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.

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We’ll let you know once we re-start a farm in Vermont!

Western Spicebush

Calycanthus occidentalis

Habit
Shrub
Ecological Role
Adapted to heavy clay soilAttracts pollinatorsDeer resistantDrought tolerantFlavorful teaNative to the Pacific NWTolerates shade
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A wonderfully fragrant native shrub, western spicebush is an open, deciduous shrub that tolerates part shade and is deer resistant.  Burgunday flowers bloom late spring to early summer and smell great.  This shrub can grow up to 8 feet tall and wide.  It tolerates heavy clay soil and is fairly drought tolerant. Western spicebush is native to California.

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eastern spicebush
Calycanthus floridus
Shrub
Attracts pollinators
Deer resistant
Tolerates shade
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Also known as Carolina allspice, this fragrant deciduous shrub, native to the Southeastern U.S., grows 3 to 8 feet tall and up to ten feet wide.  Essentail oil is distilled from the flowers, and the bark releases a camphor smell when scraped. Fragrant red flowers that look like magnolia bloom in early summer. In our climate, this plant tolerates part shade and is deer resistant. Read more