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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Something new for me this year: I let a few of my small fall cabbages overwinter, so that they'd go to flower this year & I can collect them seeeeeds. So far, so good! 🌱 #localonly #zone7a #smallfarmlife #veggiegardening #seedsaving

A green cabbage growing in brown soil. Its leaves are spread open, rather than in a typical tight cabbage head. In the center, a tiny cluster of flower heads are just beginning to show.

A raised bed garden with gray gravel walking paths. The garden bed in the center of the photo has several white plastic arches attached to it, which are holding a fine mesh white fabric draped over the whole bed, to protect the cabbages from destructive cabbage moths.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Peas & Strawbs remain unscathed from the frosty temps, but the taters have a wee tinge of frostbite. Nothing they can't bounce back from, but if we can kindly be done with the freezing night temps, that'd be great 🌱 #localonly #smallfarmlife #veggiegardening #freakinfrost

A row of green peas sprouting from brown soil in a raised bed box, showing no signs of being affected by last night's frost

A strawberry plant's green leaves and white flowers surrounded by straw mulch. The plant is healthy & was not damaged by last night's frost.

Little young potato plants just a few inches tall, in a bed of soil with some straw. The green leaves curled in on themselves, and have a light coating of frost on them where the bedsheets that were covering them got wet with evening dew, then froze.

Green grass and flowering ground ivy all covered in a coating of white frost.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We've amassed quite a collection of old sheets, blankets, and tablecloths over the years that, in their retirement, have become both painting dropcloths & blankies for wee babes in unpredictable April weather 🌱 #localonly #veggiegardening #smallfarmlife #frostwarning #friggincold

A raised bed garden box has a few bedsheets gently covering the pea & potato sprouts from an overnight frost warning.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

✢ 𝔼𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕤 ✢ An appreciation post for those things of beauty which are short-lived by their nature, that force us to be mindful in seeking them out, and to stop and simply enjoy their enchantment 🌱 #localonly #gardensky #bloomscrolling #greenwitch #ephemeral #natureisawesome

Close-up of a Virginia Bluebell plant growing in the dappled sun of the woods. Its pink & purple blooms dangle like little delicate bells above it's lush green leaves.

A swath of Virginia Bluebell plants, growing amidst the brown leaves of a wooded area in early spring. The sun peers through the trees of the surrounding forest, streaming rays of light between the branches.

The bright, vibrant green leaves of wild Ramps growing up from a bed of brown leaves & branches in a forest floor.

A vibrant rainbow arcs over a treeline, it's colors appearing all the more brilliant due to the dark grey clouds behind them. A very faint 2nd rainbow can be seen above the bright rainbow, near the top-right corner of the photo.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

If there's one thing about working for an accounting firm during tax season, it's that I will do a bunch of stuff & take a bunch of pics, but not upload a single fraggin thing til post-4/15 🫠 Time to play catchup 🌱 #localonly #springtime #gardens #smallfarmlife #greenwitch #imgoodatthings

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

It’s sad that this is the reality.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Spent the first taste of springtime-type temps of 2026 in the greenhouse, both stewing over the latest fresh hell that is the news today, and embracing the tradition of spring cleaning in preparation of starting fresh new life 🌱 #localonly #zone7a #smallfarmlife #greenwitch

A 3-tier metal & wire shelving system, being prepared for seed starting. 2 shelves have plastic sheeting covering them, and LED plant lights lay on the shelves, waiting to be set up. The windows behind the shelving unit look out to bright blue skies & plenty of sunshine.

An orange & white cat lays on a water-catchment tray on a shelf inside the small metal greenhouse that will be used for seed starting. He makes himself at home, cozied in the warm sunlight.

Stacks of black plastic plant pots sit on a clean stainless steel countertop, waiting to go into a hot, sudsy bath to be cleaned prior to being used this season.

Black plastic plant pots, upside down on a white towel, drip drying after being washed.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Hubs hooked me up with a custom snow remover for the hoop house (duck taped a push broom to an extension pole). Worked like a charm! 🌱 #localonly #smallfarmlife #gardensky #snowday #witchsky #greenwitch

Photo of a hand in a knit winter glove holding a very long pole with a wide push broom head on the end. The ground all around is covered in snow.

Photo of the entrance end of a hoop house (AKA polytunnel) surrounded by a thick blanket of snow and snow still falling heavily from the sky. There is no snow piled on top of the hoop house, however, because it was all removed with the extension pole broom.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there A-telling me I got to beware I think it's time we stop Children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

All gardeners eventually become either scientists or witches.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Yes, a worship service is sacred. So is the image of God in your immigrant neighbor. So is the image of God being dragged from his home in his underwear on a snowy day. So was the image of God that bled out for 8 minutes while being refused medical care.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I am one of those folks who, in January, is in no rush for winter to end. I appreciate & embrace the cold & the dark, and let hibernation mode fully have me. Plus the snow is just so dang pretty. I'll be singing a different tune come March 1st, but for today, winter is a welcome friend.

A picture of a Rosemary bush in an outdoor garden, covered in several inches of white, fluffy snow. Only the very top branches of the plant can be seen poking out of the snow. Text on the photo reads: "Stillness is the flower of winter; all hope waits beneath a blanket of white." A quote by John Muir

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Remember, it's only technically Orwellian if it's from the Orwell region of England, otherwise it's just sparkling authoritarianism

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Propagation Station™️ set up on the kitchen table, ready to rescue some overgrown succulents, while 3+ inches of snow is piling up around the farmstead. 🌱 #localonly #smallfarmlife #gardensky #snowday #plantlady #greenwitch #witchsky

A variety of overgrown, messy potted succulents and houseplants sit on a blue tarp covering a table, waiting to be cleaned up & propagated.

4 tall evergreen trees stand together across from a snow-covered clearing, with their limbs gently weigned down by the 3 inches of white snow clinging to them.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Mushroom spore landing in my lungs: I eat? My immune system: no not right now he’s still alive Mushroom spore: ok i wait

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Strange men wearing masks shooting citizens is no basis for a system of government.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

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

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

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

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

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.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Ah, July - the season of preserving our harvests. AKA: my cellar smells like dehydrating garlic scapes & cabbage farts. 🌱 #localonly #zone7a #smallfarmlife #gardening #fermenting #kraut #veggiegardening #goodstank #greenwitch #witchsky

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 03/07/2025

The evil that men do lives after them

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

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.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The problem we are facing in this nation is very simple: we've kept God out of public school. We placed garlic at every school window, sprinkled holy water on the threshold, when God tried to enter we held up a crucifix as he hissed at us oh wait that's not God that's a vampire

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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.

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 29/05/2025

We know nothing beyond science fiction about "terraforming" another planet. 🚀 OTOH we have knowledge spanning millennia, geographies, and diverse cultures about caring for our already-"terraformed" planet. 🌎 Look at the wonder around you, wherever you are, and think about how you can protect it. 🪷

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

ME AT 7:30: gonna be a good day today! I can feel it! Gonna ride this positivity wave all the way to the bank! Nothing but deep chest breaths and gratitude today! Yes, sir! Nothing but… ME AT 7:33 READING THE NEWS: this motherf…

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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.

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

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

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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

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Alexis Nikole 🌻 @blackforager.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

All the homies hate bradford pears

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Moonstruck Meadows @moonstruckmeadows.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

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.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Somehow, Trump has declared that we’re under numerous national emergencies from the Southern Border Emergency to the Energy Emergency, Trade Emergency, Public Lands Emergency, and Immigration Enforcement Emergency. Yet these crises seem so “urgent” that he finds time to golf every weekend. Odd.

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