We had a very fruitful visit to Ohio, both literally and figuratively.  I had my eyes peeled for useful seeds and was thrilled to stumble upon a patch of honey locust and osage-orange growing together in a floodplain.  It was easy to gather up two big bags of osage-orange fruits to turn into a hedge, but I had to do some serious foraging to find un-gnawed honey locust pods.  I take this as a very good sign --- if the wild animals are so fond of honey locust seeds, hopefully our idea of feeding honey locusts to pigs will pan out.

The persimmon seeds were even easier to find.  A medium-sized tree near Mark's mom's house is always loaded when we go up for our winter visit, and this time was no exception.  I also pruned her grapes and came away with a big handful of cuttings to turn into new grapevines, assuming the scion wood lasts the winter in the root cellar. 

And, of course, the human part of the visit was great too.