Pre-order Plants for Spring 2026 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
Butternut butterheart seed
Butternut butterheart seed
You’ll need two trees (seed) for best pollination
We are offering seed from a ‘Kenworthy’ parent tree. This seed likely has hybridized with the surrounding Japanese heartnuts, so seed might be butternut (Juglans cinerea) and heartnut (Juglans ailantifolia) cross. (There is also a possibility that some seedlings will be butternuts).
The mother of the seed is canker free after 30 years.
Because most butternuts are now very susceptible to a deadly canker disease, butterhearts (Buartnuts) are a more reliable survivor, with similar qualities to butternut, AND thinner shells for easier cracking. And they taste delicious!
We are selling pre-stratified seed, so germination will be high, arriving to you in spring 2026.