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!

Saltbush

Atriplex halimus

Habit
Shrub
Ecological Role
Edible perennialEvergreen leavesHedgerows
Availability
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Saltbush is a wonderful choice for year-round edible raw greens. This shrub is semi-evergreen and will provide mildly salty spinach flavored leaves throughout the year. Some cold years, it can lose leaves and die back but these plants are clones of a shrub that survived the cold snap of 2013 in Lane County. A shrub that can grow up to 8 feet or more, it performs well when pruned to keep compact. We like to prune branches a few at a time when we harvest leaves for salad. It prefers well drained soil and is most productive in a sunny and irrigated site.