Edible, medicinal, and native plants for the Pacific Northwest
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!
A native perennial in the mint family, yerba buena likes dappled shade and handles a wide variety of soil from deep rich organic matter to nutrient poor clay. Once established, it can handle serious summer drought. Although a spreading ground cover, it politely co-exists with other herbaceous plants, grasses, or shrubs.
Minty with a hint of sage or pine, yerba buena tea is calming for the stomach and soothing to headaches. It is cooling for inflamed tissue and helps promote sweating during a fever or flue. Plus, it tastes great! Read more
