Nettle Valley Farm

Nettle Valley Farm Nettle Valley Farm is a small farmstead in southeastern MN providing whole and half pastured pigs.

Our pigs get fresh pasture every week and feast on a corn/soy/fishmeal free feed made from certified organic peas and barley.

In honor of , I wanted to share something I just learned about: milkw**d pollinarium! Pollinarium are these super cool ...
06/24/2026

In honor of , I wanted to share something I just learned about: milkw**d pollinarium!

Pollinarium are these super cool winged pollen structures that get stuck to insects’ feet while they are drinking nectar. Now that I know what they are, I’m seeing them on almost every bumblebee / honeybee / other kind of bee visiting the rose and butterfly milkw**ds! Pretty NEAT!

(More info in the USDA paper I screenshotted in slides 2/3)

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06/21/2026

This is your sign (if you even need one) to plant a couple hollyhocks! I continue to be blown away by how resilient and easy to grow they are. These are “Dayna’s Backyard Pigpen Hollyhock Mix” from Driftless Seed Supply. I picked and dried and cleaned each seed with my own two hands. Xoxo

It’s SO SATISFYING to clear buckthorn and honeysuckle off of these beautiful south facing rock ledges. Progress! Rain da...
06/20/2026

It’s SO SATISFYING to clear buckthorn and honeysuckle off of these beautiful south facing rock ledges. Progress!

Rain daubing the stumps with herbicide so they don’t resprout

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… HOW DID WE LIVE WITHOUT THIS GRAPPLE

Warm welcome to Rain, our latest WWOOF-USA® helper! After giving all the seed plots a thorough w**ding yesterday, Nick a...
06/18/2026

Warm welcome to Rain, our latest WWOOF-USA® helper! After giving all the seed plots a thorough w**ding yesterday, Nick and Raina and I headed to the woods to keep chipping away on all the Very Embarrassing, Very Large Buckthorn. More before and after pics incoming!!

06/17/2026

Monarch caterpillar about to make a chrysalis on the native lupine next to the rose milkw**d seed crop plot! 😍

06/08/2026

Monarch caterpillars in the butterfly w**d seed crop plot!

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Our project for the morning! Nick, Julia and I made some nice progress on this wall of buckthorn. We treated the stumps ...
06/05/2026

Our project for the morning! Nick, Julia and I made some nice progress on this wall of buckthorn. We treated the stumps and now I’ve got to figure out what to plant that will compete with the inevitable flush of buckthorn and garlic mustard seedlings… Normally I’d just plant the same mix of natives in the unit next to it but this area has been a favorite spot for goats to p**p and p*e and rest for several years now and I worry that it’s too high in nitrogen for a lot of those species! Hmm…

We’re so lucky to have our friend Julia helping out via the program for the week!! Swipe to see who we saw while w**din...
06/03/2026

We’re so lucky to have our friend Julia helping out via the program for the week!! Swipe to see who we saw while w**ding the seed growing beds yesterday!!!!!

05/25/2026

WOWWWW. We spotted this Nessus Sphinx moth at the Wilmington Lutheran cemetery!!

YOU GUYS this is a caterpillar!!!! I was checking out my sneezew**ds and I noticed this little pile of vegetation… I alm...
05/24/2026

YOU GUYS this is a caterpillar!!!! I was checking out my sneezew**ds and I noticed this little pile of vegetation… I almost kept going but then I remembered what I learned in the documentary: there is a caterpillar that camouflages itself with flower petals or dead leaves or other kinds of vegetation!!!

Meet what I’m pretty sure is the caterpillar life stage of the Wavy lined Emerald Moth / Synchlora aerata! Smitten!

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