About Our Farm
Wildcat Ridge Farm is in its third incarnation. What began in the mid-90s as a produce farm to source fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs for our former restaurant, Lomo Grill, morphed into a flower farm after we shifted our focus to guiding culinary and wine tours, catering private parties, and hosting guests at our Yurt.
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We cultivated orchids for a while, then slaved over mysterious and intoxicating dahlias before we found our true love, peonies. There is something about this flower that touches people. Perhaps it's because peonies are an annual plant and often live for generations. Sometimes they get dug up and transplanted across town, passed down through the family. Whether it is the heady scent that some varieties have, or the vibrant pop of color, we simply can't get enough of them!
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May is our magic month when everything blooms. It's the time you can visit us without an appointment and walk through the blossoms to either choose a few stems to brighten someone's day or select a few plants for a sunny porch or your own garden.
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For a front-row seat to the color explosion, book a stay in our Yin Yurt, perched above the flowers!
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Have any questions? Please complete this form and we will circle back to you quickly.
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Peace, love & peonies,
Suzanne Fernandez & Ricardo Fernandez Battini
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Hurricane Helene Update: Summer 2025
Dear Peony Friends:Thank you, friends, for your cards, letters, emails, and phone calls - they gave us the strength to keep going after Helene delivered more water and destruction than we've ever had here at the farm. We've lived through three "hundred-year" floods before Helene blew in last September and changed our beloved Western North Carolina forever. The Pigeon River and the tons of debris (and frightened cows...) that it carried our way destroyed our raised beds and took them down the river along with our picnic tables and farm equipment. In their place, it left canoes, refrigerators, grills, tires, tables, toys, and other random pieces of people's lives. It took weeks before we got access to heavy equipment and the kindness of strangers, along with our wonderful Wildcat Ridge Farm team, to help us clear the debris and dig out the plants. We recovered about 25% of the plants and have replanted them in the ground. We are happy to say they are thriving! We also ordered 1,000 plants from our supplier in Holland, and have potted them and been giving them love since early fall.
We enjoyed seeing you for our miracle season this past May!
We are open by appointment only through the fall.
