What Is Landrace Gardening?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Creating landraces is the way humans have developed all of the food crops that we have today. I discuss the benefits and give my recommendation for Joseph Lofthouse's excellent book Landrace Gardening. This is the guide to self-sufficiency.
My video on the 5 best books on wild edible plants:
• The 5 Edible Wild Plan...
#gardening #selfsufficiency #seedsaving
Great advice i've been eating plants, berries, mushrooms fruit meat fish all from the wild all my life there is a lot of good food out there, and like you say every time i move to a new area more to learn, every few years i try growing stuff most of it fails, one plant i know you would have fun with if you don't already have is the EGYPTIAN WALKING ONION anyway great seeing you again I love this topic and looking forward to spring😊👍🌱☘🌿
I had Egyptian Walking Onion in my old yard and I know exactly what you mean. That stuff would spread everywhere and was one of the hardiest plants I've ever seen. Used to make me laugh in February when it was already a few inches tall and poking through the snow. Impressive grower. Spring is the best time of year.
I’ve already got blackberries growing naturally. I think I’ll start there. Thanks for the info
Excellent. Anything that grows wild without any work is great to have. Even if it's something you don't care for, chickens can eat it.
Natural GMO is the best GMO. I like your thoughts on letting nature choose the best variety for your area.
Powerful video that I stumbled upon at the perfect time. I recently bred my chicken flock for the traits that I wanted, combining Red Stars with Turkens... and I had been wondering how I should go about doing something similar for plants. This is an even better idea than I had been hoping for.
Excellent. Hope this information sets you off in the direction you're looking for. In the same vein as this book I'd also look into The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka and 2 books by Carol Deppe titled The Resilient Gardener and Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties. They also focus on breeding crops for sustainability rather than working hard to change the environment around them.
I was thinking I'll do a video on my thoughts on breeding chickens at some point. I'm really curious what results you'll get from that cross. Please let me know how they turn out as adults.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing. 😊
Very wise ! Thanks for this 🙏
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed watching.
100 % agree. Being able to feed yourself and your family if shit goes south is a high priority and seed saving is essential if you ask me.
Yes. I love guns and other outdoor stuff, but if one is concerned with preparedness, then producing food and saving seed has to be priority number 1.
Finally got Nature's Garden by Samuel Thayer based off your video. I also agree your video on the 5 best books on wild edible plants is excellent.
Thank you. Thayer's books are top notch.
This is an interesting concept and I like it. Talk about returning to the land! Thanks Steve.
Thank you. I've always been pulled towards returning to the land. I'd like to become part of the local ecosystem rather than a master over it like modern gardening methods strive for. My aim is to just nudge the land in the general direction that benefits me and let nature determine how the details of everything will be worked out.
@@TheBackwoodsHermit Perfect.
Invest in a variety of friut and nut trees. Trees produce the maximum amount of food for the least amount of effort. Growing vegetables are great but can be labor intensive. It may be a few years before you reach maximum production but when they do you will have plenty to eat and preserve. You also may be able to sell your extra for cash. If you have neighbors, you maybe alble to barter with your extra fruits and nuts.
@@wadepurvis3086 I agree with you completely. Perennial plants that fruit every year with minimal work are among the best things that can be planted.
I love blueberries, but can't grow them well on my property. The pH isn't right. So I struggle and try to modify my ground and beat myself up when it doesn't go well. I needed your common sense reminder that it is much easier to plant things that are suited to my environment. I'll check out the book. Thanks for the suggestion! New sub!
@@TheSqueakyWheelFarm Thank you for stopping by! Hope you love Joseph's book as much as I do. It's so effective at challenging how I look at everything and is packed full of those Aha moments.
