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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
Pitch Pine x Loblolly Pine
Pitch Pine x Loblolly Pine
Pinus rigida X taeda
Pitlolly combines the cold hardiness, drought tolerance, and vigor of Pitch Pine with the larger mature size, heat tolerance, moist soil tolerance, straighter trunk, and vigor of Loblolly Pine. This hybrid is being introduced as a pine that will grow just about anywhere and in almost any soil, for all purposes -- erosion control, evergreen screen, wildlife refuge, and for timber.
We are now growing this tree as a wind and view screen. We will also trial the potential of this tree as a coppice species for firewood in our wood lot.
It just so happens that one of the parents of this hybrid, Pitch Pine, is a fire-dependent tree. It readily sprouts from the burned trunk or root stocks to regenerate. So our hope is once we get the tree established we will be able to cut the trunk and then train the new sprouts to produce firewood.