Cloud Nine Farm, 7 Teepee Lane, Wilsall, MT (2026)

05/13/2025

Matt from Northern Bridger Bison took some great photos of the colorful storm from the other evening. We went out right around that time. There is a strip of lightning just about to form above our greenhouse about a half a second before it lit the sky up

05/09/2025

Well we are excited to offer our first batch of off the charts lettuce mix to you at the Bozeman winter farmer’s market tomorrow! Not going to tell you the blend. You folks are just gonna have to come visit us there! It is a nutrient dense blend that will pop in your mouth. See you there!

02/22/2024

This is one from the vault. Been taking a trip down memory lane, cause we’re in the process of finding a new steward (or stewards) for our beloved Yeomans plow. Pretty much the Cadillac of soil-building, water-capturing, regenerative tractor tools, designed and built in Australia.

See with what ease and little surface disturbance this great large metal kit rode across the landscape, hugging the contours, creating myriad 14” (can go 18” even) deep channels for precipitation and snow melt to sink into the earth and recharge our water table, our water shed, our own family well even, while creating the opportunity for abundant aerated and stimulated root growth of valuable grassland species in an otherwise inhospitable terrain. Combined with livestock managed holistically, and ideally, microbial boosting teas and drill seeded multi species pasture mixes, it’s kind of a basically fantastic set up.

We’re hopeful we can find the right folks to get this tool and these methods on to lots of acres in the coming years. 🤍🔥🙏🏻🌾🌞

02/10/2024

Here is our Qi Tea blend: an energizing and nourishing coffee replacer with health benefits, for the Bozeman Winter Farmers’ Market tomorrow.

It has an array of Pacific Northwest wild-harvested medicinal mushrooms, including Reishi, Turkeytail and the Chaga you see pictured, plus rich Cacao, gut-healing roots like Marshmallow and Licorice, liver and digestion supporting roots of Chicory, Dandelion and Burdock, and the adaptogenic and energy tonifying root Ashwaganda ☕️🫖 We are aiming to have some prepared to drink at our table tomorrow morning. I 🤍 this one.

02/04/2024

Marking a new bird species observation on the farm today 🤍🪶 The American Tree Sparrows have visited us a couple of times…I first noticed them yesterday afternoon, because unlike the Grey Crowned Rosy Finches they produce a tinkling song with several notes, described in my National Geographic field guide as “teedle-eet”. In chorus it sounds like ice crystals or glass shards sort of falling and tinkling together…not the best description, because it’s lovelier than that. They are larger than our typical sparrow visitors, none of which winter here. They are the only Sparrow species that winters here in Montana (and are also found in winter throughout most of the interior states) as far as I’ve learned so far. 🪶 Keep an eye and ear out for them; they summer in the farthest North, like the GC Rosy Finches.🪶
Photo credit to East Side Audubon Society . Org

01/30/2024

Today I’ve been tea 🫖 blending and working on the new labels for my elixir blends. The first few slides are our Boost Your Immunity tea blend.

I also made a custom small batch for a man struggling with pneumonia. It’s got Mullein, Hyssop, Peppermint, Thyme and touch of Artemisia tridentata, along with a few other key herbs. All of these will be growing on our farm this season, and available in seedling form as well. I love creating special personal blends. Reach out if you need support this way.

I’ve settled on a new container style for the elixirs and tincture blends…I couldn’t find these the last time I needed to order, so I’m pretty happy they are here…when the new labels come, which are on matte metallic silver paper, I’ll start bottling the extracts like this. I like that the color of the liquid will be visible.

In farm news, I was just looking at the forecast for the next couple of weeks, and it seems like early spring is just here already, and the ground in the high tunnels is totally thawed, so we will start putting seeds in the ground sometime in the next several days I think…Seann thinks we will probably get another arctic blast (I’d say from hell, but it’s warm there) in February. I say “who knows”…who knows what will happen. This weather is weird and unsettling, yet I’ve found after at least 8 years in a row of sketchy, bipolar, unstable weather extremes, and the stress that brings when I worry about it, I have very little emotional capacity to carry stress about it now. Whatever happens will happen. We’ll deal with it. Try to make the best of it. Weather it.
Last year’s big lesson for me was to have acceptance and nonattachment to notions of “ideal weather”…to stop thinking my happiness hinges on the state of my gardens. It really hinges on whether my bills continue to be paid 😂 and we can certainly navigate numerous strategies for that even if the worst kind of weather events bear down on us.

