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!
Wild Yam
wild yam
Dioscorea villosa
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This wild yam is native to the eastern United States. Dormant in winter, the elegant shoots began to sprial skyward in spring, filled with glossy green leaves. It can climb over ten feet high on a trellis or poles. This plant does best in well-drained soils with ample sun.
The underground tubers, harvested in fall/winter, have a variety of medicinal uses. Although often cited as an estrogenic herb, the tubers are a smooth muscle relaxant and antispasmotic, so therefore help with many types of cramping.
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