Description

3 – Indigo Bush

3 – Hackberry

3 – Hybrid Poplar

3 – Thornless Honeylocust

Wholesale prices online for this would be around $150, retail potted around $240+

Build a rock-solid foundation for your homestead with the Support Guild Pack—the ultimate permaculture-inspired support team designed to fix nitrogen, prevent erosion, boost biodiversity, and provide versatile biomass for chop-and-drop, mulch, and advanced soil-building techniques like biochar and Johnson-Su bioreactors. Perfect for homesteaders and small-scale farmers who follow my friend Jack’s TSP-style preparedness, this pack delivers fast-growing, adaptable species that work together to enrich your soil naturally, support wildlife and livestock, and reduce long-term reliance on fertilizers or feed stores. At just $60 for three of each—less than a quarter of what you’d pay retail—it’s an unbeatable shortcut to greater food security, financial independence, and a thriving, sustainable landscape that snowballs your self-reliance efforts. Plant this spring to create a resilient ecosystem ready for whatever comes next!

This package is best grown in a massive range of zones 4-9. Conservation Grade bare root plants 1′-2′ tall

Indigo Bush – Amorpha fruticosa

USDA 4-9

This vigorous shrub reaches 10-16 feet tall in full sun to partial shade, thriving in a wide range of soils from moist to dry, sandy to clay, and climates spanning Canada to Florida. A powerhouse nitrogen fixer, it naturally improves soil fertility without synthetic inputs, while its vibrant purple flowers attract bees, butterflies, and other pollinators to enhance biodiversity. Excellent for supporting fruit trees, gardens, or livestock-excluded zones (note: potentially toxic to some ruminants, so site thoughtfully), it’s a beautiful, low-maintenance addition that propagates easily for exponential growth. These establish quickly to anchor and feed your permaculture system. Bare root tree Conservation Grade 1′-2′.

Hackberry – Celtis occidentalis

USDA 3-9

This durable native tree grows 50-80 feet tall in full sun to partial shade, excelling in poor, compacted, wet, or drought-prone soils—making it a go-to for challenging sites. It delivers outstanding wildlife value with persistent berries that feed birds, squirrels, and deer through winter, plus dense canopy for shelter and erosion control on slopes. Coppice it for moderate-heat firewood (around 20-21 million BTUs per cord, easy to split with steady burns) or let branches rot fast into premium hardwood mulch ideal for Johnson-Su bioreactors. These trees grow steadily to provide lasting resilience and habitat. Bare root tree Conservation Grade 1′-2′.

Hybrid Poplar – Populus x sp.

USDA 3-9
Grows like a weed and handles being coppiced and pollarded exceedingly well. Grows from Canada to the Gulf and coast to coast easily. We routinely get 12’+ growth each year. Get about 5-10 cords of fuel per year per acre with Hybrid Poplar. It may be a lighter wood than white oak at about half the BTUs but it grows WAY faster. So if you heat with 2-5 cords of oak per year, then you can be firewood independent with a single acre of coppiced Poplar. You can propagate these with simple first year growth cuttings almost any time of the year. Feed for any herbivore from the leaves, some animals aren’t fond of it, others love it. But no toxicity issues with even horses. And of course it makes a fantastic and cheap option for windbreaks as you just walk down the row shoving sticks in the ground to plant a free windbreak or snow fence. Essential homestead tool for the savvy preparedness minded individual. Bare root tree Conservation Grade 1′-2′.

Thornless Honeylocust – Gleditsia triacanthos inermis

USDA 4-9

This adaptable tree grows 50-70 feet tall in full sun, handling compacted, droughty, or occasionally wet soils with neutral to alkaline pH. A true nitrogen fixer with leaves rich in 2.1-2.9% nitrogen for green-manure-style soil improvement, it produces sweet, nutrient-dense pods as high-protein and high sugar fodder for livestock, wildlife, or even human use—cutting feed costs. Its open canopy provides dappled shade perfect for silvopasture grasses, while attracting pollinators and supporting coppicing for biomass. Again, I always look for function stacking and these trees look great in the fall with a brilliant yellow color. (Note: seeds may produce thorny offspring, so monitor regrowth. For a funny story, look up what happened with Bill Mollison and this tree) Bare root tree Conservation Grade 1′-2′.

Plant in spring or fall with generous mulch to lock in moisture and suppress weeds; water consistently the first year to build strong roots, then let their toughness take over with little ongoing care. A light application of organic fertilizer can jumpstart growth, but these hardy species excel on minimal inputs. First they sleep, then they creep, then they leap into a fully supportive, self-sustaining homestead—secure your pack today and take the next step toward true independence!