That’s the news from Cloud Nine on this warm and calm day at the end of January. Going out to water my greenhouse nursery now! 👋🏻😘

01/11/2024

I’m mixing up Belly Soother Tea on this very cold and wintry day 🌱🍵🫖

I’ve designed it to warm and soothe and support inflammation, pain, nausea, digestive irritability, windiness, and food poisoning related ailments of our stomach!

The herbs in this blend have anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, carminative, and soothing demulcent properties.

Carminative herbs are aromatic and relaxing to a tender and aching stomach, like Fennel, Ginger, Peppermint and Cardamom, while demulcents like Slippery Elm and Licorice Root contain mucilaginous compounds which produce a gel that coats and soothes irritation of the gut lining, promoting lessening of pain and healing.
Calendula, which is one of the herbs in the blend that we grow here, is considered to be highly supportive to conditions like Crohn’s, colitis and gastritis, which is the name for inflammation of the stomach lining.

I love this blend, it’s so nice to sip after dinner and enjoy the flowery and ginger-y aroma of the combination of herbs. It has a very calming and uplifting effect on one’s mood as well.

The second frame is some of the Calendula flower we grew last summer, going out to my friend Megan along with some of our tea blends. I’m planning on offering herbs from my stores packaged individually, on a pre-order basis, sometime soon. I’ve had a couple of requests in the past week for individual herbs and I’m happy to offer these. I’ll make a post about it soon. I think the thing to do will be to begin sending out a monthly newsletter via email of these kinds of things.

If you’re interested, in buying herbs, our preparations, seedlings, and eventually produce, send me a DM with your email address. Thanks to the people who replied to my little seedling survey, I will add you to the list. I don’t intend to spam, or cheese it up or anything, and I’m not even sure I can promise to make it every month, but I’d like to try this method of communications out I think!

Tomorrow I will have another post because I’m releasing a new preparation that I’ve been working on for some time, we’ve been enjoying it here, so time to put it out into the world I think!

Cheers! 🤍

12/13/2023

Views lately: Making tea (and other things), Wyatt painting away, the Grey-Crowned Rosy Finches are back in their cheerful flocks, the skies have been putting on shows each evening as the light and day length lessens, a lovely painting (though I now see I missed getting the artist’s name and so I don’t know who made it)…but perfect for this time of year, and another lovely deep indigo evening sky display from a few weeks ago.
I haven’t been taking many pictures lately, sort of “head in the clouds” with feeling like the end of a very tough slog of a year is almost past, and taking any possible opportunity to rest and do as little as possible. I recently started reading the Space Trilogy by CS Lewis, and what an adventure so far. Such a loving and tender writer he was…my thoughts are expanding with each story.
Wyatt just received great news that he has been given full tuition scholarships for two painting classes late next month at the Scottsdale Artist’s School, and we are very happy for him, and excited for his journey of skill-building, creativity and learning.
Haven’t begun envisioning what’s to come for the farm business next year too much yet…really need a rest from work-related thinking and doing at the moment, and it happens a little here and there and that’s good. It’s the season to enjoy the fire in the wood stove, to sip lots of tea and soups, to read, and I like that. Hope you’re all staying cozy!

12/06/2023

Bottling some Cloud Nine Fire Cider for the Woods Rose Market CSA share this week! Excited to send these out tomorrow! 🔥

In other news, a couple of weeks back, we closed down our heated greenhouse until next year, and so our Microgreens will not be available in stores for several more weeks. Unfortunately, with increases in our costs, the greatest of which is fuel to heat our greenhouse during the coldest months of the year, we are not able to keep this project profitable this winter. All our other costs have increased over the last couple of years, 30-50-100% on all the inputs and packaging etc., and we only raised our prices like 10% since Covid hit, so it’s a bit of a conundrum and the math isn’t working in our favor. Hopefully we will start these up again sometime around February, but we’re not exactly sure right now, still have to determine our business plan for 2024.