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Thanks so much 4 your info! Yeah, coming from the "rainbow farting" (permaculturist) side and having a new prepper, neighbor/friend I smile everytime she smuggles some best tasting "whatever " down here to mexico. I am pretty new at gardening but definitely focussing more on mark sheperd's STUN (shear, total, utter neglect) method (tree selection equivalent to landrace annuals landrace seed breeding) another important source if invaluable info: old, local subsistance farmers! Go talk with them and learn what they know about their soils and general growing conditions. You will learn a ton from them you can never find in any book or TH-cam video. In mexico they have a special name for edible "weeds" and they are an important, healty and nutricios part of their traditional cuisine. Wild Amaranth varieties and purslane are only two I know by their english name. I am too lazy to baby finiky brandywine tomatoes, if the second/3rd best tomatoe variety gives my good crops.... thanks again for your informative vid! May your thumbs always be green, as DTG says
Thank you for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I agree completely with everything you've said here. I hope you'll also join in other conversations on this channel. I'm always happy to learn from the knowledge and experience other people have. I don't know much about Mexico, but am interested in the way things are done there.
Very interesting stuff. I just found out recently about landraces and it had the effect of a bomb in my brain hehe. Really looking forward to learn as much as possible about landraces fruits and veggies. I had a quick question maybe you can help me with. I plan on starting a landrace project on my property. So I understand that the first few years can be chaotic a little bit, the survival of the fittest. In this period fruits and veggies are all shape size and colors, and then from there we start selecting for the tastiest, easiest to grow and most productive.
My question is, during those first few years of selection where it is very unstable, is it possible that some fruits and veggies turn not edible? Toxic? Is it possible that the composition of nutrients inside those specimens are so off that they could cause me harm? Thank you.
@@Im-just-Stardust Like yourself, learning about landraces really set off a bunch of "aha moments" for me. I personally avoid growing carrots in this way as they can easily breed with any nearby hemlock. It's not a chance I'm willing to take and would only grow them under more controlled conditions. Beyond that I would follow the method that wild food foragers recommend. When first trying a new food, put a small piece in your mouth and hold it there for a few minutes before spitting out. You're testing for anything abnormal like tingling sensation or wrong tastes. If it seems ok, ingest a small bite and give it a half hour to see if your body has any reactions before eating more. Even once determining something is ok, I still wouldn't gut load on it until having multiple smaller meals of it over a time period.
You're approaching it properly by being concerned for your safety. If you want a deeper dive into that I'd recommend the wild edible books by authors John Kallas and Samuel Thayer as excellent references. I've not yet experienced anything changing enough to become inedible, but won't disregard the possibility that it could happen. Some plant families like the squashes are known for readily interbreeding with other strains of each other. In the Joseph Lofthouse book I mention, he goes deeper into the specifics of that. Hope this helps you be cautious when testing new plants and that plant breeding comes to be something you really enjoy.
@@TheBackwoodsHermit Cheers for the quick answer. Definitely will take precautions. I will also buy the book you mentionned in your video. Have a nice day.
@Im-just-Stardust Thanks for stopping by the channel. You have a good day as well.
Wild food plots for humans seems to be lesser known but for game hunting its a big thing.
Anything edible that will grow wild without me having to do anything to it is perfect in my books.
When I was a kid living in the burbs, I would practice guerrilla gardening in the runoff ditch that ran behind our home. It was watered from the runnoff at the golf course and the soil on the banks was always damp.
I grew some of the best tasting melons and maters down there until the critters and bums discovered my food forest.
@@ChooseFreedom-o1e I love hearing stories of guerrilla gardening. Wish more people would do it. The more food growing everywhere, the better.
How long do seeds stay good for
@@philomenajohnson2995 Varies greatly depending on what species it is and what conditions they are kept in.
I don't want to be terribly controversial but I do think Bermuda grass is a weed.
@@thanielxj11 Fair enough. Not every plant is going to be a miracle addition to our land. I'd just suggest that people consider what unknown value certain plants may bring to us, rather than just label it as a weed simply because a chemical company told us it is so we'll buy their poisonous product to remove it.