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!
Though we usually propagate perennials, this annual mallow is a staple of our summer and fall diet because it is so prolific. So we planted a few seeds into pots to make sure we could share this productive green. Our plants regularly get 7 feet tall, loaded with mild and mucilagenous curly greens until the first hard frost in October.
Although annual mallows can make nice greens, this perennial mallow not only has delicious leaves but it also makes large displays of showy purple edible flowers! One type has lavender petals with dark purple stripes, while another type has deep magenta petals. Blooming plants grow up to three feet tall.
We like to steam the greens or add them raw to salads. They also make a nice mucilaginous infusion to soothe sore throats and irritated skin and mucus membranes. Read more
