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Moonstruck Meadows
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Gardening, chicken wrangling, herbal medicine, & handmade goods.

Embracing imperfectionism, reciprocity, ecology, & land stewardship. Bit witchy. Woke geriatric millennial.
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happy national black cat day 🖤

#witchsky #catlady #nationalblackcatday
A collage of 6 different photos of a black cat named Willow, being perfextly adorable.
October 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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October raspberries just hit differently 💜

🌱 #gardeningfeed #zone7a #localonly #smallfarmlife #farmstead #yardfarm #gardener #greenwitch
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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Been a hot minute since I've shared a garden update here; our schedules have been maxed out & we've been riding that ragged edge of total burnout. Thankfully the cool crisp Autumn air has finally arrived, & we're staying busy with fall chores. & October is one of my absolute favorite things 🍁🍂
The view down the central path of raised garden beds. Most of the beds have buckwheat cover crop poking up through a layer of straw. Marigolds still bloom, and green bean plants hang on even though some leaves are brown & wilted from the first frost. A wicker basket, ceramic bowls, and large rubber bucket are filled with today's pepper & green bean harvests. Some chicken friends can be seen in the background, wandering around their run. 2 raised beds with green buckwheat poking up through a layer of straw are in the foreground. The neighboring bed has broccoli & cabbage growing happily under insect netting. In the background is another row of beds with blooming calendula & buckwheat. A bed of thriving calendula flowers, blooming in shades of golden yellow to pinky-peach
October 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The wheel of the year is a-turnin'

🌱 #gardeningfeed #localonly #zone7a #gardensky #smallfarmlife #veggiegardening #raisedbedgardening #herbalist #greenwitch #lughnasadh #lammas #witchsky
Looking down the central path in a raised bed garden setup. Green healthy vegetable plants line the walkway & Cover the arched trellises. A long, stretched shadow of a middle-aged woman leaning on the gate door can be seen up the mulched pathway. Text at the top reads "when it's the 3rd of August, & you are acutely aware that the sun's angle is moving from Summer to Autumn"
August 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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The first herb bundles of the year 🌱 garden sage, lavender, thyme, chamomile, & echinacea. My living room smells fabulous 😊

#localonly #smallfarmlife #greenwitch #witchsky #herbalist #crafty
Three bundles of fresh, colorful herbs, bound tightly together with natural twine string.
July 31, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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File Under: NSFW produce 😳

🌱 #localonly #veggiegardening #freshfromthegarden #kindofabigdill #dayum
Two cucumbers that fused together and grew to look quite...phallic.
July 21, 2025 at 10:59 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 🌱💚

#localonly #zone7a #smallfarmlife #yardfarm #farmstead #gardening #veggiegardening #herbalist #greenwitch
July 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Bountiful, albeit sweaty, harvest today out in the sauna that is summertime in July in SE PA. That's half of the first planting of carrots & the full bed of Purple Pehoski garlic. Hot fun in the summertime 🌱

#localonly #zone7a #smallfarmlife #farmstead #gardensky #harvest #sosweaty
A large wicker harvest basket sits on n a green lawn of grass & clover. It is filled with bright orange carrots with their green leafy tops all still attached. A large wicker basket sits on a lawn of green grass & clover. The basket is filled with freshly harvested garlic, with long roots sticking out from the bottom of the bulbs, and long green leaves growing out of the tops. The dirt-covered hand of a middle-aged white lady grips a huge bulb of garlic.
July 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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On today's episode of "harvest quick before the storms roll in", we've got Comfrey, pickling cukes, snap peas, zucchini, Echinacea & Chamomile 🌱

#localonly #gardensky #veggiegardening #harvest #smallfarmlife #herbalmedicine #greenwitch #witchsky
A wooden & wire mesh harvest basket filled with (from bottom to top): comfrey leaves, pickling cucumbers, sugar snap peas, Echinacea flowers, and 2 zucchini Looking into the bottom of a red plastic blueberry rake, where a pile of freshly-harvested chamomile flower heads await the drying racks.
July 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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A painting depicting a young woman with a flower crown, dark hair, a white blouse & dark gray long skirt looking at a horned black Satyr (half goat & half man) who is seated on a fence and wearing a gray coat, with one hand behind his back holding a white lily flower. His left hand is holding her right hand, and he looks to be leaning in to kiss her hand. The text over the girl says "Me", and the text over the Satyr says "That witchy shit".
July 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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On this morning's chore list was black raspberry picking. Most made it to the farm stand, several were taste-tested for quality control, and others were accidentally smashed in the process. Worth it! 🌱

#localonly #smallfarmlife #farmstead #harvest #gardensky #greenwitch #witchsky
The open palm of a middle-aged white lady's right hand, with the tips of the thumb, index, middle, and ring fingers (plus a small splotch on the palm itself) stained deep maroon with black raspberry juice. The background is a green lawn. 6 tan-color natural fiber berry containers are filled with black raspberries & sitting on a wooden countertop.
June 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Pulled the first 5 mondo cabbages from the gardens & made a whooole buncha kraut!
Pint-sized wide mouth glass ball jars crammed with freshly mixed shredded cabbage & salt. Brightly-colored silicone "burp" lids cover the jars.
June 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Pulled the first 5 humongo cabbages of the season today, then got right to work channeling my Polish ancestors & making the pure magick that is homemade sauerkraut. 11 jars of the goooood stuff, now fermenting happily in the cellar!

