Bunny Tails Grass Lagurus ovatus (110 days) If you’re looking for that special item to set your garden or flower arrangements apart, this soft, shimmering grass calls to the eye and beckons to be touched.  Fluffy grass heads rise straight up from compact plants; those grass heads age from white/green to cream and are excellent to cut for fresh or dried use.  Grows to 2’ and each plant produces a moderate quantity of flowers. Plant en masse at 9-12” spacing for higher impact in the landscape and greater stem quantity.  Packet (0.1g) ...

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Millet, Aukse's Foxtail (100 days) Setaria italica - Most typically grown for floral arrangements and bird seed. Tops are dense almost fluffy looking clusters of small seeds that grow from 4-10” long. Tops droop in a form that resembles a foxes tail. Lovely waving growth characteristic when caught by a breeze in the garden.  From our friends at Adaptive Seeds who obtained it while on their Seed Ambassadors Project by The Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture in Dotnuva, Lithuania, who wrote that “the breeder there had been working with millets since long before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the birds at the zoo prefer his varieties.”  Foxtail millet has a hull which is quite difficult to remove and as such used for the applications above more often than human consumption. Millets may have been consumed by humans for about 7,000 years and potentially had "a pivotal role in the rise of multi-crop agriculture and settled farming societies". Interestingly, millet is the 5th most commonly cultivated grain crop in the world after wheat, rice, corn and barley. HEIRLOOM. Packet 1g (~150 seeds) ...

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Milllet, Mukombi, Pearl type (110 days) Pennisetum glaucum - A striking Pearl millet type that we obtained from the Kenyan highlands. Plant is a tropical grass that resembles corn until seed heads form that rise 8-12’ above the grown like a valiant torch to the sun. Densely packed bluish ivory seeds cluster around the stem and grow from 10-20” long. They make a striking addition to larger floral displays and wreathes.  There are 4 major types of  millet which include Pearl (the most common grain type), Proso, Finger, and Foxtail (the type used for birdseed).  Millets may have been consumed by humans for about 7,000 years and potentially had "a pivotal role in the rise of multi-crop agriculture and settled farming societies". HEIRLOOM. Packet 2g (~300 seeds) ...

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Sorghum, Kenyan White (95 days) Sorghum bicolor - Sorghum is a large stout grass that grows up to 2.4 metres (7.9 ft) tall that is the world's 5th most planted cereal after wheat, corn, rice and barley. It has large bushy flowerheads or panicles that provide an edible starchy grain with up to 3,000 seeds in each flowerhead. It grows in warm climates worldwide for food and forage. The grain is used for food for humans; the plant is used for animal feed and ethanol production. Sorghum originated in Africa, and is now cultivated widely in tropical and subtropical regions. This variety was gathered in the Kenyan highlands and is highly uniform 6-8’ tall plants with ivory white, densely packed seed heads with about 3000 seeds per head. Impressive yields. Would make a great plant for growing your own poultry feed and stalks can be used to feed ruminants. De-seeded stalks can be used for broom making. HEIRLOOM Packet (4g) ...

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