Thank you to everyone who has purchased these tiny power greens from us over the past several winters, we have greatly appreciated your support of our products as we’ve run our “four season farm”. Growing leafy greens over the coldest winter months in Montana is no easy task, though we’ve enjoyed and also weathered the challenges. Seann and myself are looking forward to finding work off the farm, and changing things up a bit.

We have one more Bozeman Winter Market left this month, on Saturday December 16…we’ll be there with herbal products, pickles, ferments, chai, and maybe more of Wyatt’s homemade stuffed pasta creations. See you then! 🤍❄️

11/14/2023

We took a little trip to The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts today. What a cool place…the warm weather was perfect and the meandering sculptural installations were nicely set off by golden grasses, low sun, and the leafless trees and brambles. So many little shining gems poking out of the ground everywhere, and just an amazing old ruins at the brick works. I took so many more photos.
We then popped into an antique store where I only JUST missed a pair of Frances Senska birds that one of the dealers had displayed, probably mistaking them for 70s bric-a-brac, for a mere $28 each. Unluckily for me, but lucky for she, the nice woman working the shop had just noticed and grabbed them not long before we came in. Turns out she’s a collector of pottery whose daughter is a ceramic artist and Bray alumni. My goodness, it was a lovely pair of matched little partridge, and when we have Hungarian Partridges back in the berms this fall, a covey of about ten, just the loveliest little creatures. My heart’s trying to recover from the miss of an incredibly perfect opportunity.

I found a little baggie of Italian miniature ceramic pots and cups and jugs for $5, which I’ve placed in my houseplants as a mimic of the pottery landscaping around the Bray, as a little reminder of today’s lovely adventure.

I probably should have tried begging the lady at the front desk, who shared she already had 20 some in her collection…there may have been some leverage. And by begging, I mean begging harder with the possible shedding of a tear 😅

It’s a lovely place, weird, wild, crumbling, nostalgic, fantastic.
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11/11/2023

Hello everyone! Wanted to let you know we will not be attending this morning’s —the men had the great fortune of harvesting 2 cow elk late Thursday evening, and we have opted to take yesterday and today, while Wyatt has 2 days off from Campione, to get this beautiful abundance of meat butchered and wrapped and ready for the freezer.

We’ll be at the next ones though, starting next week again, and as always if you need a supply of herbal goods or pickles we can always send a package to you, just ask!

I’ve still got a few new remedies in the works to be introduced in the coming weeks, which I’m looking forward to.

I’m also considering hosting a (monthly?) gathering for women here at our farm now that things are slowing down some, probably like a Sunday brunch sort of potluck thing…we have a small space so it would probably be for 10 or less. Would anyone be interested? Women, gathering, the earthly arts, quality time, tea, etc…let me know in a DM or message if this might interest you? Ladies used to host these for the WOTD group some years ago in the Gallatin Valley, and I was thinking it might be nice to create something similar. I’ve been rather a hermit for a long time, maybe time to break out a little 😅😂

Anyway, sorry we’ll be missing you and the market this morning, but we are so blessed to have full freezers this year! See you 🔜

xoxo

10/28/2023

Holy smokes it’s a cold one out there!
Negative 4 degrees this morning, way too cold for late October in my opinion, but the firewood is up, the hay is in, the propane tanks are replenished, and we managed to get about 70% buttoned up around the place before this storm landed. Looks like we’ll be back to the 40s next week, thankfully.

Seann and Wyatt are loading the van right now and heading over to the , and we hope you’ll bundle up and come down too—lots of amazing foods and goods and people!

I refilled the Fire Cider, and this batch is 🔥! Wyatt has lots of our Spicy Herbal Chai on tap, and lots of other cold season herbal remedies will also be on our table, along with plenty of warming and healing herbal teas. Sadly, the new capsule product I’m working on will not be available this market after all, but will be ready for the next market, in case anyone is wondering about that. We’ve all been beta-testing the herb capsule blend this past week and it’s quite invigorating, so we look forward to sharing soon.

Thank you for all your support, friends of C9F! Stay warm! 🤍

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