Wild Ginger

I still don't know much about it.

But I found a place I can buy it.

Wild Ginger at Trees and Plants

But I don't think I will buy them as they don't recommend eating it.

Dwarfing Hackberries

Toby Hemenway wrote Gaia's Garden, a book on permaculture. In it, he suggests hackberry as a guild companion to black walnut.

Since I have a young black walnut, I thought I'd look up the hackberry. First I found that hackberries grow up to be huge trees up to 60' high, way to big for where I want to put it. Then I discovered the desert hackberry shrub. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any growing info or buying info on it.

My study continues.

But, in the meantime, I found information on how to dwarf hackberries, keeping them around 6'. This may be the answer to my problem and what I resort to.

Keeping Hackberry Trees Dwarfish

Here is a possible place to get hackberries

Cold Stream Farm

Bamboo, Bamboo, Bamboo

Here is a place to get Bamboo cold hardy to zone 5.

Bamboo Garden Nursery

Burnt Ridge has a few varieties as well.

Burnt Ridge Bamboo

Goumi Berry (and other) sources

Here are a few places.
Jung Nursery which has
Scarlet Goumi (4-6 foot tall, hardy to zone 4)  and Currents and Goose Berries and Hardy Kiwis

Sandusky Nursery has:
Goumi Shrub (10 foot tall, hardy to zone 4b)


Burnt Ridge Nursery has:
Goumi Berry and Silver Berry and Goose Berry and Current and Kiwi and Nut Trees

This list may increase as I find more sources

Hazelnuts

Hazelnut trees seems to be the place to start for someone wanting to grow nuts on their land. Nuts are a great way to have perennial staples growing along side your happy fruit trees since hazelnuts can be used for so many things.

How to Grow Hazelnuts (Backyard Gardening Blog)

Growing Hazelnuts in the Garden (Mother Earth News)

Growing Hazelnuts or Filberts (Food Skills)


A couple places to get Hazelnuts

Arbor Day's Hazelnut Research Project (It's a hazelnut hybrid)

Twisted Tree Farm (American Hazelnut) (can get other things, like Comfrey, there)

Fruit and Nut Trees

I found this nursery when I was researching hazel nuts and whether or not they will grow in my zone.

I found Stark Brother's Nurseries which is actually a little further north that I am. They have what I'm looking for.