Highland Hill Farm is a different kind of a farming operation....We are urban farmers and dumpster divers. Located in Central Bucks County... a fast growing urban area where we have learned to live with urbanization and new homes that sprout from the ground like freshly planted corn. We believe that the few farms that remain must help in recycling and reusing items in our communities. It is not practical to use our land to grow beans. Taxes alone on each acre of land is greater than the sales revenue that come from an acre of beans. So we have had to find higher and better land uses.



If you want to be eco-friendly, then why not plant more trees and shrubs. Lawns are not eco-friendly. They take mowers and fuel to maintain. Planting trees and shrubs will also improve wildlife habitats. A naturalized landscape costs less in the long term to take care of and maintain. Why not get rid of your mower and outdoor power equipment and trade them away for trees and shrubs? You will use less oil and gas in mowing your lawn and you will have a more diverse landscape and habitat for wildlife.



We have registered with the Pa Dept. of Environmental Resources as a place where you can drop off your unwanted items such as old tools, tractors, plumbing and construction supplies, farm implements, fencing materials, usable nuts and bolts.... well you have the picture, things we can use around our farms. If we can't use them maybe we can send it on to someone else that can.

We are always looking to trade nursery stock and seedlings for your surplus. Why discard your surplus?...We will recycle it or reuse it.

Email us with your surplus materials. We may be able to make trades.

I once put an ad in the paper that said, "If it's free it's for me". I had to stop the add because I collected so much stuff. Ads do work. The problem with this ad was it was not specific enough to target what I was looking for. Over time and years I then started to swap and barter the free stuff that I got for things I really wanted. I had hundreds of broken lawn mowers and hundreds of gallons of old unwanted paint. I had enough paint to dip a house if needed. Disposal now became an issue. Thus I came up with the idea of trading and barter.

Now I did not invent this wheel but I had enough of them that it appeared I might have. So barter has become a means of swapping and exchanging my surpluses for other people's surpluses. Since I am in the nursery business I also have plants that are surplus. I may plant 1000 trees expecting to need 1000 and find that I have 500 more than what I need. So offering these trees on the web for barter has been an effective means to move dormant inventory. Besides this is a great way to meet new customers. When they have surpluses and I can move their dormant stock, we both win.

Here is a sample ad that I ran on my web site seedlingsrus.com :

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Trades Wanted

We are always looking to trade nursery stock and seedlings for your surplus. Email us with your surplus materials. We may be able to make trades.

Construction materials and equipment...doors, windows, boards, hardware

Plumbing supplies...pvc pipe and fittings, pumps, heaters, copper pipes and fittings

Hunting and fishing gear...ammo, reels, rods, tackle, boats, canoes, paddles

Hand tools...saws, drills, hand power tools, blades cuttershammers, wrenches, tool boxes

Farm implements...out door power equipment, tractors, wagons, fertilizers, pesticides, used cans of oils and lubs

Farm supplies...shovels, rakes, farm bells, an anvil, blacksmithing tools, generators

Fencing materials such as woven wire and split rail fencing, fence chargers, barbed wire, wire, nails, nuts, bolts, surplus pavers,

Palletized stone, field stone, flagstones, rocks, boulders

Household items such as wooden furniture, tables chairs, cabinets and dressers

Livestock..pigs, goats, cows, donkeys, chickens, peacocks, sorry no sheep(I don't trust myself with them).

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Now why I like snakes:

The reproduction rate of most mice and rats is far greater then most people realize. Rats for reproduce at a rate of almost 200 babies from just a single specimen. Now imagine if you missed that one mouse or rat...2 years in a row. The numbers begin to climb very fast to a huge number.

Besides protecting your trees and shrubs snakes will help reduce the threat levels from rat droppings and urine which is left behind to contaminate any place they have been. Rodents are known to carry diseases. Anything from salmonella, rickets , rat bite fever, tapeworms, and organisms that may cause ringworm .

So, now you know why I capture and collect snakes for our nurseries and farms. If you don't want your snakes, bring them to us we will barter.... your snake for nursery stock.

Note: We have thousands of Viburnum Dentatums to trade with. Fast growing to 15?, Zone 2. White flowers. Birds love blue-black fruit. Glossy red foliage in autumn. Good for background screen and wildlife habitat in any soil.