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Foundation Seed Stock-Ecos


Since first starting my nursery in 1979 I discovered, rediscovered, planted and created from scratch many useful food plants and timber trees for agriculture, horticulture and forestry. Instead of cultivars or varieties I focused first on the population rather than the individual. The result of that experimentation lead me to develop populations of many woody plants that are genetically diverse  that can be grown 'true' from seed in a wide variety of environmental conditions. This was the beginning of my foundation seed stock to draw from and now yours to grow from seed as well. 

This foundation stock represents some of the most healthful and versatile  woody perennials and perennial vegetables. The focus was to find plants that require minimal care yet provide a high level of nutrition as well as unique flavors not found in cultivated plants. Each plant that I harvest seeds from is selected for its high yields, disease resistance as well as its ease of use as it finds its way to its culinary end.  The plants grown from my this seed can provide both a living population to breed cultivars from or to use as is and reproduced ad infinitum from seed  as a population or a land race. Reproduction by seed allows the population to adapt over time due to climate changes or disease pressures. This makes cultivar development or even to use as a single 'strain' or land race a field of possibilities that can never become genetically stagnate.  This is the ECOS Oikos Tree Crops Foundation Seed Stock.

Cultivars are sometimes offered with the seeds including scions, cuttings, budwood and roots or tubers. This will allow you to continue the varietal selection that I created here at my farm as well as make it available to others either as a nursery or use in a farming situation. From seed, these selections represent a unique slice of a species available to use as is in seedling plantings without the guess work of where did my seed come from. 

Seeds are shipped immediately along with the scions or cuttings during the dormant season. It varies from year to year on what crops are available.  No international seed shipping including Canada is allowed. No pick up direct from the farm or phone orders. No small packet sizes are available. 





Chinese Cork Oak Acorns

Chinese Cork Oak Acorns

 Chinese cork oak is a hardy species of oak from Japan, China and Korea. The corky bark, straig..

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$220.00

Cloud Lima Bean Seeds

Cloud Lima Bean Seeds

   Contains 4 Packets for Recreation and Further Development of a Perennial Lima Bean.&nbs..

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$82.00

Crispy Snack Hog Peanut Seeds

Crispy Snack Hog Peanut Seeds

Excellent Nitrogen Fixing Plant For the Shade of Other Trees and Shrubs This is a selected hog pe..

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$120.00

Dunbars Plum Seeds

Dunbars Plum Seeds

     Clean High Quality Fruits Produced with No Spray-Immune to Disease and Inse..

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$180.00

Ecos Crabapple Seeds

Ecos Crabapple Seeds

 Selected seedling apples from our seedling crabapples with very clean foliage and dense cluste..

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$140.00

ECOS Pear Seeds

ECOS Pear Seeds

    The Ecos pears were developed from a single tree found in Michigan. The tree's ..

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$240.00

Ecos Red Apple Seeds-Scions

Ecos Red Apple Seeds-Scions

Dessert Quality Low Spray Apple-Ripens in October This seedling apple was found  in one of o..

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$120.00

Flava American Plum Seeds

Flava American Plum Seeds

 Yellow fruited American plum is one of the few selections of from seed plums that can be repro..

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$120.00

Florida Pie Pear Seeds &"Pie-in-the-Sky"

Florida Pie Pear Seeds &"Pie-in-the-Sky"

Florida pie pear or Florida sand pear is a species complex of an Asian pear that has become naturali..

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$220.00

Gooseasaw Plum Seeds

Gooseasaw Plum Seeds

   Chickasaw and Wild Goose Plum Hybrid-Grown and Selected from Seed to Tree to Seed Again..

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$140.00

Greatfull Chinkapin-Bur Oak Hybrid Oak Acorns

Greatfull Chinkapin-Bur Oak Hybrid Oak Acorns

Selected seedling of Ooti oak selected for high yielding and vigorous tree with strong upright form ..

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$180.00

Green Blanket Wild Squash-Gourd

Green Blanket Wild Squash-Gourd

   "Green Blanket" : Selected from Cucurbita pepo ozarkana and wild Peruvian pumpkin hybri..

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$48.00

Hewes Crabapple Seeds and Scions

Hewes Crabapple Seeds and Scions

  Hewes is a Virginia crab hybrid complex which comes close to true from seed crabapple. A..

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$240.00

Hulless Styrian Pumpkin Seeds

Hulless Styrian Pumpkin Seeds

    This unique selection of pumpkin is grown specifically for its seeds which d..

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$60.00

Iowa Blackhaw Viburnum Seeds

Iowa Blackhaw Viburnum Seeds

 Raisin Like Flavor-Easy to Process-Delicious Fresh-Fast Growing and Durable ViburnumThis Iowa ..

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$210.00