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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
Giant Korean Celery
Giant Korean Celery
Self-sowing perennial herb, attracts beneficial insects. Native to Korea. Celery-flavored leaves and stalk are tasty in soups, good for animal fodder too. Very mild not like it's cousin lovage. Also called Korean pig plant, and Seombadi
Giant Korean celery, pig plant, Seombadi
Scientific Name: Dystaenia takesimana
Plant Hardiness Zone: 4
Size: Large perennial herb, 5 ft tall in good soil
Harvest: Cooked new leaves, stalk
Light: Sun to partial shade
Taste: Celery
Years to bear: 1
Uses: food, livestock fodder, beneficial insect plant