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
Switchgrass seedling ‘Independence’, bundle
Switchgrass seedling ‘Independence’, bundle
Switchgrass ‘Independence’ variety
We love this native grass. After much research we are experimenting with this hybrid lowland/upland variety for biomass and mulch production. So far doing well in our heavy soils, as well as can take seasonally dry conditions.
US Department of Energy has shown ‘Independence’ to be the highest yielding switchgrass in dry tons per acre.
It is a good windbreak and screen plant and provides excellent cover for ground nesting birds and small mammals as well as bedding areas for wildlife.
From Ernst Seed:
“Improved cultivar with increased winter survivability and biomass yield. Looks similar to and has retained basic morphology of 'Kanlow'. Fast establishing with vigorous seedling growth; maximum production can be achieved in the second year after establishment depending on planting year stand density; 5-6 tons per acre biomass yield potential. Good substitute for 'Kanlow'.”