American Garden
A country of backyard plots and seed banks. Brandywine and Cherokee Purple staked six feet high on Iowa rows, the Three Sisters planted in a Haudenosaunee field since the fifteenth century, mason bee tubes hung in a Vermont orchard, sourwood honey at the Foxfire Center, Seed Savers Exchange founded at Decorah in 1975, hardneck garlic mulched in a Maine bed, blueberries fenced along a Michigan line, sunchokes spreading where the kitchen forgets — a garden built on saved seed, native bees, and the slow contract of the perennial bed.