Herbaceous: 

● Hosta 

● Solomon Seal 

● Ostrich Fern 

● Fuki 

● Sweet Cicely 

● Wild Ginger 

● Violets 

● Daylily 

● Mayapple (fruit) 

Woody: (4+ hours of sun for decent fruiting) 

● Gooseberry 

● Currant 

● Jostaberry 

● Spicebush 

● Goumi 

● Pawpaw 

Mushrooms! (Supplies from Field and Forest) 

● Winecap mushrooms (grown on woodchips)

● Shiitake (grown on logs) 

Herbs: 

● Mint Family (mint, bee balm, lemon balm, anise hyssop)

● Allium Family (chives, garlic chives, ramps)

Trees:

●  Pawpaw- largest native fruit banana/mango flavor, tons of great grafted cultivars

●  American Persimmon- grafted varieties like Early golden, Prok and Yates

●  Hybrid Persimmon- shorter than the american. Nakita’s Gift & Rosseyanka for hybrids

●  Jujube- easy to care for fruit tree tastes like freeze dried apples, need’s staking to keep upright

●  Asian Pear- fire blight resistant varieties like shinko and korean giant

●  Pear- fire blight resistant varieties like magness, maxine, potomac and blake’s pride

●  Apples- look for disease resistance like Liberty, William’s Pride and Arkansas Black

●  Mulberry- tons of easy to grow varieties, put down a tarp and shake trees for easy harvest

●  Tart Cherry- Northstar is natural dwarf, most are easy to grow

●  Serviceberry- prune to keep branches within reach. Try Autumn Brilliance

●  Che- get a seedless female variety. Fruit drops in early years

Shrubs:

●  Elderberry- get cultivars that make big flowers and fruit

●  Nanking Cherry- easy to grow tart cherries

●  Aronia- highest antioxidant fruit native to north america

●  Gerardi Dwarf Mulberry- sweet and reachable mulberries on a 6’ tall shrub

●  Fig- chicago hardy is most proven. needs winter protection for good fruit production

●  Trifoliate Orange Flying Dragon- the only hardy citrus! gorgeous, slow growing, seedy, thorny

●  Beach Plum- Oikos Nursery and Raintree Nursery have cultivars. Gorgeous spring blooms

●  Currants- look for disease resistance. Best kept in backyard. Tolerates some shade

●  Gooseberry- thorny but easy to grow. Tolerates some shade

●  Goumi- easy to grow, early to fruit and a nitrogen fixer. Makes small tart berries

●  Regent Serviceberry- a compact bush serviceberry, similar in size to blueberry

Herbaceous:

●  Alliums: welch nion, egyptian walking onion, chives, garlic chives

●  Greens: scorzonera, dandelion, violets, daylily, sorrel, hablitzia, prickly pear, patience doc, alfalfa,

myoga ginger, horseradish,

●  Shoots: asparagus, hosta, giant solomon Seal, sea kale, turkish rocket, rhubarb

●  Herbs: mint, anise hyssop, lemon balm, bronze fennel, thyme, oregano, yarrow, bee balm, lovage,

mitsuba, comfrey, go crazy with annual herbs Vines:

●  Grapes- check out disease resistant Munson varieties like Carman, Elvikand, Lukfata and Champanel

●  Hardy Kiwi- vigorous vines. The ​Kolomikta​ kiwis are less vigorous. Needs male + female

●  Maypop/Passion Fruit- This native herbaceous vine makes stunning medicinal flowers, edible

leaves and edible fruit. ​Spreads aggressively where planted so make sure you can mow around

it or plant in a pot

Groundcovers:

●  Strawberries- In a league of their own as a groundcover. Earliglow, Allstar, Jewel

●  Alpine Strawberries- the most delicious fruit on the planet. Non-spreading

●  Thyme, Roman Chamomile, Nasturtium, Sweet potato