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Land & nursery

Nursery & land

Building toward the largest native plant nursery in Washington state and the western seaboard — restoring understory life and anchoring long-term stewardship.

Why a nursery

Transparent tradeable value for forestry and farm land starts with living systems on the ground. A native plant nursery is not a side project — it is the living proof of the mission.

We focus on Olympic Peninsula natives that restore understory, support wildlife habitat, and keep land productive without treating timber as the only story.

The nursery also creates a place for education, partnership, and patient capital: wealth that compounds across generations, not quarters.

Scale of ambition

Our go-to-market vision is clear: become the largest native plant nursery in Washington state and across the western seaboard.

Scale here is not vanity. It is the volume needed to supply municipalities, landowners, and restoration partners with regionally right plants — at the pace land conversion actually requires.

Olympic Peninsula campus

The nursery is anchored on the Olympic Peninsula in a vertically integrated campus: propagation, growing-out, and applied testing under one stewardship roof.

That integration lets us evaluate plants not only for restoration and landscaping, but for medicinal use and food consumption — so the understory story includes health and harvest, not only habitat.

Propagation to planting

Native stock grown for peninsula and western seaboard conditions, ready for restoration and municipal projects.

Medicinal pathways

Campus facilities support careful testing of plants for medicinal use, aligned with stewardship and partner standards.

Food & forage

Evaluate edible and forage natives so land value includes what communities can grow and share — not timber alone.

Wildcraft & clean growing

Every plant we put into the ground starts the same way: 100% wildcraft harvested. No shortcuts that leave petroleum, herbicides, or synthetic residues in the soil.

100% wildcraft harvested

Nursery stock is wildcraft harvested — rooted in place-based genetics that belong on this land, not industrial monoculture lines.

No petroleum, glyphosate, or pesticides

We do not use petroleum products, glyphosate herbicides, or pesticides. Clean growing is non-negotiable for restoration, medicinal pathways, and food consumption.

Organic fertilization only

When plants need a feed, fertilization uses 100% organic fertilizer material — nothing synthetic in the soil story.

Forest waste into organic pots

We turn forest waste product into organic pots and boxes — closing the loop so what the woods leave behind becomes the vessel that carries the next planting.

Municipal conversion wedge

Cities and local municipalities sit on miles of grass and sod that cost water, mowing, and fire risk. We teach and supply a better path: remove turf, plant natives, and keep the savings.

Lower maintenance

Native plantings reduce the endless cycle of mowing, fertilizing, and seasonal replant that turf demands.

Less water

Drought-tolerant natives cut irrigation budgets — a cost-savings argument that holds in dry summers and tight municipal ledgers.

Greater fire resistance

Right plantings and understory design can improve landscape fire resilience compared with thirsty, flashy turf corridors.

The wedge is practical: we sell outcomes cities already fund — lower opex, water stewardship, and safer ground — delivered through native plants and lasting relationships.

Smart contracts, pre-harvest to post-harvest

Nursery and land programs are designed so agreements can span the full cycle: commitments before plants leave the ground, and accountability after they are planted and performing.

Smart contracts carry that span — pre-harvest growing and delivery terms, and post-harvest stewardship milestones — so municipalities, landowners, and partners share transparent expectations without opaque middle layers.

Pre-harvest

Lock species mixes, volumes, delivery windows, and quality expectations while stock is still in production.

Post-harvest

Carry planting, establishment, and performance checkpoints so value continues after the truck leaves the nursery.

Stewardship pillars

Native first

Prioritize regionally appropriate species that belong on this land.

Understory value

Recognize that biodiversity beneath the canopy carries real worth.

Long horizon

Decide for the decades ahead, not the next quarter.

Shared upside

Structure value so landowners, partners, and First Nations participants all share in it.

Walk the land with us

Interested in nursery partnership, municipal conversion, or visiting the peninsula campus? Send a note.

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