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
Russian Comfrey
Russian Comfrey
Hybrid sterile form of comfrey, doesn't produce seeds. Great mulch plant and soil builder. Preferred habitat and egg-laying site for many beneficial insects and spiders. Useful medicinal. Edible in moderation. Breaking roots by tilling or digging will result in many new baby plants, choose location wisely. Our form is either ‘Bocking 14’ or ‘Bocking 4’ (cause we had both originally and they are very hard to tell apart), either way you are getting the best!
Russian Comfrey, sterile comfrey
Scientific Name: Symphytum x uplandicum
Hardiness zone: 4
Light: Sun to part shade
Mature Size: 4 feet by 4 feet
Uses: healing herb, mulch biomass plant, fodder for livestock, bumble bees love it