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 onion has the funny habit of creating bulbs atop its flowering scapes that grow so big and heavy that the stems bend down and plant the bulblets in the soil about a foot away from the mother clump – sounds like walking, doesn’t it? Plus, the greens and bulbs are delicious!
Nodding onion is a showy native onion that is also a great addition to a perennial vegetable garden. The grass-like leaves can be harvested any time and eaten raw like chives or cooked as green onions. Flower clusters bloom pink in early summer on top of a one foot tall stalk. Unlike most onion flowers, they are tilted and appear to be “nodding”, hence the common name. Very easy to grow and drought tolerant once established, bulbs can be divided in winter and eaten as onions or replanted elsewhere. Read more
