Located in Northern New Jersey, Cedar Shakes Farm is owned and operated by Jersey natives and first generation growers Emily Jacobi and Joe Lynch. With over 20 years of combined experience managing vegetable farms, we are bringing our shared passion for sustainable horticulture and agroforestry to our own backyard.

Using principles of sustainability and permaculture, our land stewardship is guided by a special love for our environment and its inhabitants. For that reason, our nursery, food forest, and gardens are established using no-till methods and are fossil-fuel free in their cultivation and management. We highlight native plants in our system for wildlife and biodiversity, never use chemicals in our growing practices, and use only natural sources of fertility like manure, compost, leaves, ash, biochar, and woodchips.

Cedar Shakes Farm is located on the ancestral land of the Munsee Lenape people. We wholeheartedly respect their deep connection to this land and the history that came before us. We’re dedicated to honoring that legacy through our stewardship practices.

About Us

A recently grafted apple tree scion leafing out. A blue tag hanging off says Gold Rush
A basket full of red strawberries sitting on a woodchip path in front of white, orange, and red blooming poppy flowers
A close up of a hand holding blueberries and golden raspberries
Close up of a Redbud tree seedling
Tall tree pots with living paw paw trees lined up
A hand holding an assortment of blueberryies, blackberries and raspberries
An extended arm holding a group of small trees with bare roots. Wrapped around the base of the trees is a white tag that says C. Chestnut.
Two hands holding pink blushing white strawberries
A group of small bare root paw paw trees with very healthy, fibrous roots sitting on top of soil.
Close up of some ripe black chokeberry clusters on an aronia bush, with a few purple hyssop flowers surrounding it
A hand holding an assortment of ripe fruit. Chicago Hardy figs, red raspberries, goji berries, and fall gold raspberries.
A cicada on a young Carpathian English Walnut tree.
A metal bowl full of purple and pink grape clusters and 4 red artichokes
A hand picking a ripe peach from a peach tree
A single, foot-tall bare root paw paw tree sitting next to a tall tree pot on top of potting soil.
a gloved hand holding a chestnut in a spiny husk. The husk is opening revealing the top of two large chestnuts within.
A wooden garden box with wire netting and shade cloth on top of it. Growing in the box behind the wire netting you can see young chestnut, persimmons, and paw paws trees.
A hand holding a ripe fig cut in half over blooming yellow nasturtium plants.
A man with a straw hat bending over a wooden air prune garden box. He is spreading woodchips on top of the soil..

Our plant nursery specializes in edible perennials and native plants. We are working to offer a wide variety of seedlings, grafted trees, divisions, cuttings, and scions. We do not use any synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides on our farm and instead focus on healthy soils to grow plants that thrive on their own. All of our plants are shipped bare root and dormant, ready to take root in native soil and thrive.

The Nursery

A close up of a flower wreath in progress, with felco pruners and green wire spool sitting next to a half finished wreath
A woman in a garden holding up a handful of yellow and orange zinnias
A rustic floral wreath with purple and white flowers and green foliage
Flowers and greenery hanging on beams to dry above a white stone fireplace
15 wreaths of varying sizes shaped from vines, lined up on a wooden picnic table
A beautiful half floral wreath on a vine base with a ribbon and lots oof reds whites and ferns.
An arm in a flannel shirt harvesting small flowers into a basket.
A full floral wreath with a blue bow. The wreath has lots of sunballs, starflowers, echinops and ferns.
Flower bunches hanging above a fireplace on beans to dry
A woman in a blue hooding holding a basket of woody plants with red berries
A stylized dried half floral wreath with a vine base and amaranth, sunflowers and hydrangea
A woman in overalls and a straw hat working in a tidy flower garden with woodchip pathways
A full floral wreath with a pink bow. The wreath is covered in red strawflowers, immobium, and wispy miscanthus heads.
Close up of a bed of small white and yellow immobium flowers
Close up of a dried floral wreath on a vine base with pink yellow and tan flower accents and a pink bow
A floral wreath sitting on a wooden table next to plant material and felco pruners. The table is in front of a window, and out the window there are flower gardens.

All wreath material is lovingly cultivated from seed and grown using organic and sustainable practices in our gardens, or responsibly foraged from the local landscape. Each stem is harvested and dried using time-honored methods, preserving and even evolving their natural color, shape, and texture without the use of chemicals or artificial processes. Each one-of-a-kind wreath is then handcrafted with intention and made to last, brightening any room for years to come.

The Wreaths