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!
A beauty for a native wildflower garden, Oregon sunshine lives up to its name, bearing profuse quantities of deep yellow blooms. Gray green foliage is ornamental. This plant blooms no taller than a foot or two. You will find it growing on sunny slopes in wet wildflower meadows. In a garden, it makes a nice mat on borders and is great over rock walls. A wonderful companion to purple penstemon and pink checkermallows, which also bloom in late spring. Easy to grow, it is drought tolerant and deer do not bother it at our farm. Read more