Pre-order Plants for Spring 2025 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
Elderberry cuttings
Elderberry cuttings
3 cuttings per order
For many winters now we’ve been juicing our elderberry fruits. Such a wonderful tonic in the middle of winter to re-energize the body and soul. Start your own patch of elderberry and enjoy the flowers and fruit, or chop down the canes in the fall as mulch to feed the soil, as the canes will regrow each spring. This glorious native shrub feeds us and the wildlife. Our chickens like to graze the dropped berries too!
We are shipping a mix of cuttings in our inventory. Sambucus canadensis cuttings are from the wild on our farm. Other cuttings may be hybrids of improved types, they may have some European genetics, Sambucus nigra x canadensis. Our hope is to offer named varieties in the future as our selection expands and we see which do best in our soils, have good fruit, early flowers and express disease resistance.