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Fiddlehead Holistic Horticultural Services

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Fiddlehead Holistic Horticultural Services

Garden design, installation, and maintenance service specializing in native plants, wildlife and pollinator support, food forests and edible landscaping.

11/29/2021

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10/11/2021

Happy Monday, y'all! You've probably noticed we've been a bit quiet around here, and our September social media break bled into the better part of October. It felt great!

Fiddlehead has been going through a bit of a metamorphosis. Fiddlehead the business and Fiddlehead the farm are individuating. This Instagram will now be dedicated solely to (new name alert) *Fiddlehead Holistic Horticultural Services*, where I, Allie, offer garden design, installation, and maintenance services specializing in native plants, wildlife and pollinator support, food forests and edible landscaping. You can follow for farm updates!

New logo by , a true design wizard!

04/25/2021

Thank you everyone who came and helped w**d the medicinal meadow today! That is indeed a mountain of w**ds you see on the left and it's all thanks to .babie and ! Second photo is the Salsify/Tragopogon porrifolius in bloom, a perennial root vegetable that was sown from seed last year. Many hands make light work, forever grateful for folks who wanna come help us work toward this big vision step by step!

03/29/2021

Goofy greenhouse selfie and updated spring plant sale list in case you missed the story update. May 1st is our goal sale date! We will probably do pre-order a week or two out like last year.

Our process: We start our seeds using the soil blocking method in organic growing medium and leaf compost, and fertilize a couple times using Grow Big liquid fert. Seeds are sourced from , friends and family who gift us seed, and seed we save ourselves when we are able. Lastly, we up-pot the seedlings to 4" plastic pots before selling them to you, the customer! We've considered using biodegradable pots but they fall apart easily, and can hold onto moisture for too long making the seedlings more susceptible to various fatal fungi. We garbage dive to cut down on plastic, but still need to purchase pots to compensate for what we can't collect. So to lessen our input plastic-wise, if you return your plastic pots to us after planting, you'll receive 10% off your next plant sale purchase, either this fall when we do our perennial herbs sale, or next spring!

03/05/2021

POV: You're a dandelion flower who wants to buy the last of our Flaming Dragon fire cider! Did you know this stuff is super helpful for seasonal allergies? And it's almost spring!

In addition to the traditional garlic, ginger, onion, and horseradish, this year's batch contains beets, cayenne pepper, calendula, thyme, elecampane, and honey. What's special about our fire cider? The elecampane, calendula, horseradish, and thyme were all grown here on the farm, and the rest are from awesome fellow local farmers such as and !

Prices:
8 oz $20-25 sliding scale
16 oz $32

Available for porch pickup this Sunday, March 7th 3-5pm. Venmo to claim your bottle! Include your email in the payment notes (make sure to click private) and we will email you our address in North Chesterfield. Thanks y'all!

01/18/2021

We've had a couple people ask if we're doing our annual plant sale this year and the answer is: yes!

The past couple weekends we've been working on getting our new-to-us little greenhouse/germination chamber built and the brick floor layed. There's still a few weekends left of work on this but we're getting there! Thank you for gifting us this incredible treasure!

After that, we'll be working on getting our high tunnel set up, where the baby plants will go once they are big enough and ready to acclimate to the outside world. This is where the funds from our fire cider and plant sales go! Directly to farm improvements and food forest to-dos so we can make this land the best educational space we can. The pandemic has thrown a wrench in our class and workshop plans, but the upside is we can focus more of our energy toward these types of tasks that will make gatherings more exciting and fulfilling down the road.

Expect to see plants available by May 1st. Last year we began selling earlier and experienced a late spring frost, which wiped out all of our personal tomatoes and peppers we had already put in the ground. Since the weather is wacky and usually unpredictable we're hoping to avoid this this upcoming year by just waiting (ugh, waiting!) a bit longer. Patience is a virtue, they say. 🙃 One of the biggest lessons this land has taught us so far! As usual, we will be growing summer vegetable starts, herb starts, and medicinal plant starts.

01/01/2021

Violet's a fan of our Flaming Dragon fire cider! Every year we make a batch of this immune, respiratory, and digestive system supporting tonic to raise funds for farm specific projects. This year we're hoping to raise enough money to finish funding a caterpillar tunnel from !

In addition to the traditional garlic, ginger, onion, and horseradish, this year's batch contains beets, cayenne pepper, calendula, thyme, elecampane, and honey. What's special about our fire cider? The elecampane, calendula, horseradish, and thyme were all grown here on the farm, and the rest are from awesome fellow local farmers such as and
!

Prices:
8 oz $20-25 sliding scale
16 oz $32
32 oz $60

Available for porch pickup this Sunday, January 3rd 2-5pm, and the following Sunday, January 10th 2-5pm. Venmo to claim your bottle! Include your email in the payment notes (make sure to click private) as well as which Sunday you will be picking up and we will email you our address. Thanks y'all!

11/11/2020

Blue Oysters are fruiting! We inoculated white oak logs this past March with spawn from ☁️ We decided on the vertical stacking method. Longer spawn run but longer fruiting life.

10/12/2020

Rainy day dye experiments with ! We dyed with indigo and marigolds we grew on the farm this summer, on various fibers: wool, cotton, linen/cotton blend, and silk. No mordant was used for the indigo, and we did the ice/blender method on wool and cotton, salt rub method on silk. For the marigolds we used alum (aluminum) mordant. We achieved some very pretty sea foams/light blues. I'm thinking harvesting the indigo earlier in the season before it's in full flower will yield deeper aqua blues. Here's to hoping it's safe to have another botanical dye workshop on the farm with Alex next year!

09/29/2020

A few moments from today's client's yard:
Photo #1 Chelone 'Hot Lips' and 'Fireworks' goldenrod
Photo #2 a wet 'n wild corner of Joe Pye, Virginia snakeroot, Verbena bonariensis, evening primrose/sundrops/Oenothera biennis, and reseeding temperate Tulsi
Photo #3 various Cosmos that reseed themselves every year

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