Milky Oats

Annual. Avena sativa
75 seeds per packet.

Medicine and food, can be grown for either. Stress reducing and helps support the nervous system. Typically we harvest for medicine and then save the rest for seed. Easy as grass to grow (it is a grass) and the young seed heads are harvested for medicine when they are at their "milky" phase. This means you squeeze the young seedpods and notice when they are leaking a white "milk" which occurs sometime after formation and before they turn brown. Check regularly so you don't miss this window, and then when they are ready, harvest the seedheads, blend them, and add to alcohol to make a tincture. Save the oatstraw for use in herbal teas or as a garden mulch :) very awesome multipurpose plant!

H. Zell, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons