Sunset Farmstead

It’s was such a fun night at the NJNLA Awards dinner. I am deeply honored to have been presented with this award. Thank you for this professional recognition. It means so much!

Trimming Ziza (Golden Alexander) plants in the nursery today. How many caterpillars did we find?? A lot more than we expected this time of year!

We need to trim plants in the nursery so we cover them and protect their roots for the winter since they are in containers above ground. But if this plant is in the landscape, leave it be! There may still be caterpillars feeding on it that will turn into Swallowtail butterflies!

❤️nature

We were proud to sponsor the Bordentown Hometown Hero Foundation’s Challenge Run this past weekend which raised $5,000 to support local veterans suffering from PTS!

Our great friends, had a table set up to spread the word on planting native plants and attracting pollinators and other beneficial insects!

It was a great weekend of doing good and helping our local community on multiple levels.

This Monarch chrysalis was just laying in the driveway last Friday. It must have been on the tractor or a wagon and when we moved the vehicle, the chrysalis fell off.

So we decided to hang it in the office and see if a butterfly emerges. I’ll be honest, I didn’t have a lot of hope this time.

But when we came in yesterday, the Monarch butterfly had emerged and was on the floor mat below the place where the chrysalis hung!!

We let it be and when it started to make its way to the door, we helped it along by letting it crawl onto our finger and then bringing it to the plants outside the office.

Welcome to the world little pollinator. Have a safe journey!!

And then a Monarch emerged!!