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!

Yacon

Smallanthus sonchifolius

Habit
Hardy perennial
Ecological Role
Attracts pollinatorsEdible perennial
Availability
Sold out

Yacón produces sweet, juicy tubers the size and shape of sweet potatoes.  The stems grow up to 6 or 8 feet tall and bear yellow sunflower-type flowers.  The stems and leaves are sensitive to frost, so once you harvest the tubers, it’s best to keep the knobby crowns indoors for the winter.