This podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners and food curious folks - who want to dig deeper into where their food comes from. It’s about how new crop varieties make it into your seed catalogues and onto your tables. In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it.
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This podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners and food curious folks - who want to dig deeper into where their food comes from. It’s about how new crop varieties make it into your seed catalogues and onto your tables. In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it.
S2E2 Lofthouse-Oliverson Landrace Muskmelon – Free The Seed! Podcast
Free The Seed!
36 minutes 9 seconds
6 years ago
S2E2 Lofthouse-Oliverson Landrace Muskmelon – Free The Seed! Podcast
S2E2: Lofthouse-Oliverson Landrace Muskmelon
This podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners and food curious folks who want to dig deeper into where their food comes from. It’s about how new crop varieties make it into your seed catalogues and onto your tables. In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it.
In this episode, host Rachel Hultengren spoke with Joseph Lofthouse about his process of landrace breeding to develop varieties locally-adapted to the harsh conditions of his farm in northern Utah, and about the 'Lofthouse-Oliverson Landrace Muskmelon', a variety that came out of that breeding work.
Full transcripts are available on the Open Source Seed Initiative's website at https://osseeds.org/category/free-the-seed-podcast/
Free The Seed!
This podcast is for anyone interested in the plants we eat – farmers, gardeners and food curious folks - who want to dig deeper into where their food comes from. It’s about how new crop varieties make it into your seed catalogues and onto your tables. In each episode, we hear the story of a variety that has been pledged as open-source from the plant breeder that developed it.
