Dream Thyme Farm

Dream Thyme Farm Woman owned & operated farm on 85 acres in Western PA. 20+ years of hand making goat milk soaps from my own goats, with medicinal & foraged plants & herbs.

CSA, gardens, woods, fields and more. pastured pork, poultry. Shears her own sheep, farm education

*update-she’s home, on R & R. Bill was surprisingly affordable (YAY💜) Another mini procedure in 2 weeks. Current positio...
05/20/2026

*update-she’s home, on R & R. Bill was surprisingly affordable (YAY💜) Another mini procedure in 2 weeks.

Current position: at the vet with one of my Sebastopol geese-a female named Freeda.
She has an abscess, a complicated one that was above my pay grade. So, we are at the vet’s so they can make her comfortable. It was painful for her, and as soon as I had a good week and sold some extra farm products, she was a priority.
This is why I can’t have nice things, because there is always a life form here that comes before me with more important and critical needs.
I’m stressed about the cost, as she is not the only one in the lineup of “critical asap need attention”.
Hopefully it works out, where she is going to be better and I have enough to cover her procedure. She is in the back, had some spa time to soak her foot.
X-rays, then a few incisions.
Say a prayer that the vet’s office doesn’t go crazy on the bill.

That’s what Im doing in the waiting room. (Praying lol)…While saying hi to every dog that comes in! You know… because DOGS. They all need a pat, a HI and and a hug if they wish. And they love to do a good old boot sniff because I smell like Eau De Toilette-farm scented. Attractive only to dogs, my farm animals & apparently Warren-who still loves me no matter how farm stinky I get. The dude is undeniably a keeper. 💖

Oh, I have extra goslings too, if anyone is interested! It would be great to sell goslings (and muscovy ducklings) to help cover the bill. Interested? Send me a dm.





05/19/2026

Muscovy ducklings available.
My little girl was a tad ambitious.
Although they are cute, they will need new homes.
Interested?
Send me a message.
I also have goslings available.




Today at market ❤️
05/09/2026

Today at market ❤️

We started picking asparagus a few days ago. We have a few pounds now with more coming every day! I am going to cook som...
04/21/2026

We started picking asparagus a few days ago. We have a few pounds now with more coming every day! I am going to cook some with ramp butter tonight. I will definitely be bringing asparagus to market Saturday.
Picked more Morels yesterday. I picked more than what are in the picture. The first Morels that pop first here are the half-free (the one in my hand). Also commonly called peckerheads.
Then the other varieties come up once those are almost done.








This is a fun time of the year. I have gone picking for morels a few times already. We also are busy with early garden w...
04/18/2026

This is a fun time of the year. I have gone picking for morels a few times already. We also are busy with early garden work, boiling sap, harvesting wild leeks (ramps), wild onions, and plants that we dry for teas.





I will bringing Ramps, Eggs and Dog treats to Sewickley farmers market this Saturday. The ramps are beautiful this year,...
04/17/2026

I will bringing Ramps, Eggs and Dog treats to Sewickley farmers market this Saturday.

The ramps are beautiful this year, and I would have brought them last weekend, but last Friday afternoon into evening we had thunderstorms.
They are gently removed with the roots intact so people can plant them, if they would like.
Feel free to ask me about planting, I am always wanting to share farm advice! We have over an acre of them, and never over harvest, just making room for more to come.

Eggs are plentiful from the free ranging chickens, and the “rainbow colors” are vibrant and beautiful. There have been so many rare and diverse chicken breeds at the farm over the years.

Ducks are starting to lay, and eggs will be in limited quantities. I do have some sneaky ducks too, so if anyone would be interested in ducklings, I most certainly will have babies to share. Much to the dismay and frustration of this farmer!

I will be bringing just a few goose eggs to market, if I bring any at all. I am still collecting a few, as most are sitting on nests now, and collecting goose eggs are not the hill I want to wear armor for. Those offspring will be for future Christmas goose, to sit at the table or laying on the table.
The rest of the goose eggs will go into pound cake that I make each year at this time, and have quite a number of people waiting for their yearly loaf.

Dog cookies will be baked fresh Friday night. These are filled with squash, carrots, turnip greens, tallow, lard, beef, farm eggs and more goodies. Every batch is different and once cooled down immediately tested on the anxiously awaiting group of working farmcollies and rescued dogs that I trip over while baking. I will have a limited amount of dried organ jerky for dogs also.

I am taking deposits for half pigs custom cut to the buyer’s specifications for early spring eating, summer grilling and fall cooking. For more details, message me for an email answering any question you would have of this process. Save money by buying in bulk straight from your local farmer.

I am taking pre-orders for delivery of compost, and may have one bag with me on Saturday for viewing.

