CW Native Plant Farm

CW Native Plant Farm The CW Native Plant Farm is a family-owned farm focused on native plants for restoration, environmental sustainability and resiliency in a changing climate.

The farm offers trees, bushes and perennials native to the WNY area.

Most of the time I run in and out of my door oblivious to what is above me. I looked up the other day and found this Lar...
08/31/2026

Most of the time I run in and out of my door oblivious to what is above me. I looked up the other day and found this Large Maple Spanworm Moth Prochoerodes lineola on the ceiling on the back porch.

I wanted to give everyone a heads up on 2027. I’ll be running a monthly educational series at the Audubon library (Amher...
08/28/2026

I wanted to give everyone a heads up on 2027. I’ll be running a monthly educational series at the Audubon library (Amherst NY) next year for 6 mos (or more if it is popular). More details to come. I think it will be the first Wednesday of the month. From 6-7:30 pm.
I will have 3 new presentations on native plant communities across WNY. Charlotte and I will collaborate on them. We will co-present those as well.
Picture of Allegany Monkey flower (one of my favorites)

New, scented, shampoo bars heading to the store this weekend. As I was researching shampoo bars I found yarrow is an exc...
08/27/2026

New, scented, shampoo bars heading to the store this weekend. As I was researching shampoo bars I found yarrow is an excellent plant for hair. Persimmon is also fabulous for hair. Detangles and calms, while yarrow helps with hair growth.
For fine hair - the superfat (that which is left after all the oils/butters are consumed by the lye) is a touch less. Superfat leaves light conditioning in the hair. Fine hair can feel greasy if there is too much superfat.
For oily hair, activated charcoal helps redistribute the oils. As I was testing these bars I found my hair loves the shampoo bar for oily hair. I am Sicilian (in part) so my hair is dry but I didn’t imagine how well activated charcoal oily worked in my hair.
For dry hair the shampoo bar has tallow in it to leave moisture in the hair without making it greasy.
With any lye based shampoo bar, vinegar rinses are important if you live in hard water communities. My hair loves it but many of my clients don’t use a vinegar rinse. One of my clients emailed me to say my shampoo bars are better than many commercially available. “No one does shampoo like you do” ❤️

Running foamflower. I used to find cultivated coral bells stunning. The native it was cultivated from was not as strikin...
08/23/2026

Running foamflower. I used to find cultivated coral bells stunning. The native it was cultivated from was not as striking. If I had found foamflower I would not have looked at coral bells twice.
Foamflower has flowers that look like twinkling lights. They look like tiny Christmas trees. Both spread pretty happily in dry shade.

Address

12288 Tonawanda Creek Road
Akron, NY
14001

Opening Hours

Thursday 4pm - 8pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

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+17164172626

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