Category Archives: Wildlife

40th Annual Sarvey Wildlife Care Center Virtual Auction

By HeatherOctober 11, 20212 commentsWildlife

This beautiful Barred Owl has been hanging around the farm this fall. We love the wildlife found here at Goebel Hill Farm and do everything we can to support it. We have replanted thousands of trees and hundreds of native plants and we wholeheartedly support our Granite Falls neighbor the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center.

October brings Sarvey’s 40th annual fundraising auction and to help out the animals, we have donated a collection of our prized dahlia tubers that will be mailed to the auction winner just in time for spring planting. It’s a win win! You can support a fabulous cause and grow your own beautiful flowers!

Let the Holiday Season Begin with Beautiful Rose Hips!

By HeatherNovember 1, 20201 commentFarming and Flora, WildlifeChristmas Flowers, Holiday Decor, Rose Hips, Thanksgiving Flowers

We are pleased to be able to offer fresh cut, thornless red and orange rose hips for your seasonal wedding and holiday plans this year. Planting anything takes patience and this project has been a few years in the making, but the payback in stress relief while hanging out in the rose bushes has been a lifesaver this year!

Which Came First Turkey Vultures or Dracula?

By HeatherOctober 15, 2017WildlifeChickens, Fresh Local Flowers, Halloween Vultures, pumpkins, Wildlife

Good Eeeeevening…beginning in late spring we see a lot of Turkey Vultures here at Goebel Hill Farm. These huge birds with creepy red faces hang out in this valley all summer long. They scavenge for carrion, road kill and they eat cow pies and rotten pumpkins, too. Perfect! Apparently, having that red skin on their faces, rather than feathers, keeps the mess in check! We enjoy watching the vultures ride the thermals over the farm and in the valley below us. One summer morning we counted seventeen birds all soaring in the sky at once!

Turkey Vultures at Goebel Hill Farm

Turkey Vultures at Goebel Hill Farm