We provide the following:

Elderberry

Black Cherries

Chokeberry

Wild Plum

Paw Paw

Persimmon

Blueberries

Strawberries

Echinacea

Aster Variations

Brown Eyed Susans

Daisy

Bee Balm

St. Johns Wort

Basil

Lavendar

Chocolate Mint

Sage (3 Varieties)

Stevia

Rosemary

Various House Plants

Yarrow

Valerian

…and growing!

 Coahoma Orchards

Coahoma Orchards is an urban orchard “direct action” dedicated to the cross cultural heritage of Native and African people. This multi-site orchard grows chokeberry, plums, black cherries with perennial herbs and flowers. We are in the Greater Ville, Jeff Vanderlou, Wells-Goodfellow, and Baden neighborhoods of North Saint Louis, Missouri. We steward an educational farm site that includes genealogy, storytelling and regenerative farming models.

Read more about air pollution here through Capital B News on EPA changes .

Check out itree.org to find out the benefit of each of the trees in our orchard or your home!

Read/Listen to this feature on Saint Louis Public Radio on the effects of environmental racism here.

Read about our collaboration with Forest Releaf Missouri.

Coahoma Orchards works to create food forests to combat the effects of climate change. Climate change impacts our life through cardiovascular and respiratory health. It also affects our access to food and nutrition. The air quality index of your area directly affects our communities and neighborhoods at a global level. Socio economic demographics effect the impact of climate change, and the lack of urban trees and forests. Our plant selection is strongly determined by the findings in our Beautiful Healthy Resilient Cultural Research Campaign.

Our Land Story

According to the site Native-Land.ca, run by Victor Temprano, Osage, Miami, Sioux and Haudenosauneega (also called Iroquois) groups once lived in the St. Louis region. The Osage, Miami and Sioux are federally-recognized tribes with members still alive today, while the Iroquois were a powerful confederacy of six indigenous nations centered around the Great Lakes, their influence spanning much of the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys.

Before those groups occupied the land, St. Louis was one site of Mississippian culture, a civilization that built complex earthworks across much of the continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains.

Half of our sites are in the Greater Ville Neighborhood in Saint Louis. The city of Saint Louis posts its history online and states:

The Ville traces its name back to when the area was called Elleardsville after a prominent resident of the area, Charles Elleard, who once owned the Ville land. St. Louis annexed this area in 1876. Originally home to German and Irish immigrants and a small proportion of African Americans, the Ville is most widely recognized for the strength of the African-American community that developed in the neighborhood by 1930.

BBC Arts Hour Tour: Saint Louis

Culture Cab Tour w/Dail Chambers in North Saint Louis

This Black Artist Is Using Farming to Heal Herself — and the Land

-Capital B News