Plump Plants
- sea buckthorn
Sea Buckthorn — Food Forest Protection and Fruit of the Gods
Sea buckthorn shouldn’t be the northern edible darling that it is. It’s got huge thorns. The berries are so tart they’re almost inedible. It’s impossible to harvest other than painstakingly by hand (although there’s a trick I’ll get into later). It suckers like crazy and can overwhelm other plants if you’re not careful. And yet, it’s all over permaculture, natural health, and northern growing blogs and websites. What gives? It’s no accident that sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) has the word THORN in it. The plant is technically a shrub, but it can grow to tree-like heights of 25 feet plus. The...