garden.lofthouse.comJoseph Lofthouse, Self-provisioning food advocate.

[ Home | Status/Forum | Seed List ] Joseph LofthouseFood Shaman Honoring the ancestors: Illiterate plant breeders that created every variety that I grow. Background Reading I gained a bit of notoriety some years ago when Mother Earth News asked me to write a series of articles about landrace gardening . When visiting the page, I recommend sorting by oldest and read the first few articles first to get a better understanding of why I grow the way that I do. Plant Breeding Rather than depend on far-away distant mega-companies for seeds, I am working as a traditional farmer. I am breeding genetically diverse landraces of your favorite crops. This allows me to develop farm-specific varieties in which the genetics of the crop interact with our climate and soil to provide optimum taste and reliability. Due to the strange economic conditions this year I am not selling seeds. Some varieties of my seeds can be obtained from: Experimental Farm Network Baker Creek Seeds Snake River Seed Cooperative Resilient Seeds Giving Ground Seeds Miss Penn’s Mountain Seeds Wild Mountain Seeds Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds If I missed anyone please let me know, and I’ll add you to this list. For other varieties , I may be willing to gift non-tested seeds if you’ll cover postage which is about $5 per shipment. I welcome donations to help with my work of developing new genetically-diverse landrace varieties, and feeding my community. Please communicate with me before requesting seeds. These are being selectively adapted to the growing conditions found in Cache Valley and the Great Basin of Utah. Due to my breeding projects I am able to grow crops that would not otherwise produce a harvest in Cache Valley. The quick maturing varieties have proved useful in high-altitude gardens with short-seasons, and in hot climates where a crop needs to mature quickly before the worst of the summer heat cooks the garden. Astronomy Domine Sweet Corn "Keep up the good work, this is the best stuff we’ve had around here in years." (Satisfied Customer, 2009) "This was the worst year in my lifetime for growing tomatoes in PA. It was the wettest year in recorded history25+ inches above normal rainfall. Blight and more blight. I do not spray for this and grow organic. Everything died except S peruvianum, S habrochaites, and the interspecies crosses. I am returning these offspring...." (Satisfied Customer, 2018) Warm Regards, Joseph ꔩꙓꗼꔵꔒꔷꚀⳡ Blog: Mother Earth NewsLandrace Gardening . If sending eMail I’d really like it if you used encryption. Here is my public key . I have found GnuPG easy to use. Photos/Writing by Joseph Lofthouse by Joseph Lofthouse are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License . Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://Garden.Lofthouse.com/cc.phtml . Food Freedom In May 2018, Utah’s Food Freedom law went into effect. It basically says that people can make/sell food to each other for home use, as long as the buyer is told that it wasn’t inspected by the government, and that the seller discloses if their kitchen handles common allergens. Home produced rabbit and chicken meat were included, but not pork, or beef. Raw milk has wierd rules. What this means in practical terms, is that it is now legal for us to make food at home and sell it to each other without government interference. Here’s what a sample lable looks like. Everything above my name is not...