Nathan's hand steadying the farm's first eggplant on the vine
Nathan Story — founder

Missouri grower · Mizzou CAFNR alumnus · husband & father of two

The Farm · Warren County, Missouri

Meet the grower.

Built in the garden, not the boardroom.

Nathan is a husband, father of two, and grower in Warren County, Missouri.

He holds a B.S. in Agricultural Systems Technology from the University of Missouri’s College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources.

He manages a chicken food forest of 30+ cultivars — the same trees, herbs and flock in the photographs on this page.

The plant library began as his own plant database — built for the farm, then opened to everyone who loves this stuff.

A real Missouri farmChartered LLC, real rows, real mud.
30+ cultivars, one flockA chicken food forest, layer by layer.
Mizzou CAFNR alumnusB.S., Agricultural Systems Technology.
A database turned publicThe plant library started as the farm's own records.
Young fruit trees in mulched rows through the food forest
The food forest
A flowering rhubarb crown growing beneath a multi-grafted cocktail fruit tree
Rhubarb under the cocktail tree
A young peach tree underplanted with a guild of companions
The peach guild
Grapevines trained along the arbor wire
The grape arbor
Green figs ripening on the branch
Figs, zone 6
The laying flock inside the covered run
The flock
A row of maturing fruit trees along the orchard
Down the orchard row
A cluster of Egyptian walking onion bulbils
Walking-onion bulbils
Pink yarrow flowering in the herb layer
Yarrow in the herb layer

I built the plant library so I could spend less time trying to remember everything — and more time actually enjoying the garden.

— Nathan Story

Read the farm journal →What is coming in, what was lost, and what is being built.

To reach the farm — orders, questions about a plant, or anything about a print — write to storythymefarms@gmail.com. We answer within a day or two.

Grown outside — at home on your wall.

Browse the printsExplore the plant library