The Feral Field

Hello, Bluesky! We’re looking to connect with our Brighton, MI neighbors & fellow farmers in the Mitten. Are any of you out there?

Just a few of the florals I made this week (that are currently for sale at the farm stand) alongside the last of the ground cherries and freshly roasted coffee.

Soon to be planted: Icoon, Palmyra, Sunset Tropical, Negrita Double, Silver Cloud, & Katinka. 🌷

RIP Yayoi Kusama—thanks for being an inspiration✨🌻✨

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COSMOS! These are “Fizzy White.” 🤍

Yum. Yay. Huzzah

Lost in the horsemint.

Detail shots of some of today’s bouquets. I sometimes find that when I zoom in I can better capture the essence of the whole. ✨💐✨

HAVE COFFEE, WILL SHIP! Just added to the website/farm stand: our first ever whole bean blend, roasted by Brighton Coffeehouse but available exclusively from The Feral Field! Order online: theferalfield.com/shop/ols/pro...

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Old folklore says the thorns of wild roses are fairy ladders, tiny steps that help the Little Folk climb, swing, and travel from place to place. Next time you pass a briar, look closely, for you may catch sight of a fairy slipping away on a thorn-tipped stair. #RoseWednesday

My favorite animal? Quite possibly. A snowberry clearwing “hummingbird” moth visiting statice in my cutting garden today.

Excited about my cute new mini fridge for the farm stand 🤩

Shallots! I love them for their complex flavor. We’ll have some available at our farm stand after they’re done curing. #food #farming #michigan

Phlox! (“Cherry Caramel”) #flowers #farming

Albino raccoon! So neat to see. At first I thought I saw a cat way up in the big box elder tree that I look out at through our kitchen window. Then I thought it was an opossum. Then I zoomed in… Maybe this is who has been digging up all of the turtle eggs around our yard.

My fennel brings all the cats to the yard (black swallowtail bebes)

Today is first cucumber beetle day & first tarnished plant bug day. Caught the latter (they’re fast) & smashed it with glee #sorrynotsorry

Today all 3 families of Canada geese that are nesting in our yard visited the vineyard at the same time 🥹

Special order for today 💗

Pansy-monium #flowers

Our first on-farm concert was a success. Here’s to many more! #music #flowers

Ranunculus among us 😍 Hoping to have more than ever before this year!

Mother Nature said yellow is the color of the day! Spotted this Northern yellow warbler at Squiers Preserve in Chelsea. The yellow flowers are some kind of buttercup. It was wet and I didn’t get close enough to ID.

Farm stand beauty.

Walked out this morning to cut some branches, said hello to the muskrat, the gold finch, the red-bellied woodpecker, gave thanks for this life—

The #tulips are almost done, but we’re enjoying them in all of their stages.

Soon I’ll have more than I know what to do with.

Opened the farm stand up for biz yesterday. Currently have tulips coming out of my ears #flowers #farming

Removed the flowers from my rhubarb so that it would put more energy into stalks, made a weird thing. #isthisikebana ? #flowers #floristsky #art

Today’s #bird visitors #birds #birding

Just look at this gorgeous mama 😍 Still working on my ID. Is she a brown belted? A rusty-patched? If you know, let me know #bee #bumblebee #pollinators

We live right next to a marsh, so are surrounded by amphibian song. Heard the first toads today. I love their little trills! m.youtube.com/watch?v=A2F2...

I’ve decided that I’ll use this account as a log for when I see “firsts”—as in first of the season. I’m in Southeast Michigan. Today: first bumblebee (actually saw several)! Also saw the first butterfly. #spring

The red-winged blackbirds have officially returned to #Michigan !#spring #itshappening 🌱

What I’m workin’ with today. 😍Wrapped bouquets & Mason jar arrangements will be heading to Simply Fresh Market in Brighton tomorrow morning. 💗

Happy #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday to all who celebrate.

Seed inventory/organization begins, later than intended, as usual. 😅

1st-2nd February is Imbolc, a Gaelic festival celebrating the impending lambing season and the birth of new life. A Scottish legend tells that the arrival of snowdrops infuriates Beira, Queen of Winter, so she brings frost and snow as she battles to keep her hold. #FolkloreSunday

I didn’t think I could love bees any more than I already do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s...

I don’t think I ever shared a photo of our new farm stand here! Here’s a pic of it from last week, before the first snowfall. The stand was both constructed & painted by Lansing, MI artist Tom Phillips.

I always take a pic of the season’s first handful of cherry tomatoes, which this year came on 8/20. (Late!) They’re just not ripening, & other people have been telling me theirs aren’t either. Sure, my toms got early blight & the deer have cropped them a few times, but… www.mlive.com/news/grand-r...

Let us remember that it is Earth who gives us life -- and that this time of delusional excess is soon coming to an end.