Zach Elfers runs a small nursery Future Forest Plants which specializes in native tree crops like hickories, persimmon, walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, plums, pawpaw, and more. He also grows a variety of native plants and edibles/medicinals in particular. My ecological understanding is informed by years of study and travel, and supplemented by research, reading, and writing, some of which is shared at the Nomad Seed Project blog. His main interest is cultural landscapes and the ways in which indigenous humans and bioregional ecologies may partner together in mutually supportive symbioses. Within the context of agroforestry, he comes to understand swiddening systems through experiment. In addition to growing plants and trees, he practices fire management and general landscape-level tending of ecosystems. He lives on a 10-acre homestead in southern Pennsylvania along the Susquehanna River, the ancestral mixing pot land of Susquehannock, Shawnee, Lenape, Conestoga, Haudenosaunee, and other peoples like the Tutelo/Saponi. Follow Zach at nomadseed.com and on Instagram as @woodlandrambler.