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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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See how your garden can attract more Hummingbirds than ever with these simple tips!
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Celebrate Winter with a Tomte
Winter Gnomes or Tomte make cold days so cheery! Read all about these wonderful woodland spirits and how they protect your home & garden…
Scones? Native Plants? Oh my!
Quick before the frosts set in… Let’s have 1 more gathering! Join us this weekend for an End of Season Plant & Bake Sale!
Friday September 30 thru Sunday October 2 here at Lazy Dirt Flower Farm 9am to 3pm…
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.
Autumn is for the ‘Lazy Gardeners’
Have you ever been called ‘lazy gardeners’ from friends and neighbors because in the Autumn you grow native plants? Not madly raking up leaves, mowing, tilling in the garden and cutting down all your plants? Well you are not alone!
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!
Lazy Dirt Flower Farm …
See how not finding native plants made our native flower farm come to be..