Tristans Unkraut

After a day in Chicago we headed out to Red Fern Farm in Iowa just west of the Mississippi on July 16th. I stayed for three days and never learned so much in such a short time. Tom and Kathy Wahl have been planting Chestnut trees there about 30 years…

At the 14th of July we made a short 3 hour stop at Salamander Springs Farm on our way to Chicago. Susana Lein is living there off-grid and grows mainly beans and corn as staple crops. She used to grow all kinds of vegetables and sell them but as she has…

The following plants are ones I discovered growing here at Mountain Gardens in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina at 1.000 m height in USDA hardiness zone 6b. Many of these plants are said in the literature to not be hardy enough or are…