Food or Fodder
The best trees and shrubs to feed your family or your animals.
Strawberries - $43
Strawberries (Zones 4–8)
Includes 12 ea:
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Chandler Strawberry – High-yielding June-bearing variety with large, juicy red berries perfect for fresh eating or preserves.
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Flamingo Strawberry – Unique everbearing pineberry with pale pink fruits, aromatic wild strawberry flavor, and excellent shelf life.
Bare root plants that will give you garden-fresh strawberries—perfect for jams, baking, or snacking. Easy to propagate if you let the runners set.
Support Guild - $75
Support Guild (Zones 4-8)
Includes 3 ea:
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Indigo Bush – Nitrogen-fixing shrub that builds soil fertility and controls erosion.
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Hackberry – Wildlife magnet providing food for birds and mammals while stabilizing soil.
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Lombardy Poplar – Fast-growing columnar tree ideal for windbreaks and quick privacy.
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Thornless Honeylocust – Open-canopy shade provider with nutrient-rich leaf litter and edible pods for livestock.
This versatile bundle enhances biodiversity, protects against wind and erosion, and supports sustainable homesteading at a fraction of individual retail costs—valued at over $150! Start building a resilient landscape today and snowball your self-reliance.
Fuelwood Guild - $73
Fuelwood Guild (Zones 4–9)
Includes 3 ea:
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Hybrid Poplar – Ultra-fast growth for quick firewood harvests and erosion control.
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American Hazelnut – Multi-stemmed shrub yielding edible nuts while providing dense wildlife cover and soil stabilization.
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Red Maple – Vibrant fall color with dense wood ideal for steady-burning fuel and one of the first spring foods for honeybees.
This powerhouse trio builds a resilient, low-maintenance system that slashes heating costs, boosts biodiversity, and supports your homestead’s energy independence— all at a fraction of retail prices for individual plants. Kickstart your sustainable fuel source today and get your homestead moving towards independence!
Bacon Trees - $72 SOLD OUT
Bacon Trees (Zones 5-9)
Includes:
- 3 Persimmon – Sweet, orange fruits loaded with carbs and vitamins that pigs, cattle, and wildlife can’t resist, dropping in fall for effortless foraging.
- 3 Red Mulberry – Juicy, nutrient-dense berries bursting with vitamins and protein-rich leaves, ideal for poultry, pigs, and boosting biodiversity.
- 3 Paw Paw – Custard-like, tropical-flavored fruits high in antioxidants and amino acids, a favorite for humans, deer, and pigs to pack on healthy weight.
This All American native tree bundle delivers sustainable, high-energy feed for your livestock, draws in game for hunters, and offers delicious harvests for your family—while slashing feed costs and building resilience. Don’t miss this steal at a fraction of retail (over $180 value)—grab yours now and transform your land into a self-sufficient paradise!
Oak Bonanza - $73
Oak Bonanza (Zones 5-9)
Includes:
- 3 Sawtooth Oak – Fast-growing early-dropper kicking off the acorn season in late summer, boosting biodiversity and offering high-energy fodder for animals.
- 3 White Oak – Iconic shade provider with sweet acorns that drop mid-season, perfect for whitetail deer habitat and livestock like forest-pastured pigs.
- 3 Chestnut Oak – Late-season acorn supplier on rugged terrain, delivering nutrient-rich mast for extended wildlife feeding and acorn-finished pork reminiscent of Spanish ham.
This powerhouse trio creates a staggered acorn drop from August through November, enhancing food security, soil stability, and homestead resilience while providing majestic shade—snowball your self-sufficiency with this bargain bundle! Start planting today for a thriving, low-maintenance legacy.
Fruit & Nut - $62 SOLD OUT
Bacon Trees (Zones 5-9)
Includes:
- 3 Chinese Chestnut – Disease-resistant trees yielding abundant, nutritious nuts for fresh eating or roasting.
- 3 Highbush Blueberry – Antioxidant-packed berries perfect for snacking, baking, or preserving, with vibrant fall foliage.
- 3 American Elderberry – Versatile fruits for immune-boosting syrups, jellies, and wines, while attracting pollinators and wildlife.
This all-in-one bundle delivers diverse, homegrown harvests to slash grocery bills, boost soil health, and foster biodiversity— all at a fraction of retail costs. Kickstart your path to self-reliant abundance today!
Fodder Trees 1X - $69
Fodder Tree Pack (Zones 4-9)
- 6 White Mulberry (Morus alba) – High-protein leaves, extremely digestible. The King of tree fodder.
- 3 Hybrid Willow (Salix x sp.) – Fast growth, adaptable to many conditions, easy to propagate.
This dynamic duo delivers nutrient-rich, low-maintenance fodder to cut feed costs and boost homestead resilience, while enhancing soil health and biodiversity. Start your path to feed store independence—add to cart today and snowball your self-reliance!
Fodder Trees 2x - $115
Fodder Tree Pack (Zones 3-10, Depending on Species)
- 12 White Mulberry (Morus alba) – High-protein leaves, extremely digestible. The King of tree fodder.
- 6 Hybrid Willow (Salix x sp.) – Fast growth, adaptable to many conditions, easy to propagate.
This dynamic duo delivers nutrient-rich, low-maintenance fodder to cut feed costs and boost homestead resilience, while enhancing soil health and biodiversity. Start your path to feed store independence—add to cart today and snowball your self-reliance!
