Joseph Lofthouse

Summary

Joseph Lofthouse taught landrace gardening at conferences hosted by the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, National Heirloom Expo, Organic Seed Alliance, Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA-NY), and Utah Farm & Food Conference. He serves as World Tomato Society ambassador.

“Landrace Gardening is brilliant. It’s a love story! And 2 parts gardening handbook. There are so many revelations I don’t know where to begin? AMAZING. In every way this is a book for the ages. Bravo Joseph.” Dan Barber, Blue Hill At Stone Barns, and Row 7 Seed Company

“There is magic in the way Joseph Lofthouse marries his no-stress approach to gardening with such deep love and passion. This book is as much a gardening manual as it is a reframing of our relationship with each other and the world. Landrace Gardening gives us a roadmap to the kind of joyful food security that we need for healing many of the most important wounds of our time.” Jason Padvorac

“Joseph Lofthouse has a focus upon something that all gardeners should know: Landrace varieties are the way to sustainability. The best part is that everything in his book is adaptable for any gardener. No high level knowledge of botany or chemistry is required. The versatility and diversity of growing landrace plants speaks for themselves.” Jere Gettle— Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company.

“The western sustainable agriculture movement has long needed its own version of the 'One Straw Revolution'. Joseph Lofthouse provides just that. With revolutionary gusto based on heretical thought and age old human gnosis. In Landrace Gardening, Food Security... Lofthouse steps firmly into the role of Iconoclast and elder seed shaman.” Alan Bishop, Alchemist at Spirits Of French Lick

“Awesome to see this process beginning to work in just one year.” Josh Jamison, HEART Village

“Joseph's book is an eye-opener to a novice seed saver like myself. My growing conditions are not as extreme as Joseph's, but we do have a very short growing season. He has inspired me to start trying to produce my own landrace crops.” Megan Palmer

“Inspiring. Empowering. VERY important work.” Stephanie Genus

“Octavia E. Butler's Earthseed, John Twelve Hawks' Traveler Series, and Orson Scott-Card's Ender Quintet have delivered us to Joseph's fertile gateway. Not a gateway "drug", but yes a door of perception. In this book, Joseph removes from our lexicon Instant, Lite, Diet, Recommended Daily Allowance, Modern, Heirloom, Open Pollinated, Hybrid with just one shattering word: Promiscuous. Under the same condition he was once gifted a guitar, Joseph offers us Abundance for as long as we keep learning to play within it.” Heron Breen, Fedco Seeds

Where to get it?

Lulu.com . (Great workmanship)
Other retailers

Related Podcasts

Plant Breeding Part 1
Plant Breeding Part 2

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Meet the Author (video on amazon)





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Pictures of Joseph's garden!

Chapter 12 - Landrace Gardening
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Promiscous Tomato

 
Related Websites

World Tomato Society
About Joseph Lofthouse
Joseph's website

The German kindle edition is free to download until September 29th at midnight pacific time.

Germany:  https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0FPMPJZ5D
usa:            https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0FPMPJZ5D


I hope that by making it free for a few days, that you might download it, and/or make a review, and/or love it so much that you buy a paperback later on.

I haven't tasted any of these pits.

Edit to add: These all went to good homes. Thanks.

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I offer 50 seeds from my apricot breeding project. I share them freely, since I don’t sell my children. I ask $50 to honor my labor and cover postage. Available for shipping within the USA.

These seeds come from the two trees I treasure most. Both bear generously and stand strong through my winters. One produces golden fruit as sweet as sunlight, the other deep orange with that classic apricot tang. Both give large, satisfying fruits. Seeds collected and dried immediately from the fresh fruits.

The two trees grow side by side and likely pollinated each other. Some seeds may also carry pollen from a few of my other best performers. The weaker trees had already dropped out before these came into bloom.

Planting suggestions:

Fall: sow outdoors under two inches of weed-free mulch or compost. (Recommended)
Stratification: store in damp media in the fridge until roots appear, then plant.
Direct planting: works well with intact seeds; if cracking, use a c-clamp.
Protection: where rodents abound, guard seeds with netting or hardware cloth.

Contact me by Purple Moosage for payment and shipping details.

I hope these seeds bring you the same delight they bring me.

I grow rye as an annual grain. A 13 foot long row yields 5 pounds, (a week's worth of food), and I can harvest, thresh, and clean it in an hour.

It self-seeds rambunctiously, but dies easily when cultivated.

That type of mega-huge cataclysm seems too big to survive, therefore I don't prepare for it, and don't know of anyone that does. Same way that I don't prepare for a mega-astroid strike, or the sun going super-nova.

Tons of intentional communities prepare for normal disturbances like winter snow, civil-unrest, flood, hurricane, earthquake, drought, etc...

Choose one of the states with food freedom laws.

In Utah, we can sell food direct-to-consumer, without any licenses, inspections, or regulations. (Milk and some types of meat don't qualify.)

This week, German joined the family of translations of Landrace Gardening.

I sure feel grateful to the community and translators that made this possible.

The sugar in apples (and carrots) ferments to alcohol, which ferments via mother into vinegar.

Yes, the seeds fall right through my screen, but the screen holds the seeds in place, so that the shoe can abrade the hull.

I really like planting grains in rows, just wide enough apart that I can weed them easily with my wheel hoe. For self-seeding rye, I run a cultivator through the field to make rows 30" apart and about 4" wide.