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!
Fig
Figs can be a great addition to a Northwest fruit garden, as long as they have a very warm spot- south facing wall or sun trap. They can grow up to 12 feet or more but respond wll to pruning. We prune ours short enough to harvest fruits easily. Some winters they will get some die back but they usually sprout back vigorously the next spring. Fig shrubs are elegant and beautiful with open branching.
The tasty fruit of this variety has yellow-green skin and a honey colored interior. These are the largest figs we’ve ever grown. Boy, are they sweet! There is a reason this one is named after honey! Read more
Also known as Grosse Monstrueuse de Lipari, this fig is named for an island in italy and known for its delicious fruit and large leaves. It has faintly striped and mottled green and purplish skin with a spectacular red, pink, and white flesh. Ours likely originated from a specimen at the UC Davis germplasm repository. It ripens two crops in Davis, but usually only one here in the northwest. Read more
A fig that performs very well in the Northwest with cooler summers, Negronne is also generally more compact. It can grow over 15 feet but is happy to be pruned for ease of harvest. These figs ripen in mid-late summer. They have deep pink flesh and purple skin and taste delicious and sweet. Sometimes you can get two crops a season if you are lucky. You may also know this variety as ‘Violette du Bordeaux.’ Read more
‘Desert King’ is a very good choice for the Northwest. It is early to ripen, productive, and has excellent flavor. Sweet and delicious fruits with green skin and pink pulp ripen in late July or early August. They are ripe when very soft and a bit shriveled. Its important to watch and get them before the birds do. They are an amazing fresh fruit - we have never been able to keep them long enough to preserve! Read more
Also known as Osborne Prolific, this fig produces a pretty small to medium sized fruit that is purple with yellowish stripes and a rosy interior. Yum! Read more
