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"Bringing dynamic back into vegetable gardening, seed saving, and breeding of plants and animals. A joyful and accessible approach to growing tasty, productive, and resiliently diverse food. Advocating a return to traditional regenerative horticulture methods of gardening and farming, while minimizing the use of current agricultural methods. Focusing on communities, and local varieties of crops and animals. Biodiversity and cross pollination allow selection for crops that thrive under ever changing conditions, while lessening the need for costly inputs, like poisons, fertilizer, materials, and labor. Less labor means more time for friends, family, music, dancing, or whatever it is that brings you joy. The book includes detailed suggestions for developing a more reliable food system using local crop varieties. The techniques taught in this book can bring self-reliance and sustainable food security to small scale back yard beginner gardens, large scale farms, and permaculture food forests. A chapter is devoted to pollination and the benefits of encouraging cross-pollination. Chapters are devoted to breeding tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, and grains. Tips on growing many other vegetable varieties are included. The appendix includes a summary of which vegetables and grains are easiest to work with. A chapter is devoted to extending the principles of local gardening to breeding chickens, honeybees, mushrooms, and trees. Reviews ""Landrace Gardening is brilliant."" Dan Barber, Blue Hill At Stone Barns, and Row 7 Seed Company ""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 ""The best part is that everything in this book is adaptable for any gardener."" 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. "" Alan Bishop, Alchemist at Spirits Of French Lick ""Awesome to see this process beginning to work in just one year."" Josh Jamison, HEART Village ""Inspiring. Empowering. VERY important work."" Stephanie Genus ""This book begins to spark the imagination to the possibilities of what we have lost and how to begin to resurrect the return to something even better."" Karin Kee ""Man is way too eager to take extra burdens upon his shoulders, babying and pampering the plant when it should be bred to do all the work itself. Landrace Gardening makes important progress in that direction."" Dave Blanchard ""No Homestead Or Garden Is Complete Without This Book!"" Emsy Doodle ""If one can learn to take a more free approach to gardening and seed saving you will experience much of the joy Joseph receives when he gardens."" Andrew Barney"

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"""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 ""Severe weather patterns impact our crops and gardens, but Joseph's book shows us, in simple terms, how to breed resilience into our favorite food plants. In these pages, he explains the steps for becoming your own seed breeder and highlights the easiest crops to begin with. His brilliant breeding work, briefly but vividly captured here, inspires us to try our hand at it, and to have loving patience for what will unfold."" Merlla McLaughlin, editor ""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 ""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"

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 Severe weather patterns impact our crops and gardens, but Joseph's book shows us, in simple terms, how to breed resilience into our favorite food plants. In these pages, he explains the steps for becoming your own seed breeder and highlights the easiest crops to begin with. His brilliant breeding work, briefly but vividly captured here, inspires us to try our hand at it, and to have loving patience for what will unfold. Merlla McLaughlin, editor 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 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

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Joseph Lofthouse adopted the principles landrace gardening in response to the harsh growing conditions in a high-altitude, short-season, desert garden. Instead of relying on expensive poisons, labor, and materials to coddle the plants, he encourages genetic diversity, cross-pollination, and survival of the fittest, allowing the plants to adapt themselves to the current and ever-changing ecosystem, thus simplifying gardening and seed saving. Joseph loves eating, farming, swimming, hot-springs, sunbathing, bird-watching, running, yoga, leggings, kilts, playing guitar, singing, and living habitually barefoot. Joseph 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 is World Tomato Society ambassador. Joseph learned seed saving from his grandfather and father, on a 6th generation family farm. His varieties are sold by Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Experimental Farm Network, Giving Ground Seeds, Snake River Seed Cooperative, Wild Mountain Seeds, Seed Savers Exchange, High Ground Gardens, Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds, and Hawthorn Farm Organic Seeds. His web site is https: //Lofthouse.com

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