I will have other things too, stop by and say hi. If you would like to be added to the farm newsletter, send me your email address. We have some limited quantities of things that are only mentioned in the emails.

If you can, support the farm and animals by subscribing to the Substack, The Daily Dose of Farmer Lynne. Most of the farm stories are behind a paywall, because this is one of the ways we bring in money to support the farm and the rescues here. The last publication is free for all to read and has information on the new sheep to the farm! (And you will find out that a bottle baby lamb will accompany me on Saturday.)

As always if you need to gift a heartstone, stop by. I pick up many each day on my farm and love to give them away. I have given away hundreds over the years. Always free, just spreading good cheer, joy & love.

See y’all at market. ❤️





Ramps, Wild Leeks, popped up a week or two ago. It’s all a blur every day, greeting the spring, seeing it all unfolding ...
04/09/2026

Ramps, Wild Leeks, popped up a week or two ago. It’s all a blur every day, greeting the spring, seeing it all unfolding as years gone past, trying to appreciate every second of it.
I’m collecting eggs from chickens, geese & ducks.
We are boiling sap.
Picking a few Morel mushrooms & other treats.
Wild onions, nettle, p***y willow.
Planting seeds.
Cleaning up tree limbs & branches.
Moving animals to new pastures.
Projects & crafts are lining up.
Seeds, seedlings, gardens.
Moving compost.
Spring butchering appointments made.

I’m not online or using my phone much these days.
I don’t want to get lost in planned algorithms, I don’t want to miss a thing.

The days don’t have enough hours, and I can’t waste what I have. I plan on enjoying every second.





Spotted my first Morels of the season while I was out collecting buckets of black walnut sap. I left them there, Im cook...
04/04/2026

Spotted my first Morels of the season while I was out collecting buckets of black walnut sap.

I left them there, Im cooking down sap this past week, this weekend, next week, until it’s all done. It’s the most we have ever done.

I will grab the morels later or tomorrow. We will find more before Easter dinner & I will cook them. Farm tradition, I cook and we eat what we first find. After that, there’s extras for others.





Every single day, I am surrounded by heart shapes. I photograph them, get deeply touched and know somehow messages of lo...
03/30/2026

Every single day, I am surrounded by heart shapes.
I photograph them, get deeply touched and know somehow messages of love are here.

It’s been over 8 years of daily hearts, sometimes the days have more than one. Somedays the days give me 10 or 20.

I would pick up the heart stones and place them into old stockpots and buckets that lost a handle or had a crack, and those are everywhere. In every outbuilding and barn, the corners of the porches, in all the vehicles, and right inside every doorway to the house, I have a collection vessel.

Warren finds them in the washer and dryer from not checking my pockets. I pick them up almost every day. Warren has had to explain to people that grabbed a ride home from work with him why his side pockets & drink holders are filled with stones. I laugh at this, when he tells me that he drove home Ben, an Amish coworker, that those are Lynne’s heart stones that she picks up. I always want to see Warren’s face.

I have asked the cosmos, said a prayer, asked for divine guidance, asked for simple miracles to make life a bit easier for us along with so many others, when I find one.

The hearts don’t make anything easier in my life, they lift my spirit a bit, remind me that the purpose of life is love, and we keep on keeping on, doing our thing.

I have given away hundreds, maybe a thousand or more. I hope that they bring a gift of good energy, reminding folks that love is infinite.
Maybe a gifted heart stone flips someone that day from being downtrodden and blue to feeling loved.

Besides my regular farm account on instagram, I have one just for the hearts, called . I was posting everyday, but I am not one that needs more to do.

With the numbers of hearts I find, I would be on social media all day long. Plus, my camera’s focus broke on my phone. Every picture I take, is a 10-20 second video, and then I have edit out the only clear image if there is one, save it as a photo to post. Yes, I need a new but used phone. No, it is not on the top of the financial critical list, so for over a year, it has stayed down low, and hasn’t moved up.

C’est la vie (such is life).

Sending love.







In the cold garage, the sap waits in 5 gallon food grade buckets, to be boiled for syrup. Farmer Warren is finishing the...
03/30/2026

In the cold garage, the sap waits in 5 gallon food grade buckets, to be boiled for syrup.

Farmer Warren is finishing the welding of the evaporator.
If everything lines up, we should be ready to be in full boil just to get poured on. Farm time is always set to the time of chaos, inconvenience, harder work, and elements that beat the farmers body.

Reminds me of when Warren & I ran into a farmer he knew that mentioned how worn down he was, being 44. Sheesh he looked 68. When I said that to Warren, he said “that’s farming for you!” I reached up and rubbed my face, feeling my well earned wrinkles, shook my head, laughed and said “it does a body good”. And rolled my eyes.

This year we have to put up a sugar shack. We will NEED to. Miracle needed.





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