Deadnettle Farms

Deadnettle Farms Heirloom produce, herbs, and more grown in Pittsville, MD

Bottled our first fruit mead today - local honey + homegrown strawberries + the last of the wineberries from my childhoo...
08/04/2026

Bottled our first fruit mead today - local honey + homegrown strawberries + the last of the wineberries from my childhood woods + Amanda Ruchalski blueberries. Past and present infused into a pretty potent potion.

Finally finally planted my pumpkins and melons. Hopefully the threat of squash vine borers is past, hopefully the heat d...
07/15/2026

Finally finally planted my pumpkins and melons. Hopefully the threat of squash vine borers is past, hopefully the heat doesn’t immediately kill them, hopefully the wool mulch helps retain what little soil moisture we have. Hopefully we get some rain soon. Hopefully the well doesn’t run dry. Hope, hope, hope against all odds hope.

I really can’t say enough about how much I love this particularly neon zinnia variety that I chose this year (seriously ...
07/14/2026

I really can’t say enough about how much I love this particularly neon zinnia variety that I chose this year (seriously - no tweaking on this photo at all). What a joy to have as many of these to cut as I have vases for this summer.

07/03/2026

Dangerously hot so I froze some cucumbers for the stooges for dinner 🥒

It was *supposed* to be a chill weekend off with just a few quick jobs that were *supposed* to take about 2 hours maximu...
06/21/2026

It was *supposed* to be a chill weekend off with just a few quick jobs that were *supposed* to take about 2 hours maximum after months of barely stopping to look up.

The tractor, however, had other plans and now I’m more tired than I started out, stink of diesel, and those little jobs are still not done but hey, that’s farming baby.

Now *that’s* a bouquet. Why did I wait until this year to grow strawflowers and scabiosa? Why did I take a decade off fr...
06/16/2026

Now *that’s* a bouquet.

Why did I wait until this year to grow strawflowers and scabiosa? Why did I take a decade off from growing centauria? A fool, me, but finally, no longer.

Turned a too much bok choy problem into a slightly more manageable but still too much kimchi problem with today and I d...
06/02/2026

Turned a too much bok choy problem into a slightly more manageable but still too much kimchi problem with today and I didn’t realize how much my spirit was missing collective community labor like this. There’s a lot to be said for modern life, but something also about the deep and restorative joy of sitting around a dining room table gossiping, singing along with the music, and working in community towards a shared goal that everyone can enjoy the fruits of and take home when the labor is done.

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