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!
Kinnikinnick / Bearberry
kinnikinnick / bearberry
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Hardy perennial
Adapted to heavy clay soil
Attracts pollinators
Deer resistant
Drought tolerant
Tolerates shade
Evergreen leaves
Native to the Pacific NW
sign Mar 2016
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A broad leaf evergreen ground cover, kinnikinnick is very hardy. It thrives in partial shade and will spread along the ground or grow along a slope, providing some erosion control. Drought tolerant and deer resistant, kinnikinnick is easy to grow. Little bell shaped pink flowers give way to red berries in fall. These berries are edible and, if not harvested, will remain on the plant as bright red as gems through winter. A tea or tincture of the leaves help the body regulate pH and clear out infection in the urinary tract.
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