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!
Bright yellow-orange flowers abound on these sun-loving plants. Although calendula is an annual that doesn’t survive the winter well, it faithfully self-sows in our garden and emerges each spring.
We toss the petals into salads and decorate desserts with these whole edible flowers. Infused into olive oil, calendula flowers make a very popular healing base for lotions, salves, and balms. Read more
