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I’m Melanie~ owner, plant wrangler & pollinator watcher here at Lazy Dirt Wildflower Farm.
This farm blog shares the work of transforming my 210 year old farm into a 4 acre habitat garden, native plant nursery & wildflower farm.
Here’s where you’ll find tips to create your own habitat garden plus learn about conservation, local events, & farm happenings.
In between posts you can find me over on the ‘Gram laughing, hiking & growing native plants for pollinators
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Organize your seed sowing!
Organizing your gardening year is when you know HOW to record all those wonderful moments in the garden! Get a free Seed Sowing Planner too!
And see 3 reasons why we use a paper & pencil for documenting everything from seed sowing to harvesting on our native flower farm.
5 things to do NOW for more butterflies next Spring
Get more butterflies and other pollinators into your garden with these 5 easy tips. Fall gardening ideas to relax and let the garden go.
It’s 12am… do you know where your plants are?
Have you ever lost your plants? How about pulling them up and throwing them on the compost bin? Forgetting where you planted all the plants in the garden after a busy growing season is almost a tradition. But not this year! Read how to label your plants and map your garden so you know where you planted all those plants next year!