Our Forest Nursery

Our nursery started out of sheer necessity. No one was producing the plants we were interested in working with in our permaculture food forests (at least no one locally). I mean have you tried to find a named cultivar of goumi or medlar at Home Depot??? Siberian pea shrubs, or seaberries, or persimmons??? Yeah, me neither. Today, we strive to make interesting hardy trees, shrubs, and other perennials available for our community. Whether you are planting a food forest, or a single specimen tree for your front yard, we can help connect you to plants that are sure to thrive in your space.

We grow our plants using practices that match our permaculture ethos. We hate waste, and try to keep our resources and inputs as local as possible. We will NEVER EVER use synthetic poisons, fungicides, insecticides, or any agents we feel destroy the intimate relationships between our plants and the soil life that supports them. We use our own mushroom compost extensively throughout the nursery, along with fermented plant teas, compost teas, and other biologically-derived inputs. This long-term fungal rich compost is exactly the kind of stuff trees and other woody perennials crave. Avoiding synthetic sources of N, P, and K may mean our plants need more time to grow to saleable size, but it also means healthier, hardier growth that is likely to succeed in the real world growing conditions in your back yard.

The plants we grow are selected because they perform well on our site (at least we hope they will!). Locally sourced plants tend to be much better adapted to our soils and weather conditions than plants shipped from hundreds of miles further south. Our plants experience the frigid winters, late frosts, droughts and deluges, and whatever weather phenomena mother nature throws at us.