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!

Garden Sorrel

Rumex acetosa

We rely on garden sorrel greens in January and February.  Before any other outdoor crop is ready to harvest, garden sorrel is up and abundant!  You’ll be glad you put some sorrel in the ground because it produces so many delicious lemony greens late into the fall and early in the spring, just when you really need some vitamin A, vitamin C, and minerals fresh from the garden.

The lemony flavor is a super addition to salads.  It is also traditionally cooked in soups and as a steamed vegetable.