'Holly City' Wild Strawberry

Fragaria virginiana Origin: Millville, New Jersey Improvement status: Wild Seeds per packet: ~20 BOTANICAL SAMPLE - NOT GERMINATION TESTED Life cycle: Perennial EFN INTRODUCTION. We're beyond excited to be finally offering seeds of the extraordinary 'Holly City' wild strawberry! Wild strawberries may be small and a bit fiddly, but they are the best-tasting strawberries in the world — and this particular variety happens to be one of the best: delicious, resilient, and sometimes even yielding pretty large fruit for the species (see photos). These seeds come from a patch established by EFN co-founder Nate Kleinman at the EFN flagship farm outside Elmer, New Jersey. Early in our tenure in South Jersey, probably in 2016 or so, Nate found some wild strawberry plants growing in Millville, New Jersey, near the Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center (which celebrates the region's history as a center of glass production). The strawberries were growing in extremely sandy soil, which is typical of th