Fodder Trees 4x - $205
Fodder Tree Pack (Zones 3-10, Depending on Species)
- 24 White Mulberry (Morus alba) – High-protein leaves, extremely digestible. The King of tree fodder.
- 12 Hybrid Willow (Salix x sp.) – Fast growth, adaptable to many conditions, easy to propagate.
This dynamic duo delivers nutrient-rich, low-maintenance fodder to cut feed costs and boost homestead resilience, while enhancing soil health and biodiversity. Start your path to feed store independence—add to cart today and snowball your self-reliance!
Hybrid Willow Cuttings - $TBD
Hybrid Willow Cuttings (Zones 3-9)
Includes:
- 10 – Large diameter willow cuttings
Fantastic fodder tree cultivar, this is my top pick for dead simple propagation. Fodder and Fuelwood! Best pick for feeding rabbits and stormwater mitigation. Stick them in the ground and let them grow!
Hybrid Poplar Cuttings - $TBD
Hybrid Poplar Cuttings (Zones 3-9)
Includes:
- 12 – Hybrid Poplar cuttings
Similar to Hybrid Willow, these Hybrid Poplar 8″–10″ unrooted cuttings are powerhouses of rapid growth. Fantastic fuelwood and fodder tree cultivar, this is in my top 3 for dead simple propagation. Fodder and Fuelwood! Best pick for feeding sheep, fuelwood production and stormwater mitigation. but where these shine is biomass for biochar and fuelwood for heating and cooking!
Bulk Hybrid Willow Cuttings - $TBD
Bulk Hybrid Willow Cuttings (Zones 3-9)
Includes:
- 40 – Hybrid Willow cuttings (Small to Medium diameter)
Same hybrid willow, these are smaller diameter and a larger bundle
Self Reliance
Keep your money in your pocket and grow food on your land.
Specific Cultivars
Carefully selected cultivars and varieties that you can trust to grow.
Combine & Save
Packages for any budget – or choose a combination and save!
Frequently asked questions
How do you handle delivery?
After receiving your order, we begin shipping when it is most appropriate for your area. We source most of our trees currently from growers out of state. We ship as soon as we can following receipt of trees from the growers. Plants are kept dormant either in ground or in refrigeration until it’s a good time to ship. Generally that means late winter. Whenever that time is, your plants will be packaged with care and shipped directly to you. Upon receiving your plants, it’s best to open them up, soak the roots in cool water for 30 minutes and immediately plant or pot up. If you cannot do so, you can keep them refrigerated for a while before planting, or heel in either in pots outdoors or in the ground to hold over until you are ready to plant.
When do my plants ship?
Plant packages ship as soon as we have trees from the growers. Normally for those in the southern US, we ship as soon as humanly possible. Northern locations are often delayed a couple weeks. But rest assured we do everything possible to ship out as soon as possible. Middle to end of March is the normal shipping window but that varies from year to year depending on weather factors.
I have a question, how do I contact you?
You can reach me at nick@homegrownliberty.com You can find out more about me and what I do at www.homegrownliberty.com
Why buy these package deals?
Because it’s the best deal you’re going to find. And because supporting the start of this business is going to bring more and better selections to you that will enable you to build out a thriving and productive home orchard and/or berry patch. Trying to buy individual plants piecemeal through normal online vendors ends up extremely expensive. It’s our goal to enable both new and experienced growers to purchase a variety of cultivars suited to their needs at rock bottom prices so you can get the space you’re growing absolutely filled with wonderful plants faster and more affordably.
What are fodder trees?
Fodder tree species are those that have been identified as being safe to feed to livestock as either fresh cut leaves or dried and stored just like grass hay. This is a historic practice going back thousands of years that is seeing a resurgence in those interested in self sufficient lifestyles and those seeking a lower cost and more healthy option for feeding their animals.
Why Buy from You?
You will be helping to launch a new nursery business unlike any you’ve seen before. Our focus is on small landowners who want to become self sufficient. We are currently propagating and preparing to sell several species and cultivars of rare plants especially suited for homesteading, farmsteading, off grid living, and any other way of defining a more self sufficient life. We are dedicated to finding historic fruits that have stood the test of time as well as breeding new versions that can withstand the rigors of establishing a resilient ecosystem on your land, or thriving in a lush and established system. We do seedling trials for survivability through drought and other pressures to develop new and exciting plant offerings found nowhere else in the world. And we want to do it in a way that you can afford to build a successful orchard as quick and affordable as possible!
Why plant fodder trees?
Fodder trees enable you to exponentially grow the amount of food you can feed livestock with no outside inputs onto your property. What this means is you keep money in your budget for other things, allowing you to snowball your efforts towards greater self-reliance and more financial security. If you have no animal feed bills, that means you keep all that money that would have left your control and frees it up to do things like pay down debt or develop other important infrastructure. We encourage you to consider planting your fodder trees years in advance of when you will need them to produce for you.
When are you going to have more plants for sale?
We are on track to hopefully have more than a dozen varieties of Fig, Blueberry, Blackberry, Muscadine, and many other small fruits ready for sale in upcoming years. That is only the beginning! There are some very exciting rare and unique fruits we have acquired or bred that will be growing to propagation size this year and will be available for purchasing in the future as the nursery grows.