Edible, medicinal, and native plants for the Pacific Northwest
We spent 13 years building an abundant fruit forest, annual veggie beds, perennial medicinal herbs, and a healthy mixed hardwood-coniferous forest and now we’ve sold our property to the next stewards so that we can begin a new homesteading project in Vermont closer to our best friends and their kids.
Don’t worry - we plan to keep this website up and running so that our customers can reference what we’ve written about our plants!
We’ll let you know once we re-start a farm in Vermont!
Tall Oregon grape is a woody perennial shrub in the barberry family that is tough enough to survive in many conditions and yet provides edible and medicinal yields. It grows 2-7 feet tall in well-drained sunny or shady locations. Small yellow flowers give way to edible purple berries that make a great bitter digestive, fresh, dried, tinctured, or in jam. The yellow color of the stems and roots indicates the presence of berberine, a tea or tincture of which decreases congestion and helps fight bacteria. We’ve planted it all over the understory of our forested hillside because it’s native and so useful! Read more
