For the last couple of years I have been sending free samples of seeds of Iowa peach seeds out to everyone that has ordered from me. Who doesn’t love a surprise seed? I was fortunate to receive these seeds from known provenances isolated from other peaches in Iowa. Many of these go back to the …
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January 21, 2025
A few years ago one of my neighbors near my farm was arriving home late and decided to turn on the news before bed. Lo and behold, here was her mailbox featured front and center on News 8. Here was a newscaster talking about an event in front of her home just prior to her …
Continue reading “Questions on Quince: Quizzical Quandary of Fruit Proportions”…
January 20, 2025
Every now and then you find a unique wild food that from all practical appearances and applications is not going to ring anyone’s plant bells or create a new food of great magnitude. The hog peanut is a shade loving trifoliate, nitrogen fixing plant hunkered down under the oak trees here at my farm. …
January 7, 2025
It is not a common fruit within the United States. There are several grafted trees of it offered by nurseries. At one time I decided to plant as many as I could find. I grew eight varieties of the medlar which was all I could find. The trees were usually on hawthorn rootstock. Even if …
January 4, 2025
Every year brings in new plants and animals at my farm. Here are a few of them captured in a moment of time most of it from 2024. That is wild.
December 16, 2024
One of the great mysteries of growing annual fruiting or vegetable plants is why there are so few self seeders in the lot. Finding species that self seed without having to be replanted every year is not a common experience with most species of cultivated food plants. There are few types of what would be …
December 16, 2024
Cloud Lima represents four distinct lines of perennial and annual lima beans. This collection combines the thicket bean-Phaseolus polystachios, and three types of hybrid crosses using the true lima bean, Phaseolus lunatus. This was a process taking upwards of two decades of growing the thicket bean and eventually creating a hybrid cross using the pollinators …
December 16, 2024
Neosinte is my first generations of developing and using teosinte as a grain crop. Similar to corn teosinte combines the drought tolerance of a wild grass with the corn we know today using a heirloom blue corn and the Mexican Highland teosinte. Neosinte was born from this cross done at my farm with help of …
August 7, 2024
A huge array of seeds are planned for this fall along with several new releases of species never offered before. The seeds will be available as usual on line only and at this website. American persimmon will be collected and processed and in bulk this year along with different species of pears and chestnuts. The …
April 28, 2024
Every plant has its limitations. As gardeners we soon discover how that translates in our own experience with certain plants and how something will grow or not grow in our own landscapes. Here are a few of my personal discoveries of which each is related in some way. Each species has a place on my …
Continue reading “Bird Cherry Meets Dingle Dangle Meets Wild Magnolia”…