Pre-order Plants for Spring 2024 Shipping
Welcome to the Food Forest Farm plant shop! Here you’ll find many of the plants we’ve been growing in the nursery since 2010. These plants will come to you healthy and ready for their new home.
All of our plants are multi-functional, that is, some perennial vegetables can be eaten by a human, or livestock (leaf hay), or be grown as mulch for biomass, and more! You can look at “All” of the plants, or filter with the navigation bar.
Perennial Vegetables: edible roots, leaves, shoots, buds, seeds that come from perennial herbs, shrubs, and trees
Fruit: edible sweet goodness
Leaf Hay: plants to grow and feed to livestock like cattle, sheep, goats and rabbits
Biomass: herbs, grasses, shrubs and trees that grow fast and can be cut and used as mulch, grow soil, fuel stoves and compost piles
Ground Bean
Ground Bean
Also called hog peanut. Small herbaceous vine, self-sowing extensively. This fast expanding native shade ground cover produces edible beans above and below ground. Nitrogen-fixing. Cultivated by Eastern Native Americans for centuries. Your order will come with a few ground beans, enough to start a 1 meter patch at year two.
Also called hog peanut. Small herbaceous vine, self-sowing extensively. This fast expanding native shade ground cover produces edible beans above and below ground. Nitrogen-fixing. Cultivated by Native Americans for centuries.
Scientific Name: Amphicarpaea bracteata
Plant Hardiness Zone: 3
Fruit Size: Lentil-sized above ground, lima-bean sized below ground
Harvest: Fall through early spring beans
Light: Full sun to full shade