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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.

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 often offered with the seeds include 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. 





Ocean Blue Sloe Plum Seeds

Ocean Blue Sloe Plum Seeds

   The Ocean is Blue-So is the Sloe PlumSelected from 100 percent immune to black kno..

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$180.00

Ooti Oak-Bur Chinkapin Oak Hybrid Acorns-Scions

Ooti Oak-Bur Chinkapin Oak Hybrid Acorns-Scions

This was one of the first selections of oak that was produced at my farm for a low tannin acorn. The..

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$160.00

Oriental White Oak Acorns

Oriental White Oak Acorns

   Oriental White Oak represents a species oak used for its edible acorns as well as floor..

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$220.00

Ozark Wild Gourd Seeds

Ozark Wild Gourd Seeds

The Ozark wild gourd represents a wild form of annual gourd that grows in the southwestern and midwe..

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$92.00

Paradise Apple Seeds

Paradise Apple Seeds

    This species is well known as one of the species complex of modern day apple..

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$120.00

Pawpaw Seeds

Pawpaw Seeds

  The Northern Banana-Pawpaw Seed From the Most Northern Part of its Range in North Americ..

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$120.00

Perennial Perpetual Diversity Potato Tubers -Seeds

Perennial Perpetual Diversity Potato Tubers -Seeds

 Selected for hardiness in the ground as well as fruitfulness for true seed production of Peren..

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$120.00

Plentiful Crabapple Seeds and Scions

Plentiful Crabapple Seeds and Scions

Bright Red Color Fruit-Extremely Hardy Alaskan Apple with Clean Disease Free Foliage Selecte..

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$120.00

Red Planet Plum Seeds-Scions

Red Planet Plum Seeds-Scions

"Red Planet" represents a new variety of plum found as a natural hybrid of two indigenous North Amer..

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$160.00

Red Runner American Plum Seeds-Stolon

Red Runner American Plum Seeds-Stolon

This dwarf American plum selection was one of a very few seedlings at our farm of American plum that..

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$180.00

Red Willow Oak Acorns-Bartram Oak-Ecos Selection

Red Willow Oak Acorns-Bartram Oak-Ecos Selection

       Bartram Oak-Cultivated Seed Source-Population of Quercus x heterophy..

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$140.00

Sweet Heaven Precocious Rose Seeds

Sweet Heaven Precocious Rose Seeds

Vigorous Seedling Growth-Heavenly Fragrance-Heavy Hip Production-Large Plant This seedling hybr..

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$180.00

Tepary Bean Seeds-Ecos Selections

Tepary Bean Seeds-Ecos Selections

  This southwestern annual bean species is a vigorous vine growing 15-20 ft. in a single y..

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$40.00

Timburr Chestnut Nuts and Scions

Timburr Chestnut Nuts and Scions

     Tall Straight Timber Growth Habit - Good Nut Production-Strong Resistance to Che..

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$150.00

Turkey Oak Acorns Ecos

Turkey Oak Acorns Ecos

  Vigorous Growing Species Oak-Large Acorns-Northern Seed Selection True to Type From c..

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$180.00