Thank you. We all have problem shady area, different growing conditions, severe winters, etc. but some good suggestions. Shaded areas also are good for "hidden gardens", although the animals and pests find them. If TSHTF, some of my hidden gardens would probably furnish all the deer, racoon, woodchuck, etc, that I could trap and eat. Protein with the veggies. Find that most people can walk thru the hidden garden and not even notice it as well as the "wild garden" of cat tails, sun chokes, wild onions, fiddle head ferns, some of the grains, some of the edible weeds. Hard to tell what happens to spring up in the wild areas of the flood control areas. Elder berries,some nuts, etc. Non of them are non native and are not pests plants and over time other people have learned how to forage them. The food forest is not a new idea, people have been doing it for thousands of years and used to get most of their medicines the same way.
