Plant and Pray

Garden Share, 2024

Your invited to enjoy surplus produce from my organic garden, and eat delicious vegetables in 2024! 

They’ll be  available to buy on Tuesday mornings 9am-12pm at my workshop, depending on what is abundant that week. Call ahead, Pay what you can.

I’ll update the website with what is fresh that week. Right now, things are growing, and I’m still planting.

Tree Nursery

I am pleased to offer tree seedlings in 2024. I currently have have chestnut-hybrids, american chestnuts, butternuts, and colorado blue spruce.

The chestnuts are 2-3 yr seedlings whose parent trees grow near my home. I estimate that they are 100-110 years old. A researcher with American Chestnut Foundation identified samples I sent to them as a cross of European and American trees (Castanea sativa x dentata.) I also have 20 1yr seedlings of Castanea dentata from trees growing in Tumwater.

These seedlings will happily grow in a well-drained, sunny, slightly acidic place.  They would make wonderful shade trees, and is you plant two or more for pollination, they will produce nuts for food and wildlife forage. Since these are seedling trees, their characteristics may vary a bit, but that is the fun of planting them out. You can watch and see how they grow. Consider the shade and good they can provide to present and future generation on this planet.

Butternuts (Juglans cinerea) will be available in pots, and for shipping bare-root in March 2024.

Blue spruce (Picea pungens) are a beautiful grey-blue color, and would make good trees for habitat, wind-shelter and landscape planting, or experimenting with spruce bonsai.

They are all available potted for $30/tree.

Trees are free for churches planting 10 or more. Donations to the workshop are gladly and gratefully accepted.

Do you own a lot or parcel of land? What about your church, or a club? Maybe some common or vacant land that you and some neighbors might tend together? Or, Trees can be a beautiful memorial, and a prayer offered for those to come. If you order 20 or more trees, and live within about 100 miles of Olympia, I would offer my time to deliver trees and meet you. Your paying for gas is appreciated. A financial gift to the workshop supports this tree-planting ministry. Just another way to help people plant and tend trees together on earth. If you are interested in one or more, please contact me.