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Fruit & Forage

A Wild-Rooted Nursery in Western North Carolina

Transform Your Land into a Thriving Edible Ecosystem

​Whether you’re nurturing a backyard orchard, maintaining a food forest, or want help with wild edible landscaping — we’re here to make it easier, healthier, and more regenerative.

Fruit & Forage Offerings

  • Perennial Plant Nursery:

Fruit & Nut Trees, Perennial Shrubs, Ground Covers, Wild Edibles, Medicinals, Herbs, and Pollinators

  • Perennial System Development &  Maintenance:

Design, development, & maintenance: pruning, soil health, planting, mulching & more

  • Property System Consultation:

Lets talk about your goals and how we can improve your property.

In person (WNC) or via phone/virtual. 

  • ​Regenerative Development:

Development of land into thriving communities infused with perennial systems that provide abundance.

Orchard with chickens. Silvopasture system.
Featured Plants

Featured Plants We Work With:

Abundant. Wild. Passionate.

We work with a diverse palette of perennial plants uniquely suited to Western North Carolina’s climate and soils. From resilient nut and fruit trees to nutrient-rich shrubs, herbal medicinals, ground covers, pollinator attractors, and wild edibles—each plant is chosen for its ecological value, low maintenance needs, and ability to thrive in layered, regenerative landscapes.

Hand holding cehstnut.

NUT TREES

  • Chestnut

  • Hazelnut

  • Walnut

  • Oak

  • Hickory

Hardy and long-lived, nut trees like chestnut, walnut, and hazelnut provide nutrient-dense food while anchoring the upper canopy of edible ecosystems.

Picking an apple

FRUIT TREES

  • Persimmon

  • Apple

  • Pear

  • Plum

  • Pawpaw

From apple to paw paw, our fruit trees offer seasonal abundance, beauty, and biodiversity tailored to the Southern Appalachian region.

blueberry shrub

SHRUBS

  • Elderberry

  • Aronia

  • Goji Berry

  • Gooseberry

  • Blueberry

Shrubs like elderberry, aronia, and blueberry are compact powerhouses—rich in antioxidants, wildlife-friendly, and perfect for food and medicine.

clover ground cover

GROUND COVERS

  • Clover

  • Creeping Thyme

  • Wild Ginger

  • Wild Strawberry

  • Mint

Low-growing plants like clover, mint, and wild strawberry protect the soil, suppress weeds, and provide forage for pollinators and people alike.

yarrow

HERBS & MEDICINALS

  • Yarrow

  • Echinacea

  • Lemon Balm

  • Bee Balm

  • Comfrey

We grow healing plants like yarrow, lemon balm, and comfrey to support wellness, enrich the soil, and bring pollinators buzzing.

butterfly on a pollinator plant

POLLINATORS

  • Milkweed

  • Joe-Pye Weed

  • Anise Hyssop

  • Goldenrod

  • Aster

Pollinator plants such as milkweed, goldenrod, and anise hyssop help create a thriving habitat for bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects.

fern unraveling

WILD EDIBLES

  • Ramps

  • Fiddleheads

  • Chickweed

  • Violet

  • Wood Sorrel

Nutrient-rich and rooted in Appalachian tradition, wild edibles like ramps, fiddleheads, and sorrel reconnect us to seasonal cycles and the gifts of the forest.

Offerings

Offerings

Four ecological & simple ways to improve your ecosystem.

Nursery Stock: Native & Edible Plants

Healthy, Regionally Adapted Plants for Regenerative Landscapes

We offer a curated selection of hardy, low-maintenance perennials—nut trees, fruit trees, medicinal herbs, ground covers, wild edibles and pollinator species—all suited for the soils and seasons of Western North Carolina. Perfect for creating edible ecosystems and low-input food forests.

Available As: Bare root, potted, or delivered-to-site

Agroforestry & Orchard Maintenance

Seasonal Care for Edible Systems & Backyard Orchards

We provide light-touch, high-impact maintenance services to help your existing orchard, forest garden, or permaculture system thrive. Services include tending, mulching, pruning, companion planting, and soil health checks to keep your landscape productive and resilient.

Ideal For: New or established systems in need of seasonal upkeep

Site Consultation & Landscape Design

Start Smart: Design with the Land in Mind

From backyard edible gardens to small-scale forest farms, we offer one-on-one consultations to assess your site, set goals, and build a regenerative plan tailored to your land and lifestyle. Get expert guidance on what to plant, where, and how to care for it long-term.

Includes: Local On-site or virtual visit + custom plant recommendations

Regenerative Development

Living in abundance

We create small neighborhoods where homes and nature work together. Each community is surrounded by fruit and nut trees, gardens, open green spaces, and restored natural areas. The result is a peaceful place to live where the land grows healthier every year and people feel deeply connected to it.

Lets talk about how we can work together to develop this concept. 

***Currently searching for land to develop this model***

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