Create Your Own Locally Adapted Garden Seeds
Create Your Own Locally Adapted Garden Seeds  
Podcast: Growing Greener
Published On: Wed Feb 14 2024
Description: Hybrid fruit and vegetable seeds are like thoroughbred horses –  extraordinary performers but not resilient or good at coping with adverse conditions.  When they didn't succeed in Joseph Lofthouse's Utah garden, he created his own "landraces", biodiverse crop strains that "promiscuously pollinate" and speedily evolve to thrive in local conditions and adapt to the gardener's style of cultivation.