of our favorite natives. Ordering open until Nov 1st, plants ship once dormant 🌱🌳 #gardening #foodforest #nativeplants #permaculture #trees #pollinators

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Fall plant sale is live! Shop our bare root plants grown with love.

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 5d

How will we stay warm when the last of the ash trees fall? 🪵

Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 5d

Haha I hear you, anything is better than callery. There must be a planting in our town because seedlings pop up everywhere at our place :/ We’ve been grafting Asian pears on them & the growth is crazy, probably fruit in 1-2 yrs! Works having a tree plant itself & decide where it’s happy I guess.

Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 5d

With regular pruning over the next 200 years you could easily keep them under 100’ 🙃

Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 6d

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 6d

Plant some nut trees this fall! 🌱🌳Bare root trees available for shipping, $6-10 each. Chestnuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, pecans, and yellowhorn
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Four bowls of nuts soaking before seeding, pecans, hazelnuts, walnuts

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 6d

If anything I doubt they will ever try peanut butter again 🥵

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 6d

Yes sleeping inside for now! Daytime attacks happen but less common, esp here they would need to get thru our 6’ deer fence w/ electric, down into a valley towards house & very busy road, then through the sheep’s 4’ electric fence. A lot of risks in daylight, I think they prefer not to be so exposed

Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 6d

Life’s mission to keep them safe 😊

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 6d

We are definitely sleeping better also with our lil team inside for the first time! We keep a close eye on their multiple layers of elec fencing & trail cams but you never know! A little more expensive now supplementing with night hay, which we usually only give them in Dec-March, but worth it :)

Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 6d

We’ve seen a coyote on the trail cam sniffing around our fenceline for the past week, so the lil sheep are sleeping in the barn at night rather than out in the field for the 1st time in their lives. Getting used to the routine. Baited electric fence with peanut butter, hopefully that moves it along

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 7d

Big sunrise, black walnuts piling up, bumbles sleeping in the saffron crocuses, sheep posing with some alpenglow #farm #sunrise #nuts #walnuts #saffron #foodforest #sheep

Four saffron crocuses, one with a bumble butt sticking out

Sheep standing in grass, looking into the distance, a mountain glowing in the background and sunset

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 11d

Sheep have been weathering the storm in the barn munching hay, but gathered outside for some pets this morning 😊 #storm #sheep #babydollsheep #cute #farm #friends

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 11d

Fall stars 🤩 Chokeberries awaiting hungry birds, asters loaded with bees, a nice stand of little bluestem self-seeding in the meadow, and some wintergreen ready to refresh 😁 #nativeplants #meadow #flowers #berries #grass #wildlife #pollinators #gardening

Red chokeberry bush full of red berries in a garden

White-panicle asters with lots of interested little bees

A field of tall dry reddish grass stems, all little bluestem

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 14d

Fall is in the air, first frost tonight, chestnuts are dropping and wary little sheep are getting familiar with their barn again after living out in the field for the past 7 months. #chestnuts #sheep #fall #frost

Two little sheep looking into a small barn door

A chestnut opening up on a branch to expose the brown nut inside

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 19d

American persimmon season is approaching! A beautiful native tree that provides sugary Halloween treats for all while hosting many important species, including the larva of the incredible Luna Moth. We have bare root seedlings available for shipping at alpenglowfarmnj.com/nursery

A persimmon tree beginning to lose leaves, revealing all the little orange fruits on its branches

Persimmon seedlings soaking up the last of the fall sun before going dormant

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 21d

Our chipmunks agree! For those who can’t decide we sell both 😉

Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 21d

Aww didn’t realize, such a cool trait but definitely not ideal when you want diversity in your yard lol

Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 21d

Doesn’t get cuter than Hammy in the fall 🍂💛 #babydollsheep #sheep #love #friends

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 21d

Awesome! Such productive trees 😁

Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 21d

I hear you! We have lots of bottlebrush buckeye that someone planted here long ago (a nut producing Aesculus like horse chestnuts). Beautiful, so many nuts, but not edible :/

Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 21d

We have both straight Chinese chestnuts & hybrids (seedlings from dunstan chestnuts which are American x Chinese)

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 21d

Once they’re on ground it works to just smoosh all of them with your boot, it won’t damage the nuts and is totally hands free. Thick gloves work but if you’re doing a lot you’ll inevitably get some painful pokes. In tall grass helps to catch or collect/move to centralized boot smooshing station

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 21d

Hello all, just a reminder that you will never regret planting a chestnut tree. Still have some for sale at alpenglowfarmnj.com & will gladly answer any questions, we are just as obsessed with talking about trees as we are eating things that fall out of them. 💚🌰🌱🌳

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Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 25d

Haha not so much fencing them in as keeping predators out

Alpenglow Farm @alpenglowfarmnj.bsky.social · 26d

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