The value of plants and their potential uses are infinite. The direction you take might be a good idea even if not useful to modern day agribusiness.

Shipping Plants During the Summer

The Secret of the Thimbleberry. A raspberry that produces a rich, vibrant red fruit is well known in northern Michigan.

Wild strawberries are one of those fruits that seem just too tiny to collect. Once tasted it is impossible not to harvest.

Pawpaws are easy to grow but what happens in the course of thirty years could create a challenge. What is going on in that pawpaw grove?

Beach plums can grow inland throughout most of North America and thrive under drought conditions and survive late frosts.

Growing beach plums is surprisingly an easy crop to grow even without a beach. It all started with a few plants from New Jersey.

Maypop, Wild Bean and Shiawassee Sunchoke are featured in this newsletter.

This newsletter highlights oaks and the nut crops they produce along with those who helped us on our way to our oak plantings.

Collecting acorns and growing a wide variety of oaks has been a mission of mine since the beginning of Oikos Tree Crops. Here are a few discoveries surrounding the Quercus genus.