A Southeast Minnesota-Based Source for Edible Landscaping, Food Forest, and Permaculture Plants and Shrubs.
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April 10th Update: Many plants are beginning to break bud right now and with a nice warm-up in the forecast, 2025 plant sales will begin very soon! Check back here for updates.
Hardy perennial plants, shrubs, and bushes on this site offer: --FOOD SECURITY in these highly uncertain times. Enhance your self-sufficiency by simply putting any of these plants in the ground once and enjoying the food from them each year for several years and, in many cases, decades to come. --EDIBLE LANDSCAPING: If you're going to landscape your property with plants, shrubs, and trees, why not use those that will provide you and your family with healthy food? --Grow your very own FOOD FOREST! If you're not familiar with the food forest concept, there are many useful video resources on YouTube that can be found simply using the search term "food forest". Are you big on ambition, but short on space? A highly recommended YouTube channel is "The Gardening Channel with James Prigioni". On his channel, James produces excellent content and demonstrates how an abundance of food can be grown on just a one-ninth acre suburban backyard on his one-third acre property using food forest principles. Products found at The Berry Booth represent the understory, the shrub layer, the herbaceous layer, the root layer, the ground cover layer, and the vine layer; all the layers of a healthy food forest, except the overstory layer. --Most importantly, have more control over where your food comes from and ensure it's grown using healthy practices, all while loosening Big Ag's grip on your food supply.
Cold-hardy to USDA zone 4b, these are climbing vines that produce grape-sized berries with a sweet, tart, and tropical flavor. This is a male variety of hardy kiwi. When growing hardy kiwi, it is important to have at least one male plant to 6 female plants. See the female variety, Anna, that can be found on this site. These vigorous growers require a sturdy trellis and full sun to help them thrive.