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October raspberries just hit differently 💜

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A branch of a raspberry bush, with leaves just starting to yellow, has several ripe red Raspberries clinging to the end. A few clusters of multiple raspberries as they are just beginning to ripening on the branch. A couple of ripe red raspberries can also be seen, as well as lots of green leaves in the background.
October 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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October 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Hubs climbed up onto the roof of the chicken coop to get me this video; a glimpse of our raised veggie & herb beds from above 🌱💚

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July 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I spent this cool, gray, & misty day outside in my gardens - I'd call it a 50/50 split between actual gardening & taking photos of my beauty-full babes 💚 🌱

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A raised bed garden overflowing with big, beautiful, healthy, green cabbages. A raised bed garden box filled with green tomato plants inside a string trellis grid & staked with wooden stakes. A raised bed garden with lush carrot greens in the foreground, followed by rows of smaller, younger carrot plants, cucumbers growing up a trellis on the right-hand side. Beyond the carrots are some marigolds with orange blooms, then some zucchini plants, and Nasturtium plants at the very back. A raised bed garden with the leafy greens of Radishes in the foreground (at various stages of planting & growth, and behind them are large green bushy potato plants.
June 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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My day job is a fully remote position, and I am just such a huge fan of the WFH life. Getting to relocate to my patio to work and listen to the birds sing and chickens ba-gock, does wonders for my mood while cranking out reports.

🌱 #smallfarmlife #farmstead #yardfarm #dayjob #wfh #niceview
A silver and black laptop computer can be seen at the right-hand side of the photo. Beyond that is the wood framing for some patio windows, looking out into a back yard with green grass, raised bed gardens, a poy tunnel with white plastic sheeting over it, a red chicken coop, and a light sky with lots of clouds.
June 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Some of the fabulous friends who share the yardfarm with us 💚 Seeing them (as well as the 'friends' who do more harm than good) is always a welcome reminder that we're all in this ecosystem together 🌱

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A brown dragonfly with a bright yellow stripe running down the side of its body rests on a branch of an apple tree. Its wings are all splayed out and are almost perfectly clear, except for a few large brown blotches at the tips, in the middle, and next to the body. A big, plump Swallowtail caterpillar munches happily on a carrot leaf. It blends into the carrot greenery very well, being green with black stripes & small yellow dots. A tiny bird's nest, no bigger than 2 inches across, made from delicate little pieces of brown grass, sits nestled into the crotch of a few branches in an apple tree. It is well hidden by the green leaves of the apple tree. A Variegated Fritilliary Caterpillar munches on the green leaf of a downy yellow violet plant. The caterpillar has orange and white stripes running down the length of its body, and has black spikes protruding down the entire length of its body.
June 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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May 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Holy busy couple of weeks, y'all - we've been keeping our foot on the gas and just crankin' out the yardfarm chorin'. BUT (she says cautiously) I *think* we're moving to "normal summer garden maintenance phase" now. We even celebrated by just chillin' in the yard today 😎 Lots of pics to share soon🌱
Raised bed gardens surrounded by a tall wire fence sit on green grass with a blue sky above. A red chicken coop & wire run with white tarp roofing sits just beyond the garden beds. The purple flowers of a blooming garden sage plant. The drooping purple flowers on a Comfrey plant. Some chickens in their run, on a fresh bed of maple wood chips
May 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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A lovely string of gray, rainy spring days, you say? Why, yes, I'll make the very most of it, thankyewverymuch 🌱

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A plastic packet filled with a cream-colored-looking powder on top of a printed brochure with the words Beneficial Nematodes on it.
May 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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May 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Made this reel for IG a couple years ago, and now with the dandelions covering our yard with their happy yellow inflorescense, all I can think about is another lil jar of jelly 🌼

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April 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒕

Watching the teeny teenagers scope out their new digs, and then finding a pile of perfectly pastel beauts from the big gals just goes right ahead & brightens my day 🌞

#chickensky #backyardchickens #yardfarm #farmstead #smallfarmlife
A small enclosed chicken run made from wood and metal wire sits on a fresh patch of green grass. Inside the run 9 orangey-tan Buff Orpington chickens and 1 silvery-gray Lavender Orpington chicken walk about and peck at the blades of grass. A bed of straw lays inside a wooden nesting box. Laying on top of the straw are 6 chicken eggs of various colors: 2 brown, 1 beige, 1 pale pink, 1 pale blue, and 1 pale olive green.
April 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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#localonly #zone7a #herbalist #yardfarm #plantfriend #natureisawesome
April 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Welp. Taters have sprouted
😬😅

