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!

Clary Sage

Salvia sclarea

Habit
Biennial
Ecological Role
Adapted to heavy clay soilAttracts pollinatorsDeer resistantEdible flowersFlavorful tea
Availability
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With the sweet and spicy aroma of grapefruit and pine, clary sage brightens our day with its scent as well as with its spikes of white and purple flowers. This biennial starts out the first year as a basal rosette, and then blooms up to four feet tall in the second year.

Several farmers in the Willamette Valley cultivate clary sage to harvest the essential oil. Skip the tractors and the bottling facility! Grow this wonderful herb right at home.

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