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!
This perennial herb has soft leaves, beautiful hibiscus-like white and pink flowers, and provides a healing herbal medicine. Marshmallow roots are the original source of the slimy mucilage used in the traditional recipe for marshmallow candies. The whole plant – roots, leaves, and flowers – makes a very soothing tea for sore throats and irritated tissues. We dry the roots in fall and make a cold infusion of the dried roots whenever we need it for colds, allergies, and dry skin. This herb is safe for kids and nursing moms as well. Read more
