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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
Sassafras tree
Sassafras tree
Famous as a flavoring root beer, but this may blow your mind, Sassafras leaves are edible!
Spring leaves can be eaten as a salad green, or cooked like spinach. Also used as a soup thickener.
Traditionally used by many Native American tribes, also during the 18th century, enslaved West Africans in Louisiana melded their rich food traditions with Native American and European culinary influences, resulting in Louisiana Creole cuisine. Gumbo recipes thickened with okra, a traditional West African vegetable, are known as feví gumbo; gumbo thickened with powdered sassafras is known as filé gumbo.
Sassafras albidum
cold zone 4-9
grow best in moist, acidic, well-drained sites
birds eat the berries, an important host for several native moth and butterfly species. Pretty fall foliage