The food forest
A young orchard planted the permaculture way: canopy fruit and nut trees, berry shrubs in the middle story, and comfrey, alliums, and herbs holding the floor. The extras — roots, bulbils, cuttings — go to the farm store.
A Missouri food forest & heritage flock
Every harvest has a story. Ours begins with thyme.
Story Thyme Farms is a small family farm planting a layered food forest — fruit and nut trees over berries, herbs, and hard-working perennials — with a barnyard flock scratching underneath. We share the eggs, the plants, and the story.
What we're growing
Three patches of one farm
Trees and perennials up top, chickens underneath,
and a printworks in the farmhouse.
The flock
A colourful barnyard mix ranging under the trees — they weed, they fertilise, and they lay. Fertile hatching eggs from the mix are our first farm product.
The printworks
Story Thyme Botanicals is our print shop: one hundred watercolour plates of herbs, wildflowers, and heritage chickens, printed to order as museum-grade giclée posters.
From the farm store
Straight from the field
Living things from our own beds and nest boxes,
packed with care.
Barnyard Mix Hatching Eggs
A fertile dozen from our free-ranging mixed flock — expect a rainbow basket and hardy, friendly birds.
Egyptian Walking Onion Bulbils
Twenty top-set bulbils of the perennial onion that replants itself — plant once, harvest green onions for years.
Bocking 14 Comfrey Cuttings
Five root cuttings of the sterile workhorse cultivar — chop-and-drop mulch, compost fuel, and pollinator flowers without the spread.
Story Thyme Botanicals
A field guide for your walls
One hundred plates — kitchen herbs, orchard fruit, wildflowers, desert natives, and twenty heritage chicken breeds — painted in vintage watercolour and printed to order at 300 DPI on museum-grade matte paper.
Every design comes as a crisp white plate or a moody black plate, in four standard frame sizes.
Browse all 100 designs
Find us elsewhere
Beyond the farm gate
eBay Storefront being set up
Plants, bulbils, and seasonal extras will list here for easy nationwide checkout.
ebay.com/usr/story-thyme-farms →TikTok Shop being set up
Short clips from the field, and farm goods sold right in the app once the shop clears review.
Shop code: USUSLCGBES3JWrite to the farm
Questions, local pickup, wholesale bulbils — we answer everything ourselves.
natehockey97@gmail.com →
Field notes
Latest from the farm
Bulbils are curing in the barn
The walking onions did their trick again — every stalk bowed over with a fresh cluster of top-sets. They're drying on screens now and will be ready to ship for fall planting.
First hatch of the summer
Twenty-one days of waiting, then peeping: the incubator gave us a healthy, noisy mix of chicks — proof the barnyard genetics are doing exactly what we hoped.