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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
Staghorn Sumac
Staghorn Sumac
Rhus typhina is a native deciduous shrub or small tree growing up to 16 ft tall by 20 ft broad or more.
We grow this plant for its fast growth in our soils, and that it is native to our region. The berries are important as a winter forage for birds. Sheep will eat the leaves as nutritious forage. Humans can eat the early shoots after stripping off the outer layer of green bark, tastes like lettuce!
The velvety texture and the forking pattern of the branches, reminiscent of antlers, have led to the common name "stag's horn sumac".Fruit can remain on plants from late summer through spring. Spreading by seeds and rhizomes and forming clones often with the older shoots in the center and younger shoots around central older ones.
Staghorn sumac is an ornamental plant which provides interest throughout the year; though its vigorous, suckering habit makes it unsuitable for smaller gardens. It can grow under a wide array of conditions, but is most often found in dry and poor soil on which other plants cannot survive.[