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!
Yerba mansa is a creeping herbaceous perennial with white flowers that prefers wet soil and warm sun. Native to California and the Southwest, in our climate it may do best grown in a container and protected in winter. It has thrived in the ground in our greenhouse for several years.
Overall, this plant is warming and stimulating to blood flow. A tincture or tea of any part of the plant helps move cold and stagnant fluid in congested tissues, such as in a damp and stagnant sinus infection or osteoarthritis that is helped by warmth. A tincture of the root can also be used as a general antiseptic. Read more
