Homesteading: Gifts from West Virginia

Apios americana- an American jewel

This week, Jill and I received a gift via the postal service from a Substack subscriber named Paul in West Virginia.

In the box were several vegetable starts and tubers. There were two types of tubers, both indigenous to the Americas: Apios americana and the Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus), also called sunroot, sunchoke, wild sunflower, topina…