This is awesome, as always. Thank you, Joseph.

David The Good pointed me in your direction

I had no idea my gardening method was called that. I am in the Andes in Cusco at almost 10,000 feet above sea level. I have tried to let our crops adapt to our weather and location. Volunteer plants are the best. I never had as good broccoli as when I let the plants do their thing and the birds sow for me, just transplanting the ones growing on the sides of the beds a got awesome heads. 3rd year working on my wild garden and not even the drought this year has stopped us.

Great post, and just what I need to hear. I planted a packet of mixed kale seeds last spring. One of those plants survived the multiple-day 108-degree hot spell here in South Central Texas last summer and is still growing after our 17-degree drop this winter. I'll let it go to seed and plant those to see what happens. This is my first attempt at deliberate seed saving.

The Live or Don't school of gardening is my fav. Thank you you are my people.

Great info

Nice to see that Joseph is still growing & teaching about plant breeding. I haven't checked the Home Grown Goodness board in years. That's where I first saw some of Joseph's work. I hope he continues his work for many years to come.

i can't wait to grow your high carotene sweet corn this year. I am planning to do a three sisters patch

Love it. I'm getting to know a bit more about your thought processes. Respectable for sure. My tomato mutant appeared by making lots of crosses and heat stressing the F1 and F2 generations, with the intent of monitoring and picking winners. Winners meaning better adaptability to heat for me.

Thank you so much dear Joseph on your such in depth experiences, thoughts and perspectives for me to being able to understand this so well. Being legally DeafBlind, comes that people always tell me things, don'ts and the means which I can access resources being so limited. This really supports me to know it's much appreciated of collecting seeds'/plants' by any means I can within reasons (like as you said, don't go TOO far out with the climates and etc like your citruses example).

I hope you're not allergic to money cuz your channel will probably blow up soon. Keep it coming bud you got a good angle on things.

Please forgive me if people say this all the time... but this is my first time seeing you... and from the first words out of your mouth my first thought was "Gosh, he sounds just like Mister Rogers!" It was just surprising, given how different from him you look.

Farmer Lofthouse is an inspiring speaker, he blew my mind with this approach.

I love this! Survival of the fittest! Wonderful! I really want things to be independent in my garden as I’m working 😅 it’s so hard to get time to do a everything

I grew Scarlett Runner beans in Florida, but moved to NE Arizona at 6,000 feet up. I finally got some to flower last summer, but didn't produce seeds.

This is an expansion on planting at least 2 varieties of same heritage species to create a dipole. Local Seed to assure acclimation had occurred to me. Thx for flushing it out further. 🌱

Well, I must say this is very interesting! I love your attitude. The whole idea of developing personalized landrace seeds is so out of my wheelhouse that I don't think I've ever heard of anyone doing it before, other than corn farmers in Mexico. I'm thrilled to think of the possibilities! I live near Seattle, with mild summers that don't grow watermelons well, so your story about them sounds familiar. I love the idea of working over multiple seasons to allow them a chance to adapt and naturalize to our environment. It's a very worthwhile goal! Shipping food across the country in trucks seems so astronomically wasteful to me that I can't stand it. I would deeply love to see every area in the country do this kind of work to develop their own local specialties. Maybe it takes a special kind of person to see the worth in this. Most folks don't think about where food comes from at all. Most gardeners only think of wrestling plants and their environment into obedience. I love the gentle approach. But it takes a lot of patience and generosity of time and space and spirit to even approach the task. I don't own a garden of my own, since I live in an apartment where it's not possible. But this resonates with me. I play Minecraft, and my favorite part of the game is breeding horses, working over generations to select the ones with characteristics I like (speed, jump height, health). So even though I know that's not the same, I think it is somehow in the same vein. I hope that doesn't sound ridiculous of me to claim. I look forward to learning a lot more about this topic. I hope I may have a way to join in the fun myself someday!

I’m so excited about this and cannot wait to start! It’s coming soon!

Luv u jo xx

Plant the seeds and let them live or die on their own... Unfortunately it can be so expensive to get enough variety to get that moving. When I started my grain corn in 2022, I think I spent about $80 on 30-40 different varieties, and I got around a dozen cobs of corn, half of which were barely mature. 2023 I had a total loss of what I planted (life arrived, and a lack of watering killed them off). Now, in 2024, planting my 2022 left over seed, I have about 100-200 plants that have germinated!

Wow it's been months since you put out a video..yay

My own thinking on what everyone else calls "survival of the fittest" has been that it's really "survival of the fit enough." An organism will survive and reproduce if it can do so in the conditions afforded it. That doesn't mean it's "the fittest". It just means it's good enough.

Sepp holzer from the Alps said he threw citrus seeds in the compost and some came up , so he transplanting those and they worked for a while. But I saw a video where. He had 3 feet of snow...

I had the most beautiful okra plant last year and I saved seeds from it I hope I get some more awesome okra this year

First I have to say that your channel has been such a good find, you perfectly put into words what I've always felt! I'm hoping to buy a small piece of land very soon and put this into action. What do you think of including seeds from grocery store produce? Like saving the seeds from a butternut squash, or buying a nine bean soup mix from the pantry aisle? That's always intrigued me!

Does anyone know if there is someone working on okra with cool weather tolerance? I'd like to grow some in the Fall since our summer is so brutal. It's just getting in the mid to low 90s here but with an average frost date in November. I saw a video where a commercial variety had a little bit for the man growing them. However, the variety was always sold out whenever I found it. Now I can't remember the name lol I may throw some okra seed out and just see what happens. I have several varieties, including heirloom, different colors, and even a dwarf hybrid. If nothing else, I've read the leaves and flowers are edible 😁

Will the seeds reseed themselves without being selected?

Does beans cross pollinate readily? Or do we have to hand pollinate for this to happen? Asking bc normally they would self pollinate