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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
Wild Senna
Wild Senna
Native nitrogen fixing clumping herbaceous shrub grows to 6 feet tall. Grown as a wild flower, and also can be incorporated into a forest garden to support other plants and build soil, or grown in a pasture for grazing as it is palatable and nutritious for livestock. Leaves can be used as a laxative tea, and has other medicinal properties.
Wild Senna, American senna
Scientific name: Senna hebecarpa
Soil and water needs: very adaptable, from wet to dry
Light: Sun to part shade
Uses: livestock fodder, native insect habitat, laxative tea