Mountainview Farms

Mountainview Farms Agroforestry, Aquaponics and Hydroponics We prioritize natural and organic practices, as well as the well-being of both plants and animals on your farm.

Educating people in sustainable farming techniques like agroforestry, aquaponics, and hydroponics is crucial for creating a more resilient and environmentally friendly agricultural system. Offering virtual classes is a wonderful way to reach a wider audience and empower more individuals to adopt these practices.

💔 Our sweet Angel has earned her wings. 🪽🐾Thank you to everyone who prayed for Angel, reached out, sent messages, and ke...
09/02/2026

💔 Our sweet Angel has earned her wings. 🪽🐾
Thank you to everyone who prayed for Angel, reached out, sent messages, and kept her in your thoughts. Your prayers and kindness have meant more to me than I can put into words.

Angel fought so hard to stay with us. She was strong, loving, and so very special. She was a protector until the very end, defending her flock and the animals in her care with everything she had. That was Angel, loyal, courageous, and devoted to those she loved.
Sadly, her injuries were too severe, and she passed away.

My heart is broken. 💔 She was only 4½ years old and had so much more life to live. I will never understand why this happened, but I am grateful for every moment I was blessed to have with her.

Run free, sweet Angel. 🌈🐾 You were loved beyond measure, and you will never be forgotten. Until we meet again. ❤️🪽

Thank you all for loving and praying for my girl. 🙏❤️

***Update***Thank you, everyone, for your prayers, love, and kind words for Angel. Sadly, she passed away due to the sev...
09/01/2026

***Update***

Thank you, everyone, for your prayers, love, and kind words for Angel. Sadly, she passed away due to the severe injuries she sustained.

Our hearts are absolutely broken. Angel was deeply loved, and we are grateful for every prayer and kind thought you sent her way. Please continue to keep us in your prayers as we grieve the loss of our sweet girl. 🐾💔
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Please pray for Angel. She was brutally attacked by a pack of dogs yesterday and is currently in critical condition at the vet. She has sustained severe injuries, and we don’t know if she’s going to make it. Please pray that she has the strength to pull through. 🙏❤️

Great Pyrenees are fierce protectors. They are loyal, courageous, and will put themselves between danger and the ones they love—even willing to give their own lives to protect them. Angel has always been that kind of protector. Please keep my girl in your prayers. 🐾🙏❤️

08/25/2026

MONARCH BUTTERFLIES on the move! One of natures most delicate and incredible creature is now on the move for the start of the annual fall migration. These butterflies are often some of the first to take flight ahead of the change in season.

Each fall, North American monarchs travel from their summer breeding grounds to overwintering locations. East of the Rocky Mountains, monarchs travel up to an astonishing 3,000 miles to central Mexico.

Decreasing day length and temperatures, along with aging milkweed and fewer nectar sources trigger a change in monarchs. Starting in late Summer, from across the eastern U.S. and southern Canada, monarchs initially start to funnel toward Mexico in search of the overwintering grounds where they have never been before.

Along the way, they face many obstacles, which can include extreme weather events, predation, collisions with vehicles, insecticides, parasites, and limited nectar availability to fuel their flight The timing of migration is another factor that may influence their migration success. If monarchs leave too late in the year, their flight will not coincide with blooming nectar plants, and the monarchs will have nothing to eat during the migration. Monarchs cannot fly if their body temperature drops below 55 °F, so if the weather cools before they reach the safety of the overwintering sites, they may be unable to continue flying.

Ultimately, millions of Monarch butterflies end up in a specific area in central Mexico for overwintering. Their exact orientation and precision in navigation are not fully understood and remain somewhat a mystery to scientists!

08/18/2026

🌱What is Biochar?

Biochar is a charcoal material made from wood waste and other biomass. When added to soil, it can improve water retention, increase nutrient availability, support crop growth, and store carbon for the long term.

Some potential uses include:
🌾Soil amendments
🚜Improving crop yield
💧Water filtration
🌎Carbon storage

For North Carolina, biochar could create a new market for low-value wood and forestry residues, provide solutions for storm debris cleanup, support forest management, and create new opportunities for the forestry industry and landowners.

Want to learn more? Check out this video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S16DIBjP8KM

08/18/2026

Wild turkeys are one of the biggest conservation wins we've got. Down to 30,000 birds in the 1930s, they're now over 6 million—a result of 50 years of work by hunters, biologists, and state wildlife agencies bringing them back from the edge.

If you've got turkeys in your yard, they're doing real work. They eat beetles, snails, mice, and ticks. They forage in leaf litter for acorns and insects, so leaving the leaves under your oaks actually supports them. Plant oaks, beeches, and hickories if you have space. Slow down on rural roads in May and June when poults cross with their mothers.

What hurts them matters just as much. Outdoor cats k*ll young turkeys. Pesticides collapse the insect populations poults need to survive. Habitat fragmentation breaks up the woodland edges they depend on. And corn feeding disrupts their natural diet.

The recovery isn't finished. They need us to keep making choices that keep their numbers strong.

08/13/2026

That soft, silvery leaf is running two operations at the same time. The woolly surface works like a natural sponge — pressing against a wound, slowing bleeding, holding steady. Meanwhile, compounds deeper in the tissue are doing something else entirely: shutting down bacterial growth before infection even gets a foothold.

Here is where it gets genuinely strange. Lab studies confirmed that lamb's ear extract showed activity against a strain of Staph bacteria that vancomycin cannot reliably stop. Vancomycin is the antibiotic doctors reach for when almost everything else has already failed. It is considered a last resort. And a plant that looks like it belongs in a cottage garden showed up in the same conversation.

This is not folk wisdom dressed up in a lab coat. Researchers tested it. The activity was real. A leaf that looks this gentle quietly holds chemistry that modern medicine is still trying to keep pace with.

Nature built the bandage and the medicine in the same package.

Sources:
Wikipedia
plant description, antimicrobial activity, evapotranspiration/flood prevention)
Gardendesign.com [I47FE]

08/11/2026

Great Pyrenees don’t need a security camera, an alarm system, or a fancy security company. They take their job very seriously. 🐾🤍 Give them a yard, a few trees, and something—anything—to investigate, and suddenly you have a full-time security supervisor working around the clock. Every squirrel is suspicious. Every unfamiliar sound requires immediate investigation. Every person walking past the house must be carefully monitored. And if something moves behind a tree? Well… that is clearly an emergency. 😂🌳
What makes it even funnier is how seriously they take their responsibilities. They’ll stand there for ages, staring into the distance like they’re protecting an entire kingdom, when really they’re probably watching a squirrel three yards away. And if you call them inside? Selective hearing activated. 😆 They know you’re calling. They simply have more important security business to handle.
That’s the Great Pyrenees personality in a nutshell: gentle, loving, independent, and somehow convinced that the entire property belongs to them. They don’t just live in your home—they patrol it, supervise it, inspect it, and make sure everyone knows they are on duty. 🤍🐕‍🦺
And yes, the treats may still be pending… but the security report is always up to date. 😂🐾

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