High School Football America - Paw Paw, MI

This is the first in a series of small town high school football video vignettes from High School Football America. In this episode Trish Hoffman and High School Football America editor-in-chief Jeff Fisher travel to Paw Paw, Michigan in search of the elusive pawpaw tree and high school football in this tiny village in southwest Michigan. For more small town high school football stories, please visit www.highschoolfootballamerica.com.

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Sports

Tags:

• high school football
• football
• high school
• Paw Paw
• Michigan
• small town football
• High School Football America
• Paw Paw High School
• Paw Paw Redskins

[1942ems]

The manager should have referred the reporter to the former elementary/high school building on East Michigan Ave. When I was in second grade, we picked Paw Paws from a tree right outside of our classroom window. The fruit is small, banana-shaped and very tart as reported.

We also tapped the maple trees nearby and made maple syrup. What fun and memories. Thanks

[hsfbamerica]

Thanks for the information. It was a great trip with great people! Thanks for watching!!

[Karategirl402]

a few of my good friends live in paw paw i wish i lived there too

[kerrinlamb]

Loved seeing my dad on this! Good job Butch!

[pawtwice]

Actually most of the Paw Paw trees in Paw Paw today are ones I purchased from a nursery in Tennessee, so southern Asmina Triloba prosper in the north also, in fact they are almost impossible to kill........rh

[ohiosucks1968]

How cool to see our little town on you tube! My father Butch Hindenach owned Tuttle Floral Company in Paw Paw Michigan and would be the one to ask about the Paw Paw fruit! Thank you for sharing!

[jaker2880]

they like fertile soil, loam,or sandy loam

naturally found along river banks as an understory tree.Very tolerant of shade but will produce more fruit if grown in full sun.

[jaker2880]

thats about the northernmost range of the pawpaw tree in the world. Paw paws from the northern edge of their range in Michigan are genetically predisposed to be cold hardy and will survive in cold areas of the North where Paw paws are not native. If you live in a northern state and want to grow pawpaws, get seeds from that area in Michigan.