Zone 23 is an intensive food/soil/ habitat production project, grounded in the food forest model. This small-scale experiment is in its sixth year. The half-acre, formally commercially farmed land supports trees, shrubs and herbaceous perennial crops that are edibles, medicinals and soil builders. A diverse variety of beans, corn and squash are grown annually for both food and seed.

Zone 23 perennial and woody plants:

Apples: Haralson, Jonathan, Red Delicious, State Fair, Stayman Winesap, Wealthy

Apricots: Garden Annie

Asian Pear: Nijiseki, Yalli, Yonaishi

Blueberries: Blue Crop, Blue Jay, North Blue, North Country, Northland, St. Cloud

Cherries: Attiika, Black Tartarian, Meteor, Stella

Peaches: unknown Haven variety

Plums: American, Burbank, Ussuri

Other Fruits: Aronia Melanocarpa, Blackberry, Cornus mas, Currants, Gooseberries, Honeyberries ‘Blue Velvet’ +’Blue Pacific’, Huckleberry, Jujube, Mountain Huckleberry, Northern Prairie Manchurian Apricot, Pawpaw, Persimmon, Prinsipia, Purple flowering Raspberry, Raspberry – red, black and golden, Red Autumn Berry, Sambucus nigra, Shipova, Strawberries

Herbs: Alfalfa, Arnica, Blue Vervain, Comfrey, Echinacea, Elecampane, Lindera benzoin, Sassafras, Spikenard

Nuts: American Hazelnut and ‘Precocious’, Black Walnut, Buartnut, Chiquapin Hybrid Chestnut, Hican - ‘Lecon’

Perennial Veggies: Chinese Mountain Yam, Groundnut, Horseradish, Jerusalem artichoke, Jinejo, Indian Rice Grass, Rhubarb