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​Vegetables, Herbs and Flowers for Your Garden 

Our greenhouse business is focused on growing high-quality vegetable, herb and flower starts for the home gardener.  We grow unusual varieties of plants, such as heirloom vegetables, that cannot be found at most nurseries or stores.  If you are a gardener and enjoy growing your own fresh vegetables, herbs or you just need some flowers to plant on your deck or patio, our greenhouse is open for plant sales during May and early June.     We will not have a booth at the Burlington County Farmer's Market this year, but will be selling directly from our greenhouse at the farm.  We will be open weekends (Saturday and Sunday) during May this year, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

We are excited to offer a selection of plants that can be used for natural dyeing of wool and other textile materials.  Growing dye plants is a way for us to combine two of our farming interests - fiber and nursery plants!  These plants have been selected for a variety of colors, and ease of use in harvesting and dyeing prep.  They also are attractive to pollinators - grow a few dye plants and your garden will be a wonderful, buzzy, busy and productive space!

If you are a knitter, weaver or fiber artist and love to do your own dyeing using natural, plant-based dyes, try making your own dye by propagating your own plants - it's fun and easy to do.  Plants will be well-started and ready to plant out in your garden by mid-May/early June.  All dye plants are started here at the farm with seeds sourced from suppliers who are specifically focused on producing cultivars of plants for natural dyeing.  
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Plants in the greenhouse - ready to sell at the Farmers Market
Bill working our booth at the Burlington County Farmers Market
In our home garden, we grow all of the varieties of vegetable plants that we sell, to ensure that we only sell plants that grow well in our area, and that produce great tasting vegetables.
Cosmos is one of the varieties of flowers we are growing that are used for dyeing wool and other fibers.
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609-784-8778
Lumberton, NJ

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  • Gallery
    • Sheep at Smiling Dog Farm
    • Cover Crops at the Farm
    • Windbreak Shelterbelt Project
    • Pollinator Habitat
  • About
  • Farm Blog
  • News and Events
    • Past Events
    • Fibershed Barn Crawl 2023
    • On Farm Workshops
  • Products
    • Fibershed Blankets
    • Gotland Fiber
    • Greenhouse
    • Fresh Eggs