Paw paws date back in the Midwest, Southeast and East millions of years. Indigenous peoples across the Mississippi Valley and Southeast cultivated, foraged and traded them for millennia, leaving traces…
Asian pears originated in China and Japan and have been grown in these and other Asian nations for over 3000 years. Asian pears first came to the to the west…
Now days, cold cantaloupe from the refrigerator counts as a southern survivor tool. Having originated in Asia, cantaloupes are named for the Italian city of Cantalupo, a former papal estate…