Turkey Hill Brook Farm

12/27/2025

Our front garden area is quite messy because I don’t cut perennial plants down to the ground in the fall, but leave them standing for winter bird forage. There’s a whole flock of Juncoes feeding on all these exposed seed stems in this photo!!

05/22/2025

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/spring-ephemeral-flowers

Early spring flowers that soak up the sun and bloom on the forest floor before tree leaves have fully emerged are called spring ephemerals. Using the guide below, you can identify spring ephemerals that grow in Massachusetts and learn about their importance as an early food source for over-wintering...

03/30/2025

Our compost pile was literally smoking today when Rob turned it with the tractor 🔥 🔥

08/14/2023

Folks, I am sharing that we are shutting the nursery down as a business in September. The insurance required to run a farm business has made this endeavor unviable…thank you to all of my lovely plant customers for making it FUN! I will be selling my remaining inventory through September 30, including lots of big blooming perennials and shrubs including the gorgeous shrubby St. Johnswort! https://thbfarm.com/native-plant-nursery

07/03/2023

We will be closed until further notice, due to flooding!

04/17/2023

Our website is open for pre-orders, although a few early birds have already snapped up some of the spring bloomers! We have very limited availability of native Turk’s Cap and Canada Lilies listed this year, plus a variety of native plants important for pollinators and declining species of Bumble Bees! Order now for pickup in May /June at our farm in Spencer MA. We are changing from a retail to a wholesale nursery later in 2023, so this may be your last opportunity to shop for native plants from THB Farm! https://thbfarm.com/native-plant-nursery

01/13/2023

Busy in the new greenhouse these days, winter sowing native plant seeds which need cold stratification, such as Doll's Eyes (Actaea pachypody) and Virginia Spring-beauty (Claytonia virginica). These are both woodland natives that take up to 2 years until they germinate. After that, they take a few more years before they are ready for sale. Growing native plants from seed is a long-term commitment 😀

10/07/2022

Excellent graphic on the right time to collect seeds from native plants.

Harvesting seeds from your native plants, and sharing them with your neighbors and friends, is a great way to create more biodiversity and habitat on a low budget. But always keep in mind: many critters rely on seeds as food, or seed heads as habitat, so always harvest modestly.

09/08/2022

Planting days are here again! Many native plants are just beginning their blooming season now! We have plenty of late blooming natives including blue (and white!) lobelia, cardinal flower, Joe Pye w**d, 3 types of aster, showy goldenrod, horsemint (Monarda punctata), commom boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum), white turtlehead (Chelone glabra) and the astonishing closed blue gentian, with flowers that never quite open. These are all important flowering plants for declining bumble bee species! Plants are on sale for $8.99 (quart), $9.99 (2-quart) and $10.99 (gallon size). Shop online at https://thbfarm.com/native-plant-nursery