I came upon Kollibri (below, curing tobacco leaves), and his farming partner, Nikki, thanks to their listing in the online collective called Local Harvest [dot] org. Why, I wondered, was my endless Nicotiana search, already many pages deep into Google results, taking me there?
I knew Local Harvest as a great place to find a nearby CSA farm to buy a share of, or to order farm-made cheeses or meats or even wildcrafted salves and soaps and such—but Nicotiana? Turns out that Kollibri and Nikki are former CSA farmers from the Portland, Oregon, area, and so the connection. And I couldn’t resist their online claim, under their internet store called Daggawalla Seeds and Herbs, founded in 2012 [UPDATE: Daggawalla is having a final sale and closing up shop in December 2015 so hurry!]:
“This is a one-of-a-kind offer that you’ll find nowhere else on the Internet. No other seed merchant offers this many different species of Nicotiana!”Besides various forms of familiar Nicotiana alata and an unnamed one they refer to as Nicotiana incognita, the 12-variety sampler pack I succumbed to instantly includes such goodies as:
Nicotiana glauca (top photo): To 30 feet tall in its native Argentina (it got to 14 feet for Daggawalla in Oregon their first year); yellow flowers, and the leaves are not Read more on awaytogarden.com