Eastern Temperate Forests · Zones 7–9
Southeastern Piedmont & Coastal Plain
Pine and hardwood country from the Carolinas to Georgia and north Florida: long hot summers, short mild winters.
Longleaf and loblolly pine, oak-hickory uplands, blackwater rivers, swamps and barrier-island coast.
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Gardening
Two full seasons — a heat garden of okra, peppers, sweet potatoes and southern peas, and a winter garden of greens, roots and brassicas.
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Largemouth bass, crappie and bream in ponds and reservoirs; redfish, speckled trout and flounder on the coast; stripers in the big rivers.
About fishing guides →Foraging
Pecans, muscadines, persimmons, chanterelles in summer, blackberries and dewberries, pawpaws and elderberries.
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