COMING SOON

The Self-Seeding Project is a place for our personal relationships with plants to be shared. Everyone has one, whether they know it or not. Maybe your Gram had the best smelling lilacs in town, like mine. Or that thicket of wild plums you used to hide in? What about that hickory your great-grandfather planted that drops nuts so big they’ll crack a skull? That photo above is my great-grandfather, Leo Allen, who was town-renowned for his sweet corn in Berwick, Maine. When it was ripe, he’d call his family, friends and neighbors in the morning and ask how many ears everyone wanted, and later, the whole crop would be cooked and devoured in one steamy, butter-drenched summer’s eve. I wish I had some of that seed.

I’ve been asking people in my community (geographic and internet), if they have a specific plant or tree that they have a story with. Over the coming years, I’ll ask people to collect seeds, or cuttings or other propagative material from their plant and give them to us to grow their offspring out here at the farm. I’ll document their story to be shared, here, along with the seedlings. Some of the seedlings will be offered back to the person and place that they came from, and some will be offered for sale, here. The stories will be compiled here for everyone to enjoy. If you or someone you know has a relationship or a story with a plant you’d like to share - please be in touch!