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A terra cotta tray holds several seed potatoes that have been cut apart for planting. Each potato piece has one or two long sprouts shooting out of its sides.
April 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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A handy reference as all our friends (not you, yellow jacket) wake up again 🐝 💛

#gardening #yardfarm #bees #zone7a #localonly #nativeplants #farmstead #smallfarmlife
An info graphic titled "A Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things" has images of various flying insects that are black & yellow striped. Under each insect is a short list of characteristics of that insect. Most are beneficial insects that don't want to harm or sting people, except for the yellow jacket, who is listed as "just a jerk".
March 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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BIG ol' day of chorin' on the yardfarm today. We sat down & made a list of all the pre-growing-season things to do & I may or may not have panicked a wee bit 😅 But we got out there & started tackling it all & I am feeling far less panicky 🌱💚

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A man in a gray t-shirt and blue jeans crouches down next to a young Plum tree, and pours water from an orange Home Depot 5-gallon bucket onto the ground by the tree's trunk. A perimeter garden bed has been given a fresh topping of a soil-compost blend, which is all held in by a border of black pvc garden edging. A garden bed topped with brown mulch had 4-inch tall green garlic leaves sticking up through it. A raised bed planting box is filled with soil and there are 4 young Blueberry bushes planted in a row inside it.
March 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Just a few quick snaps from around the yardfarm this weekend. Added gravel around some muddy spots by the coop, cheered on the baby Gotu Kola, and got a buuuunch more seeds going. I am so dang excited we're headed into Spring 🌱💚

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The back of a hydraulic dump trailer with the doors open, holding a large pile of gray gravel just waiting to be dumped onto the gravel ground below. A red chicken coop with white trim is surrounded by a 4-foot wide perimeter of freshly laid gray gravel. A bed of straw covers the soil of planter of Gotu Kola. A small bright green patch of young Gotu Kola shoots emerges from a spot on the lefthand side of the planter. A black plant tag has white lettering that reads "Gotu Kola. Hydrocotyl asiatica" The interior of an indoor greenhouse shelving system. On the top rack is several 6-cell seedling trays filled with soil, each with a white plant tag sticking up that has the plant name written on it. Below there is a second shelf of seed trays with green onion shoots sprouting from them.
March 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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*in soft, high-pitched voice*

Look at the beeeebeeees! 🌱

#localonly #gardening #seelings #yardfarm #herbs #SEPA #Zone7a
A black plastic seedling tray is filled with rich moist soil, and has teeny tiny green chamomile sprouts just starting to poke up through the soil. A white plant tag in the back of the the tray reads "chamomile 2-23"
February 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The 2025 season kicks off in earnest, and 100 seeds were plunked into soil today: Celery, 2 Onion varieties, Shallot, and Echinacea. More to do tomorrow!

Anyone else got seedlings going already? 🌱

#zone7a #garden #gardener #yardfarm #smallfarmlife
A metal shelving unit with wire shelves holds trays of soil into which seeds have just been planted. UV plant lights hang over the trays and provide bright light to the soil. A metal shelving unit with with a plastic greenhouse cover over the entire unit. A close up photo of a plastic seedling tray with lots of small cells full of rich brown soil.
February 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Midwinter on the yardfarm 🌱 Just being outside & seeing the sun shining bright in a clear blue sky was the dose of winter-blues-busting antidepressants I needed. Then these wee daffodil babes caught my eye and also did my heart some good 💚

#gardening #yardfarm #nature #imbolc #Zone7a
3 young yellow-green tender daffodil shoots poking up through brown pine mulch. The sun shining in a clear blue sky, through leafless tree branches of a forest.
February 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Sorting through a big ol' thicc stack of gardening sunshine on this snowy Sunday afternoon. These packets of teeny beauties were delivered just this week from the fine folks at Fedco Seeds 🌱

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Side view of a 4-inch stack of white paper seed envelopes, with an orange tabby cat sniffing the top envelope Top view of a stack of white paper seed envelopes. The top envelope shows the green Fedco Seeds logo, and a description of the seeds for Lemon Balm plants. The top of an orange tabby cat head is seen sniffing the envelopes.
January 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Welcome to the Yardfarm 👋 Hobby farmstead in SE PA (zone 7a) I'm building outside of my 9-5 office gig. Stick around if you're into gardening, nature, chickens, cats, handcrafting things, folk traditions, memes, dry wit & a hefty dose of sarcasm. Bigotry & prejudice not tolerated - be kind, folks 💜
January 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM