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!
Although most people think first of the way that cats go crazy from the aroma of the flower spikes of catnip, it’s also a wonderful herbal medicine. But it has the opposite effect on people - it’s a relaxing nervous system tonic. Catnip tea is also safe for kids and nursing moms.
Catnip grows in a cluster of leaves a few feet tall before it sends up its white flower spikes another couple of feet in the air. It likes sun and rich, moist soil but can tolerate part shade. Read more
