Landrace Gardening with Joseph Lofthouse!

12/03/24 • 57 min

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What is a land race? How is promiscuous pollination different from open pollinated? How do you maintain diversity over multiple seasons? Can a land race be scaled down successfully to flourish in a home garden? Does Joseph Lofthouse sing beautifully? All this and so much more in this episode of Song and Plants!

Opening tune: Solanaceae by Carmen Porter (https://carmenporter.com)

Awesome links:

https://goingtoseed.org/

https://lofthouse.com/

Opening tune: Solanaceae by Carmen Porter (https://carmenporter.com)

Awesome links:

https://goingtoseed.org/

https://lofthouse.com/

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Opening tune: Solanaceae by Carmen Porter (https://carmenporter.com)

Shaun (ChilliChump) connections:

main page: https://chillichump.com/

seed shop: https://chillichumpseeds.com/

awesome software: https://seedsio.com/

videos: https://www.youtube.com/chillichump

Song and Plants - Landrace Gardening with Joseph Lofthouse!

Transcript

Carmen00:00:24.999

Welcome to Song and Plants. My name is Carmen Porter. In this episode, I was joined by Joseph Lofthouse to explore landrace gardening. I decided to include this interview in the Solanaceae series because it seems that the majority of cultivar development of this family of food crops is heavily dominated by institutions and their emerging technologies. Joseph's book, Land Race Gardening, Food Security Through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination,