Meet Your Wild Crops Producers -  The Native Plant Farmers Network of the Ozark

George Frazier - harvesting wild organic yarrow, May 2006George Frazier -  harvester, distiller and geodesic designer 

George has taught distillation at many events, including  hosted by The Missouri Organic Conference, The Ozark Folk Center . He is a skilled designer who has brought many low cost inventions to the farm, including The American Pine Nut Sheller, The RDU, The Crockpot still , and  portable shelter, the core a dome.  George has an eye for details of botany and a keen interest in the Trees of Missouri.  Most of the photographs on our web sites and blogs are George's.  Both Penny and George spend their spare time documenting the location of native species in the Ozarks and their life cycles.  You can find George twitter, facebook or email him here.  Everyone here, believes in demystifing the process of  distillation and is supportive those wishing to distill. Use it or lose it - the family farm works to demonstrate that wild systems can support income needs.

Zeb has been harvesting with us since he started walking              Zeb Frazier - Harvesting for 16 years.                                                   

 Zeb's mom had him wild harvesting berries in Alaska before he could walk.  At age, 17, an active FFA chapter member, Zeb is currently employed by the Missouri State Parks. He is a senior in high school and very much an outdoorsmen.  Zeb is a critical part of the harvest team  and well versed in Missouri Native Flora.

 Penny Frazier aka - Pinon Penny  

Penny is a powerhouse of passion for wilderness and as former electronic researcher for a Las Vegas Law firm, manages the farm's web sites. She is the visionary who has seen the connection between plants and people, together with environmental protection and human income needs.  She is an advocate for each and every plant species used on the farm and best known for her work with American Pine Nuts.  Penny has been instrumental in working with the USDA organic wild crop certifications and guidelines.   
Harvestin Mondarda Fistulosa June 2006Russ Adkinson - Passion Flower Grower and Wild Crops Farmer

Russ is a fantatic harvester and a great outdoorsman.  Russ became part of the native plant network, with the first SARE Greant project and has continued to produce everything from New Jersey Tea,  Mondarda, Elderflower as well as a steady, ever growing supply of Passion Flower.  Russ also harvests from his father's farm in Huston Missouri bringing us hickory nuts and other native plant products.

 

Adam and Andy Weiss - Steelville Missouri

 

Adam began restoration work with native Missouri species as he entered his teenage years.  He is a restoration ecologist and has amazing abilities in the field.  Andy runs a native nursery on the Steelville farm and together the Weiss have 70 acres dedicated to wild crops.  Adam has extensively restored native Ozark species, including mondarda fistulosa.  Adam has been instrumental in developing sustainability plans for wild crops certification and adaptive management of wild harvests.  You can find Adam on facebook.

 

The Gilmore Family Farm

If it were not for the D. J., we would not have had half the wild plum flower harvest in 2011.  D.J. has grown up before our very eyes and he became crew chief, finding harvest locations, recruiting pickers, and brought it home!  Jake Gilmore and his wife, Melissa - together with son, have also been there harvesting with us.

 

 

 We teach wild harvest, together with native plant propogation and distillation.   Please read about the benefits of wild harvesting - to learn more about A Wild Crops Farm.

   You can reach us at wild@wildcrops.com

 

Goods From The Woods - A wild crops farm web - www.pinenut.com, www.ozarkdomes.com www.buypinonnuts.com www.organicwitchhazel.com, www.pinenut.org and for your mobile www.pinonnuts.mobi phone 573.729.6725 (however, we are often out in the woods)