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!
Pig-a-back plant is a trailing perennial ground cover native west of the Cascades that prefers moist forests and shady stream sides where soil is moist throughout the year. It blooms in late spring or early summer, sending up a flower stalk with delicate red or white bell-shaped flowers. It is also grown as a container or houseplant. The name comes from the adorable way that new rosettes of leaves grow on top of the older, larger leaves.
Plant it next to a water feature or shady stream where it can receive misty humidity especially in summer. Read more
