Peach Fly Farm

Farm finds!

We knew of a few morels that grew on the farm in one spot, but found some more freebies wandering the orchard today.

Starting to feel like Spooky Season 🎃👻🍂

Old friends, new faces, and one unforgettable day at Peach Fly Farm 🐖🌽☀️ We fired up our beautiful smoker—hand-built by a friend up in Maine—as the first piece of our dream outdoor kitchen. With 98 degrees of sunshine, a smoked pig, and lots of laughter, it was the perfect way to kick off summer.

🍓 It’s berry official—strawberry season has begun! Come taste the sweetest part of spring.

This swarm of honeybees emerged from one of our hives—a natural part of colony reproduction. When a hive gets too crowded, half the bees leave with a new queen to start fresh elsewhere. We were able to safely capture and relocate the swarm right here on the farm to give them a healthy start in a new hive!

Removing an invasive Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima), a known host for destructive lanternflies. To prevent root spread, we used the ‘hack and squirt’ method over the past few years to ensure the tree was fully killed before removal. A necessary step in protecting our local ecosystem!

🌿 Building a Dead Hedge! 🌿

Sustainable, functional, and wildlife-friendly! We're constructing a dead hedge, using fallen branches and natural debris to create a natural barrier while providing habitat for small critters and improving soil health. ♻️🌱

Hard work, fresh air, and conservation all in one—what more could we ask for? Who else loves finding ways to work with nature instead of against it? 🐦🌿

Tree of heaven it’s commonly called, aka alanthus altissima, stinky sumac, ghetto palm or tree from hell. This is the biggest of them we’ve been working to eradicate over the past 2-3 years on the farm. Able to grow up to 10 feet in a year, thrive out of a crack in parking lot pavement, producing hundreds if not thousands of viable seeds by its 3rd year, toxic to seed germination of other species within reach of its canopy and roots, insane suckering ability if you cut it down without killing it first and the host tree of the brown marmorated stinkbug and the spotted lanternfly. The wood is very prone to rot, flimsy and makes for terrible firewood. Brought to this part of the world as a garden specimen, or “because it was pretty” in the late 1700s. At the time they likely didn’t know the impact of introducing it or even what the term “invasive species” meant. Well, we surely know now. So if you’re going to plant trees, and you should for many a reason, do yourself, your neighborhood, your kids, grandkids and the ecosystem a solid and PLANT NATIVE!!