🌱 #localonly #smallfarmlife #farmstead #fermenting #witchsky
On a patch of green grass sit 5 giant heads of green cabbage, freshly pulled from the garden beds, each with huge green outer leaves. A bamboo cutting board has a chef's knife with a black handle sitting on it, with a few flecks of green cabbage shreds on the blade. Behind the knife is a small pile of shredded green cabbage, surrounded by larger chunks of the cabbage head that are waiting to be sliced. Several pint-sized wide mouth glass Ball canning jars sit on a cream, gray & black flecked granite countertop. The jars are 3/4 full of the shredded cabbage & salt blend of a sauerkraut recipe. The cabbage is weighed down with glass weights, and the jars have brightly-colored (pink, green, blue, or yellow) silicone "burp" lids that allow the fermenting cabbage to off-gas.
June 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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It's National Pollinator Week, friends 🐝 🦋 🐦 and we're spreading the love for these amazing allys by planting native flowers and singing to them (however off-key we may be) to let them know they're appreciated 💚🌱

#pollinators #localonly #smallfarmlife #witchsky #greenwitch #nature
A fully open yellow cucumber flower surrounded by green vines and leaves. Resting right in the center of the flower, legs splayed out to their side, is a black & yellow honeybee. A stalk of vibrant purple flowers of a Salvia plant, surrounded by its green leaves. A busy honeybee has its head inside one of the flowers, its legs covered in collected pollen. A black & white Mason Wasp hovers over a white flower bud of a raspberry plant. The green stems and leaves are im the background of the photo, and are out of focus.
June 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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...and some chickens, for good measure
A look inside an enclosed chicken run with brown wood chips covering the ground & about a dozen chickens wandering around, pecking at leafy greens that were tossed into them as snacks. The chickens range from black, to orange, olden, deep red, white, and orange-white mix. A deep red coop splattered with mud is in the background.
June 16, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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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 💚 🌱

#localonly #zone7a #smallfarmlife #yardfarm #gardensky #veggiegardening #farmstead #witchsky #herbalist
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 🌱

#localonly #zone7a #gardening #smallfarmlife #farmstead #witchsky #ecosystem #landsteward
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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Just some snaps from around the property where we live that make me feel some sort of spritely way. It's just awesome outside 🌱

#localonly #zone7a #smallfarmlife #witchsky #nature #woodswalk #magical
A massive oak tree stands at the center of the photo, amidst lush greenery of the surrounding forest. There is a wide opening running vertically up the trunk of the oak, starting just above the roots and stretching well over 20 feet up the tree. At the bottom, you can see where the opening actually goes all the way through the trunk of the tree, and you can peer through and see the woods behind it. A close-up of a white daisy flower in full bloom, with a golden-yellow center of florets. A long, slender tan & black Goldenrod Soldier Beetle stands on the florets, just being an awesome garden friend.
May 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The rain persists, but so do we 🌧

I'll take the liquid sunshine, as we're creeping ever closer to making up for last year's severe drought. Plus, i think there's something just quietly magical happening in the gardens amidst the droplets
A couple of blooming Siberian Iris flowers, with vibrant purple petals that have an intricate pattern of maroon, bronze, and white bursting from the center of the plant. The brilliant purple color pops out against a backdrop of equally vibrant green stems & leaves of surrounding plants. Everything is covered in delicate water droplets from a day of rain. A close up of sevwral thin, arching green leaves of the Siberian Iris plant. On each leaf are several delicate water droplets of various sizes, looking like little glass globes gently settled on the leaves.
May 28, 2025 at 10:44 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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Started this Milkweed from seed 2 years ago, and it is *finally* coming in strong this spring and OMG A VISITOR 😭🧡

🌱 #gardening #localonly #zone7a #nativeplants #smallfarmlife #monarch #milkweed #herbalist #witchsky
A Monarch butterfly sits on a green leaf of a Milkweed plant
May 13, 2025 at 2:05 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 🌱

#nematodes #yardfarm #gardener #farmstead #localonly #zone7a #veggiegardening #herbalist #regenerative
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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Ooooh, wait, my favorite song is on
May 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Springtime has its full & complete grasp on me; I'm basically breathing dirt and sunshine.

Until these spring days give way to the oppressive 95-degree-with-humidity-sent-straight-from-the-depths-of-hell days of summer, you'll find me outside somewhere; just follow the smell of my dirt perfume 🌱
The two hands of a middle-aged white lady, palms up and fingers gently curled in to show all of the dirt accumulated on the palms, fingers, cuticles, and fingernails from a morning of gardening. A text at the top of the photoo quotes Margaret Atwood, saying "in the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
May 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM