7 Layers Nursery

We will be closing the nursery in June of 2024 in preparation for a move to the Methow Valley. We will be hosting a 20% off plant sale on March 30 at our farm in Ferndale and then a final closing sale in April (Date TBD).

Click below to see our inventory for 2024

Medicinal Plants  I  Perennial Vegetables  I  Trees & Shrubs  I  Ground Covers, Canes & Vines  I  Seeds 

Permaculture Nursery in Ferndale, WA

We are a plant nursery run by Raven’s Roots Naturalist School in Ferndale, WA. Raven’s Roots teaches permaculture, herbalism, wild foraging, medicinal plants, medicine making, mushroom ID and foraging, wilderness survival, wildlife tracking and behavior, fermentation, basketry and many other self reliance and naturalist skills. Raven’s Roots also runs an apothecary from it’s 5 acre farm called Wayside Botanicals. The apothecary grows and harvests all of it’s own medicinal plants and sells teas, extracts, salves, hyrdosols and more on it’s website (link is above).

Since much of our curriculum revolves around permaculture, herbalism and plants, we thought that having a plant nursery would be a perfect addition to the school. We wanted our students to be able to go home with the plants that they learned how to identify, grow and harvest in class. We also wanted to be a plant nursery that offers our customers a comprehensive and hands on education on what to do with the plants when they get home.

In 2024 we will have regular business hours on Thursdays from 3-6pm (beginning in March through September). We will be also be hosting plant sales on one Saturday each month from March thru September as well (we will be releasing those dates shortly). If you cannot make it out on Thursdays or for our monthly plant sales, you can either order your plants from our online store for pickup or we can ship to you.

TYPES OF PLANTS THAT WE SELL:

We grow and sell perennial vegetables, medicinal, wildlife attracting and native plants from our farm in Whatcom county. We have grown all of the plants ourselves and have formed a deep connection with all of them. They have all been grown organically within a permaculture system and the majority of them are perennials, which overwinter well in NW Washington. If you’d like to learn more about us and our growing practices, visit our about us section here. You can sign up to our monthly mailing list at the bottom of this page.

Wel have over 120 species of plants available for sale and possibly even more. If you’d like to visit the nursery at another time during the week, please contact us at gabe@7layersnursery.com to make an appointment. We also are busy running a school (Raven’s Roots) and an apothecary (Wayside Botanicals) on our farm as well, so we will need at least 3 days notice for appointments.

If you would are new to permaculture or would like our advice on how to setup your permaculture garden at home, we can come out to your property and consult you on how to best get started and how and where to site the plants that we sell in our nursery. We are only offering gardening consultations to Skagit and Whatcom counties. All consultations outside of these counties will require an additional fee for gas and travel time. You can order a garden consultation by clicking the button below.

If you'd like to browse through our inventory of plants and place an order for pickup, please click on the ‘Buy Plants’ link at the top of the page. From there you can view medicinal plants, perennial vegetables, vines, trees and shrubs.