Apple Meadow Farm

06/12/2026

Rose Petals decorations and or food.

My favorite ways to use foraged Rose Petals:
🌹 Rose Petal Lemonade (fun as is or in cocktails)
🌹 Dried rose petals for tea (use in tea lattes like my Rosy London Fog)
🌹 Rose Petal Honey (think delicious rosy jam without having to can anything)
🌹 Plus one more: Rose Water for deeper skin hydration!

The first 3 recipes are on Apothecary Mary! If you want to learn how to make rose hydrosol, it's in my herbal glow-up guide for spring & summer. Comment BLOOM & I'll send you the link.

Happy picking!

06/12/2026

YUM

06/11/2026

When people think of stinging nettle, they usually imagine the plant’s leaves or roots — known for their detoxifying and anti-inflammatory effects. But there’s another part of this remarkable plant that often goes unnoticed: the seeds.Tiny yet potent, stinging nettle seeds are packed with nutr...

06/10/2026

Gibbit Hill Relay Race August 5th. Anyone want to do it?! Looks like a great family event. Barbecue follows

06/06/2026

Can you imagine with fresh picked strawberries, locally made butter and harvested ingredients? Drooling here 😍🤤

06/06/2026

Another good one destroyed by mean people.

I shared this photo the other day in a series, with the caption speaking about missing the early years on the internet and how we could all benefit from taking a step back.

It’s a wheel of cheese I made July 5th 2019 while employed at Cate Hill Orchard & Sheep Dairy.
It says so right on the package label, with its plant #

Not even 2 days after sharing it, I was greeted by the state of Vermont Ag agents in my driveway.
Reported.
Falsely reported.
Falsely reported for selling unlicensed raw dairy.
For sharing a 7 year old image….

I have made it very clear on this page that my dairy animals are for personal use, only. I state that on my cheesemaking shares and answer it continually in the comment section.
I do not sell dairy.
I am not licensed or inspected by the state of Vermont.
And I don’t plan to be.

I informed the very kind gentlemen that I’ve milked for many licensed farms, I tag and I promote them. I’ve made cheese with and for half a dozen licensed cheesemakers, I tag and I promote them. I connect the public far and wide to their local food producers, I tag and I promote them. I love just about all things Vermont Ag, I tag and I promote them.
That doesn’t mean I sell what I produce.
If you have questions, ask. And ask ME!
Don’t be a snake in the grass; looking for an “I gotcha” moment.

Over the last 11 years I’ve given everything to this page. My knowledge, my family, my opinions, my privacy, my experience, my trials, my failures and my highest most proud moments.
To be continually met with pushback, negativity and now folks peeking in on my life making uneducated false reports.
I’d be lying if I said I’m not saddened, pi**ed off, deflated, ashamed and thankful of this surprise visit.
To think that all I’ve ever tried to do is connect people to the wonders of Vermont farming or agriculture in general and this is where it meets me….

My time of farming daily for the internet has come to an end.
Actions like these, by a follower nonetheless, likely a local my gut tells me, just hastily solidifies my decision.
It’s a shame that Vermont farm regulations are so hostile that producers will blindly and eagerly turn on one another.
I truly hope my gut feeling to be wrong.

If sharing my life has inspired you in any way, I’m passing the educational torch to you💛

I’m going on summer vacation✌🏻

06/06/2026

Our cherry limeade is made with fresh sweet cherries and freshly squeezed lime juice for a perfectly balanced sweet-tart flavor.

06/05/2026

Anyone in the Groton, MA to New Ipswich, NH area want to join me for Gibbit Hill Foraging walk June 7th? I have an extra ticket. Pm me or comment below. Food is involved as well.