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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
Black currant cuttings
Black currant cuttings
3 cuttings per order
These bushes are very vigorous and productive. Ours are fruiting year two from cuttings. Taste is mild, and the best for fresh eating then most I’ve tried. We like them because they grow well in our heavy soils and seem to be deer resistant. Great for inner-cropping with other perennials as they can fruit in partial shade. We cut our canes in late winter and store them in a cool damp place covered in grow medium. Cuttings will have a callous on the rooting end, ready for you to pop in the ground or pots.
Mildew and white pine blister rust-resistant.
Black currants have outstanding health benefits, including high Vitamin C content, up to 5 times that of oranges by weight. They have twice the potassium of bananas and twice the antioxidants of blueberries. The antioxidants, essential fatty acids and potassium in black currants have anti- inflammatory impact, reducing the effects of arthritis. Its antioxidant action has been shown to help prevent cancer. They can be made into jam, syrup or dried as raisins. Bushes from these cuttings will grow to 4-5’ tall. USDA Zones 3-8.