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!

Sweet Scarlet Goumi Berry

Eleagnus multiflora 'Sweet Scarlet'

Goumi plants are well known in the Northwest permaculture community for being great nitrogen fixing shrubs with a much lower chance for spreading by birds. These shrubs can grow up to 12 feet or so but do well if pruned to stay lower for easy harvest.  They will fruit in sun or shade. The fruit is like a small oblong cherry with golden speckles and is great raw or cooked. Sweet Scarlet s a particularly delicious variety. Last year, our plants in sun were more productive but the birds got to them quicker so we got more fruit from the shaded plants.