Foundation Seed Stock

Seeds selected from my best selections collected this fall. All seeds are processed for maximum germination.

Ecos Seeds

'Michigan' Tree Collards

Selected for hardiness and vigorous growth, 'Michigan' is one of a few perennial brassicas able to grow outdoors year round. Grow it now. Cuttings available.

Hardy Tree Brassica

Perennial Thicket Beans

Rare in cultivation, this perennial bean is delicious to eat and easy to grow. 9000 thousand years ago, it was the bean first domesticated prior to annual beans.

Wild Bean Seeds Available

Precocious Hazelnuts

Immune to blight, lateral bearing means heavy yielding under many climatic conditions. 30 years of trials led to the Precocious Seed Strain.

Hazelnut Seeds

Family Ideas-Generations

Growing trees has been a family affair starting with Christmas tree farms in the 1960's. Today this lives on with the introduction of the Oikos Tree Crops Ecos Seed stock which allows you to create your own varieties for your family and the world's family.

Seeds

Chickasaw Goose Plum Seeds

Fast growing with clean foliage,no suckering or damage from bugs or diseases.

Gooseasaw Plum Seeds

Peruvian Tree Pepper

Long lived tree pepper can be kept indoors in winter. Early ripening hot yellow fleshy type peppers.

Yellow Peruvian Tree Pepper

Ashe's Magnolia

Florida native thrives in Michigan. Spread the seed of this large leaved Magnolia. YES MICHIGAN SPECIES

Ashe's Magnolia Seed

Abundant Shellbark Hickory

Largest nuts in the world of hickories. Selected specifically for high yields. Natural hybrid of shagbark and shellbark hickories.

Abundant Hickory Nuts

Seeds-Inventory

The inventory and pricing on this website reflects the whole seed crop of each plant collected in 2021. The nursery no longer produces plants but seeds will be made available. Here is my daughter in a field of rye, the last thing my father and I planted together on my families Christmas tree farm many years ago in a field of what was once a stand of Scotch pine and Norway spruce.

FOUNDATION SEED STOCK

Northern American Persimmon Seed

Selected for high yields, large fruit, good quality and (very important in Michigan) early ripening. Get the seeds to create a new tree crop outside of its native range. Sweet as the persimmon!

Persimmon Seeds

Perennial Perpetual Diversity Potato

Selected for high yields, over wintering ability and ability to fruit and set seeds. This is the potato to grow so that will allow you to discontinue buying seed potatoes forever.

Potato True Seed plus Tubers

Wild Bean Seeds

Available again after 9000 years, now you can grow it and make it part of your diet.

Thicket Beans

Perennial Potato Tubers & Seeds

Selected for fruitfulness and hardiness this potato is perpetual both in producing true seeds and able to withstand cold soil temperatures which allows them to overwinter outside.

Seeds &Tubers

Precocious Hazelnut Seeds

Seeds selected from my best hybrid plants developed over the course of 30 years. Immune to blight and lateral bearing.

Hazelnut Seeds

Chickasaw Wild Goose Plum Hybrid

Incredibly vigorous plum able to establish and fruit in poor soils. Tart fruits are produced free of insect and disease damage.

Plum Seeds

Peruvian Tree Pepper

Tall, vigorous pepper with hot fleshy thick walled peppers

Tree Pepper

Join me on Instagram

Join me as I post images of many new plants recently fruiting at my farm and the story behind the plants.

Instagram oikostreecrops

Seeds

Seeds from Our Farm-New Selections Available Weekly During the Harvest Season. Do you need seeds for a specific project? Contact me for questions on my seed selections and germination tips. My seeds will provide a means to develop your own cultivars as well as continue the Oikos Tree Crops-Ecos seed strains. Working on a community based tree crop forest? Lets connect.

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Michigan Tree Collards

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$240.00

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