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
Ashworth Bur Oak
Ashworth Bur Oak
Quercus sp.
2 year seedling
Acorns from selected northern New York strain of bur oak noted for its small sweet acorns and high yields. From legendary plant breeder, Fred Ashworth at St. Lawrence Nursery and further refined and introduced by Bill MacKently, Ashworth set the stage for the first named selection of an uncultivated oak just for 'edible' acorns low in tannins.
These trees are ‘hybrid’ seedlings from a grove of mostly improved oaks. But, it is possible to grow one of these trees and not get ‘sweet’ acorns. So, we are selling these trees for starter genetics and NOT “true-to-Ashworth” quality.
The mother of these trees is well adapted to heavy soils, so far the seedlings are too!
beauty; carbon sequestration; food for humans; firewood; livestock fodder
Grows to 100 ft, large tree