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Joseph Lofthouse -- Food Shaman

Joseph Lofthouse
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 currently strange economic conditions, I am not selling seeds. Some varieties of my seeds can be obtained from:

Going To Seed

Experimental Farm Network

Giving Ground Seeds

The Buffalo Seed Company

Snake River Seed Cooperative

Wild Mountain Seeds

Seed Savers Exchange

Resilient Seeds

Baker Creek Seeds

Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds

Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds

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Global Seed Directory

After I published Landrace Gardening, requests poured in for varieties mentioned in the book. It takes me at least an hour per request to handle the correspondence, find the seed, package it, and get it to the post office. If you ask me directly for seed, or information about varieties, please consider making a donation large enough to cover an hour or two of a celebrity's time. 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
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 history -- 25+ 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

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