Landrace Gardening
Discover how to use promiscuous pollination and local adaptation to bring more joy, diversity, and abundance to your garden
Includes access to the Landrace Gardening with Joseph Lofthouse, Microbes and Endophytes with Dr James White, additional courses and content through the year, communities and seed swapping, and monthly group zoom calls with Joseph Lofthouse.
Not quite ready to commit to becoming a Landrace Gardener? This course will give you plenty of information so you can be sure if it's right for you.
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Growing Your Own Landrace
Chapter 2 – Landrace Gardening Specific Crops
Chapter 3 – Selection in the Second Year and Beyond
Chapter 4 – Applied Landraces
Chapter 5 – Seed Saving
Bonus Course – How Microbes Help Local Adaptation
Besides many hours of quality course content that has been developed over the past year, you will get access to much more:
Dr. James White teaches how plants 'farm' endophytes, and recruit them to keep themselves healthy. Each successive generation in a single location and growing style, gives the plant an advantage. Including practical seed saving tips to preserve the endophytes on the seed coatings, and how to recruit microbes from wild relatives of crop plants.
On the second Saturday of each month, we get a chance to ask Joseph questions about any specific issues that came up during the meeting. Includes access to all previous recordings.
Join an active and engaged private landrace gardening community for inspiration, ideas and peer support. Ask questions, share photos, post your ideas for feedback. Gain access to the current platform for swapping seeds, and benefit as it evolves throughout the year.
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“I just want to tell you how impressed I am with the content of the course. When I read the Landrace Gardening book I was a mixture of impressed with the power of the content, and disappointed with a lack of feeling 'connected' with the living voice of the content. Having the videos of you talking to Joseph in your gardens brought the video to life for me in such an engaging way. Personally, I would pay for this course, even after having read the book. And I'm kinda stingy! ;)”
“Taking the lessons and I’m very excited. It’s something that I was looking for but couldn’t even put it into words, as I didn’t know about landracing.”
“I finished the course last night and the information is really excellent and a great value for the cost. As someone who loves growing and maintaining specific varieties it truly opened my eyes up to the benefits of more genetic diversity in my garden. I can't wait to start experimenting with a spinach landrace this year. ”
“From the bottom of my heart, thank you for putting this course together. It is absolutely mind blowing and inspiring and terrifying and exciting. I know I applied for a scholarship, but this course is genuinely valuable to me as a farmer, as a horticultural enthusiast and as a human. I would like to therefore pay my tuition and hope that perhaps someone more needy than me can take up a scholarship.”
“This is such an interesting course. I'm really enjoying it! ”
“Your changing the way I farm. Brilliant content!”
“Loving the course! I had no idea this was a thing and I find myself telling everybody all the time about it! I am so excited and have gotten multiple neighbors on board and a few signing up for the class as well! ”