Julia Dakin

Besides the courses, there are now free seeds and an online community that's  'Landracing Everything'!

Seeds here: https://goingtoseed.org/collections/seeds

Community here: https://landracegardening.discourse.group/

Hi Friends,
After releasing an online course about Landrace Gardening last year, the very motivated community organized a cool project you might not have heard about... and seeds are still available for growers to plant this year. You can choose to just plant them and keep the seeds, or join the community of contributors building and expanding the project to include additional species and mixes.

Seeds are free (you just pay the cost of shipping). They were contributed by gardeners around the US, so every seed in the packet will be different, but all selected for being tasty, vigorous and early. We're really excited about this project and hope you'll join. You can also get the online courses free, as well as join our Landrace Gardening community.

Giant thank you and credit to Joseph Lofthouse for having the vision and building the community over the years!  

Everything available from here: GoingToSeed.org.

If you're interested in a deep dive into adapting to local conditions and your own preferences, we've made the Landrace Gardening online course free.  Mostly taught by Joseph Lofthouse, with some guest speakers. Including a chapter on increasing nutrient density.

If you've read Landrace Gardening, this is a good companion course with somewhat different content, and lots of videos of Joseph in his garden.

https://goingtoseed.org/products/1406309

There is also a course taught by Dr James White on how to use microbes to adapt to local conditions. Great for seed savers.  

I live on the Mendocino coast of California, and there is a 'wild' brassica  that grows here, I've heard it called Sea Kale. It looks like what you're describing.

Here is somebody description of it
https://goldengategarden.typepad.com/golden_gate_gardener_/2014/07/mendocino-coastal-walk.html

And another photo I've taken of it with the seeds (and plants in the background) https://photos.app.goo.gl/pTta8wp3wbky867N6. I eat it, but it's a little tough and spicy.

Happy to collect seeds for you. Climate here is cool, rainy winter, very dry summers. This plant grows in the dry sand and salty beach area

This is really cool. I did something similar last summer, using sea water and urine.  It was a pump type system (not a hydro person lol), and I turned on the little pump about once a day. I had to frequently reduce the PH with ACV.  I used sea water because of the book, I think it's called Sea Water fertility, he used some syntheitc nutrogen so I replaced that with urine. The cool thing was that the tomatoes were really really good! The most intensely flavored tomatoes that I've had. Husband said best ever. And the heirloom tomatoes held out from blight longer than my others.   I  also grew peruvianum tomatoes in it and they tested like melons.

You didn't have a problem with the PH getting too high in the kratkey method? Any thing i did with urine it started nuetral and quickly changed and the plants preferred fresh.

Emily Spring wrote:If you still need someone, let me know! I majored in English and my day job is creating online education.

Sorry I missed this earlier,  but yes always need more! Can you email me julia.dakin@gmail.com

More fun, less work, more delicious!

Joseph Lofthouse and I collaborated over the last year on building an online course to teach Landrace Gardening. It is geared towards people like you who want to enjoy tastier garden produce, with less work, don't want to keep buying things, become seed independent,  and and and...

It's designed to get you started right now, give you knowledge and confidence, and then support throughout the year with monthly zoom calls and a community.
Lots of videos of Joseph in his garden, in my garden, plant footage, all the nitty gritty of various crops.  Still evolving with new footage.

We also have  interviews with other landrace gardeners and their experiences.  Lots of community landrace discussion, support and seed trading evolving.

Here is a little intro video.
https://youtu.be/LXoBj9dr0Vo

ModernLandraces.com

(there is still a free option if you click on the course page and fill out the scholarship form at the bottom).
And there's a free shorter version if you're not ready to commit.

I made a video when Joseph Lofthouse visited my potato patch..  You guys will enjoy it. I got surprisingly big harvests (up to 10 lbs per plant) and big ol' tubers.
Check it out here (less than 5 minutes, lots of potato pics).
It's part of an online course we made, Growing Modern Landraces, modernlandraces.com
I think I just convinced my potato partner to go full hog on growing from seed, for market.

Ryan Hobbs wrote:

Julia Dakin wrote:You might try growing potatoes from true potato seed. Much more blight resistant, and I got better yields from seed than I did from tuber.  But I know that is not normal. Still worth a try.
Here is a video of Joseph Lofthouse in my potato patch
https://vimeo.com/655068113

Sure, email me julia.dakin@gmail.com with you address