Guilded Glade Homestead

04/23/2025

Carolina geranium, Geranium carolinianum, is an underrated native in my opinion.

04/11/2025

Getting some prescribed burning experience in with the Triangle Prescribed Burn Association. Hoping to become a certified burn boss in the next year.
Prescribed burning is the only way I’m going to eradicate Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) on my property.

03/29/2025

03/27/2025

Appreciating the spring natives.

03/12/2025

Often people think about the cute side of owning livestock but then you have to remind them you have to also deal with things like a chicken getting its eye pecked out. 😢

02/28/2025

When a couple of cardinals find a small crevice to enter the chicken coop but then panic because they cant figure out how to get out and you capture one to free it before the chickens eat it but it bites your finger and refuses to let go.
Getting bit aggressively by a cardinal is a first on the homestead. 😆

02/21/2025

Perfect, little snowflakes.

02/20/2025

10/05/2024

I loved identifying new species on the homestead. I haven’t seen one of these since I was a kid! I used to catch them out by the creek behind my house.
This is an American Bird Grasshopper, Schistocerca americana.

08/10/2024

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail visiting one of my sunflowers.

07/28/2024

Some beautiful butterflies I observed in my yard this week.

07/19/2024

The eastern tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus) are really enjoying the nectar of the spotted Joe-Pye w**d (Eutrochium maculatum). Small cameo by my guinea fowl. 😆