Lofthouse, Joseph: - Joseph Lofthouse adopted the principles Landrace gardening in response to the harsh growing conditions in a high-altitude, short-season, desert garden.
His web site is https: //Lofthouse.com.
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.
Joseph learned seed saving from his grandfather and father, on a 6th generation family farm.
He is World Tomato Society ambassador.
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.
Joseph loves eating, farming, swimming, hot-springs, sunbathing, bird-watching, running, yoga, leggings, kilts, playing guitar, singing, and living habitually barefoot.
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.
Lofthouse, Joseph: - Joseph Lofthouse adopted the principles Landrace gardening in response to the harsh growing conditions in a high-altitude, short-season, desert garden
