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!
Skullcap
This hardy perennial herb in the mint family bears purple-blue flowers on stalks about two feet tall. Skullcap likes moist soil and sunny locations in the garden.
barbed skullcap
Scutellaria barbata
Hardy perennial
Adapted to heavy clay soil
Attracts pollinators
Likes wet soil
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Barbed skullcap is native to southeast Asia including China and Taiwan, often growing on the edges of rice paddies. The fresh plant is used as a vulnerary to help heal wounds and as an anti-inflammatory for swollen tissue. Researchers are investigation its affects against certain types of cancerous tumors.
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Scutellaria lateriflora
Hardy perennial
Attracts pollinators
Likes wet soil
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This species of skullcap is native to moist meadows over a wide area in North America. It is the most popular and common skullcap among herbalists in the U.S.
The tea or tincture of the flowering top is a very effective sedative nervine that not only helps calm the nerves and reduce anxiety, but also helps to relax tight muscles. Further, this is a nutritious plant with lots of minerals and antioxidants that help protect tissues from oxidative damage.
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