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
Turkish Rocket
Turkish Rocket
Robust, long-lived plant. Spreads by seed, roots will sprout when damaged. Beautiful yellow flowers loved by hoover flies. Young broccolis are much like broccoli rabe - nutty and mustardy. Romans distributed the seed across Europe as an important horse fodder when traveling between conquests.
Turkish rocket, warty-cabbage, hill mustard
Scientific Name: Bunias orientalis
Plant Hardiness Zone: 4
Light: Full sun to partial shade
Soil Composition: Suitable for all soil types
Moisture: From moist to very dry, takes drought well, doesn’t like it super wet