What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined

again by Nancy Hayden. She's the co-owner of the Farm Between up in

Vermont and she's a co-author of the book that's out now called Farming on the Wild Side.

We've been talking a lot about that Wild Side philosophy, what it means, things like native plants, things

like living soil, and of course yesterday's episode about growing your own

fruit. And I sort of offered a challenge to all of you listening to at least pick one new type of

fruit to put in your garden this year, this coming year, 2020.

So the question then becomes, well, what should I choose?

And there's certainly many, many options and many depend on where you actually live in the world.

What is your growing zone?

But Nancy grows a lot of unusual fruits, specifically unusual berries.

So Nancy, I thought as a Berry lover myself maybe could we get just a quick rundown of some of the the weirder ones that you're growing?

Well I mentioned early on we grow a lot of black currents. Those are originally from

Europe that they brought the colonists brought over and stuff like that and those are

Wonderful for making wine our winery down the road uses ours mostly but we've also sold those to breweries now. They like them. They're very tannic. So breweries and

citaries like those tannons and the fruit. Elderberries are becoming very popular these days because of their medicinal qualities.

They've actually done some clinical trials and shown that it can reduce the length of colds and flu and things like that because of

their antiviral properties.

So around Vermont a lot of people are making their own syrups at home and we also make one called

Eldaberry ginger and we use honey our own honey in it too. So that the ginger is

antimicrobial and the the elderberry is antiviral and it's amazing. You can make tea with it or a soda, spritzer, or whatever and it's really, really healthy and

it is a healthy product.

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