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!
Like other non-heading collard greens, this sturdy and cold-hardy vegetable produces large smooth, oval-shaped leaves that are really nice to harvest in fall, winter, and spring. It then grows tender little raab that are delicious steamed or stir-fried. If you don’t harvest all of the flower buds, they grow up to 5 feet tall with edible yellow flowers. That’s when most brassicas would up and die. Not tree collards. Instead, they grow little shoots from the base of the stem and put on lots of new growth in fall so that you can enjoy a harvest year after year.
Our mother plants survived the record-setting cold winter of 2013-14 with only minor setbacks. This is the first generation of seedlings from that crop. Read more
