Food is essential to culture, and its diversity is representative of our heritage.  As our diets become more global, cultures meld.  In the preservation of plants is the preservation of civilizations.

We offer a unique Nursery Service.  If there is a plant that you need for a project, we can arrange to propagate it for you in our greenhouse.  Our location never frosts, so we can grow a wide variety of subtropical and temperate climate varieties.

If we do not have the genetic material on-hand, we can source it out and grow it out for you.  Our specialty is to provide quality plants that are hard to find and have economic or food potential. 

Andean Roots

The Incas were extraordinary horticulturalists.  They turned their wild plants into hardy root vegetables.  Through generations of selection, they bred highly nutritious root crops like oca, mashua, achira, and yacon, among others.

These plants are all perennials and therefor do not need to be sown every year.  They all work very well in the low-maintenance garden.  They are all very nutritious and tasty.  And perhaps best of all, they are all beautiful plants on their own.

Fruit Trees

Our collection of subtropical and deciduous fruit trees are source for bud wood and cuttings.  We offer over 12 varieties of figs, 8 mullberry, 8 cherimoya, 5 banana, and many more hard to find food plants.

We grow open pollinated varieties of fruit trees as much as possible.  This means that they can be propagated from seed and the same or very similar fruit will be produced by the progeny.