Seeds have a memory.
If you buy from a catalog you will get chestnuts grown in the Northeast or Southeast that won’t survive Midwest winters and summers.
So I grow chestnuts from seed that “remember” the Midwest summers and winters, not some place else.
Buy Midwest Memory chestnut trees at Grow Nut Trees, adapted to the Midwest zones 5 – 7. Also hazelnut, elderberry, and comfrey.
Raised beds that I am building to test Perennial Kitchen Garden layouts:
Rent a Coop Electric Poultry Netting
RentACoop Non-Electric Black Boundary Fence 48″ x100′ – Suitable for Chickens or Other Animals
Raised beds that I am building to test Perennial Kitchen Garden layouts:
Vego Garden Modular Metal Raised Bed (which I will make 5′ x 3.5′, 17″ tall).
I use this for a perennial kitchen garden – growing herbs to use daily in the kitchen. Just come along and pick what you need for tonight’s dinner.
Meadow Creature Broadfork is my favorite tool for starting new garden beds. I turn over the sod, add a layer of compost, then Milpa, and cover with woodchips.
Permies digital marketplace is YOUR source for all things permaculture for your homestead, side hustle, and designing your intentional life:
from video courses, to blueprints, to books.
Joseph Lofthouse is the author of Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination.
Affiliates (folks that we have partnered with to bring you special items and discounts):
Check out the Solar Food Dehydrator from Permies. Watch the movie, get the plans, all for reasonable cost.
Recommendations and Resources:
All of these things we have used and recommend.
(Note that these links may be affiliate links).
Live Not By Lies – by Rod Dreher.
This book rocked my world in 2020 and 2021, especially Section 2 where the Eastern European Christians who did not go along with the Bolsheviks were pushed to9 the margins of society, and Section 3 about how Christians survived the gulag.
Surviving the Future by David Fleming and Shaun Chamberlin.
The title of this book inspired Thriving the Future Podcast.
Surviving the Future is a more digestible version of Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It, a thick book which deep dives culture, community, debt, growth, de-growth, and assumes our problems can be handled in a Lean manner, all local. Highly recommended, if you are into localism, community, and remarkable Hope, despite an uncertain future.
Cotton Crochet Market Bags – Washable Crochet Grocery Bags – Reusable Crochet Produce Shopping Bags
I use these for storing veggies in the basement, hanging from nails on the rafters.
Wildcrafting Soda and Brews:
The Wildcrafting Brewer: Creating Unique Drinks and Boozy Concoctions from Nature’s Ingredients:
How to Make Vinegar:
Note: I am a participant in the Amazon Associates Program. I make affiliate income based on your purchase(s), but you don’t pay extra.