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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.  Above image: Briana Apricots fruit and nuts from 2022.





Cow Parsnip Seeds

Cow Parsnip Seeds

    Lake Superior Strain-Large and Tall Plant with Massive Umbels Cow parsnip..

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$120.00

Cranberry-Vibes American Cranberrybush Viburnum Seeds & Cuttings

Cranberry-Vibes American Cranberrybush Viburnum Seeds & Cuttings

   currently unavailable 'Cranberry-Vibes" is the first selection of Viburnum selecte..

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$220.00

Cultivated Selections of Vine Tepary Beans

Cultivated Selections of Vine Tepary Beans

currently unavailable Tepary beans have been cultivated extensively in the southwestern U.S. Many va..

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$80.00

Dosakai Cucumber Seeds

Dosakai Cucumber Seeds

   currently unavailable This species cucumber comes from India where it is used both raw ..

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$120.00

Dwarf American Hazelnut Seeds

Dwarf American Hazelnut Seeds

    SOLD OUT Natural dwarf form of American hazelnut found within populations at..

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$340.00

Dwarf Chinkapin Oak Acorns

Dwarf Chinkapin Oak Acorns

      Currently unavailable Shrub Oak -Heavy Early Acorn Production  Dwa..

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$320.00

Dwarf Korean Chestnut Nuts

Dwarf Korean Chestnut Nuts

   currently unavailable High Yielding Chestnut that Fruits Quickly From Seed This is o..

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$240.00

Ecos American Hazelnut Seeds

Ecos American Hazelnut Seeds

SOLD OUT Selected from our most precocious ECOS plants using only the heaviest bearing types includi..

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$220.00

Ecos Black Walnut Nuts

Ecos Black Walnut Nuts

currently unavailable Ecos Black Walnuts are selected from the seedlings of cultivars that I purchas..

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$220.00

Ecos Red Crabappple Seeds-"Waterfall" Scions

Ecos Red Crabappple Seeds-"Waterfall" Scions

 Sold out Selected seedlings from a group of seedling crabapples with very clean foliage and de..

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$240.00

Egusi Papershell Edible Seeded Watermelon

Egusi Papershell Edible Seeded Watermelon

  currently unavailable Wild Watermelon with Edible Seeds with Thin Shelled Seeds  ..

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$160.00

English-Black Walnut Nuts

English-Black Walnut Nuts

   There are many inter species  hybrid walnuts. Walnuts can cross with each oth..

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$240.00

Englishlive Oak Acorns

Englishlive Oak Acorns

currently unavailable This particular strain of hybrid oak has its origins in a breeding program by ..

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$220.00

Epic Catalpa-Ecos Selections

Epic Catalpa-Ecos Selections

   currently unavailable 'Epic' catalpa represents my life long interest in this genus sin..

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$160.00

European Bladdernut Nuts

European Bladdernut Nuts

The bladdernuts are a long forgotten food used at one time thousands of years ago for their kernels ..

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$220.00