Montpelier Farm

06/19/2026

Tomorrow at River Street Market in Petersburg there will be a wide variety of offerings. Please drop by!

06/19/2026

I love a good seed company!

This Juneteenth, we wanted to talk about the importance of seed sovereignty. By supporting Black/BIPOC seed companies and growers, you are helping to counteract the long history of agricultural inequity and discrimination that led to the widespread loss of Black farmland throughout the 20th century. Buying from these companies helps to preserve culturally meaningful seeds, and ensures that communities can continue to improve their local food systems and economic empowerment.

This list is just a handful of black seed companies that are working to preserve African Diaspora seeds, food sovereignty, and support a resilient food system for generations to come.

Comment any other seed companies not on this list! 🌱

06/19/2026

This is true….

06/19/2026

A wonderful site for flower gardeners. Pictured here is the native Columbine growing at Montpelier.

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center focused on protecting and preserving North America's native plants through native plant lists and image galleries, conservation, education, natural landscapes, seed collection - Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) Project, preserving and restoring native communities, sprea...

06/19/2026

Acquilegia. Columbine. Here are seeds saved from a lovely yellow variety which is more commonly found in the highlands of the American west than in Tidewater Virginia. I do love yellow so I purchased seed from a Prairie based seed company. Planted as an understory of Dogwoods , it thrives here. Growing beside Acquilegia candensis which is native to Virginia and the variety I sold last spring at River Street Market. Beautiful spring color, seeding now.

06/17/2026

Morning lavender harvest. Too bad there’s not a scratch and sniff option here. What a fabulous aroma! Drying for tea.

06/16/2026

Meanwhile, deep in a patch of comfrey, a Bourbon hen hatched seven today. Looks like a half dozen still incubating….

06/16/2026

Montpelier mamas aren’t discriminating. Your baby, my baby anybody’s baby. Our turkey friend here hatched some ducklings and readily adopted them as her own. Don’t get too close or she will peck you like a mama who won’t surrender her offspring.

06/16/2026