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Briar Hope Farm

Micro herb farm & nursery of responsibly grown, edible, medicinal & ornamental plants

08/15/2026

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07/26/2026

✨️Golden Tortoise Beetle✨️ The coolest-looking insect damage I've seen lately. And he's eating a morning glory so who cares🤷‍♀️

07/20/2026

Comfrey tea (aka "💩 juice" in our household) is nature's free, potassium-rich, bloom-boosting fertilizer🌸 The manure smell just means it's good😂

06/22/2026

The lisianthus are starting to bloom🥰

06/01/2026

Spent most of May elbow-deep in dirt and shuffling seedlings in & out of the elements, but I did stop occasionally to admire things🩷🌿 Seedling sale starts next Sunday, June 7th😊

05/16/2026

I should be promoting our soon-coming seeding sale, or doing garden prep, or potting-up young plants (or any of the many many things on our chore list) but today we're soaking up the spring. Foraging for cleavers along the Mt. Hope River💚 Thank you for the paddleboard (that I sit on cause my balance is garbage😅)
P.S. Seedling sale late May/early June 🌱🌞😁

12/29/2025

My favorite new (to us) crops of 2025:

1) Higyoku Red Stem Celosia (Celosia argentea): This stunning annual is beautiful in teas and cut arrangements, but my favorite use of this plant is as a living hummingbird feeder. Sadly, I wasn't fast enough with my camera to catch any pics of them, but trust me when I tell you the hummingbirds love this stuff! (And it's much healthier for them than that red sugar syrup)

2) Rosella cherry tomatoes: I'm honestly shocked we got a photo, we ate them so fast. Prolific fruit and we had no problems with pests or disease.

3) Butterfly Pea Flower (Clitoria ternatea): Technically this was new for us in 2024, but this year's yield was much more substantial than in our first year. I love this tea. Photo #5 shows teas (left to right): pure butterfly pea, with passionflower, with honey, and with lemon juice.

4) Lisianthus (Eustoma grandiflorum)! Aka thornless rose. We grew 'Echo Champagne', 'Echo Pink' and 'Echo Blue' and I adore them all. Worth the long seed-to-maturity time!

12/25/2025

Wishing a merry Christmas & a blessed new year to all❤️✨️

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USDA Zone 6a
Ashford, CT
ASHFORD,CT

Website

https://www.briarhopefarm.com/

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