Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination, International Edition in Standard Color (Landrace Gardening – International Editions)

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Grow resilient, locally adapted food—no chemicals, no coddling, no stress.

Tired of babying plants that refuse to thrive? In Landrace Gardening: Food Security Through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination, author and adaptation gardener Joseph Lofthouse reveals a revolutionary approach to growing food that thrives under real-world conditions—without expensive inputs or rigid control.

Joseph’s methods empower you to grow crops that adapt themselves to your unique garden, saving you time, money, and frustration—while increasing abundance and food security.

In this book, you’ll discover how to:

🌱 Grow strong, adaptable crops—even in short seasons, dry climates, or harsh conditions

🔄 Encourage natural cross-pollination to unlock powerful genetic diversity

💪 Select for survival traits so your plants do the hard work of thriving

💸 Reduce reliance on chemicals, fertilizers, and outside inputs

🥕 Save seeds with confidence, knowing they’ll perform better year after year

🌍 Create a self-sustaining garden uniquely adapted to your soil, weather, and ecosystem

Whether you’re a backyard grower, homesteader, or food security enthusiast, Landrace Gardening offers a refreshing alternative to conventional gardening—one rooted in cooperation with nature, not control.

Join the growing movement of gardeners discovering the joy and freedom of landrace seeds. Your best garden might start by letting go.

Reviews

“The best part is that everything in this book is adaptable for any gardener.” Jere Gettle, founder Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co., North America’s largest heirloom seed company.

“Landrace Gardening is brilliant.” Dan Barber, James Beard Foundation top chef in America in 2009. Row 7 Seed Company

“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, Organic Seed Alliance board member

“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. Padvorac Farm

“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

From the Publisher

Joseph Lofthouse

Joseph Lofthouse, a popular speaker at farming conferences worldwide, authored Landrace Gardening, the French translation Semences Paysannes Métissées, and Hundred Hour Yoga Teacher Training. He has grown landraces and sold seeds since 2010. He devotes himself to helping gardeners and farmers grow healthy plants with less stress and empowering communities to adapt seeds to their local conditions.

Cross pollination enhances reliability

Comparing a huge, bright, promiscuous tomato flower with exposed stigma, to a small, dull inbreeding tomato flower. Cross pollination allows the plants to adapt themselves to current local conditions — leading to reliability.

Adaptation Agriculture

Landrace sweet peppers can be any shape, size, or color. Joseph selects for wonderful sweet flavor, and high productivity in a short, cool, growing season. When great parents cross with each other, the offspring tend towards greatness.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CNRYXDC8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Father of Peace Ministry
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 20, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 156 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8989559916
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.36 x 9 inches
Part of series ‏ : ‎ Landrace Gardening – International Editions
Best Sellers Rank: #573,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #113 in Horticulture (Books) #379 in Organic & Sustainable Gardening & Horticulture #394 in Vegetable Gardening
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