Projects
AfroEcology/TheLand Black, Future…
Farming TheLand, documenting with project journals and photos, deliberately ignoring traditional…
Invitation to deploy your invention on…
Climate smart inventors wanted: Our focus is to build out a bioregional awareness landscape…
Sea Plantain Domestication Project: Toward a New…
I get excited about a lot of plants, but few plants have lit my fire as much as this one.…
Cooperative Gardens Commission
A grassroots movement (formerly known as "Corona Victory Gardens") to share resources and get…
Job's Tears as a Perennial Grain…
This project aims to study the utility of Job's Tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) as a perennial grain…
Cold-Hardy Prickly Pear Cactus
This project aims to test — and push — the northern limits of a large-fruited species of prickly pear…
Yamberry Yields
Chinese yam (Dioscorea polystachya) produces small aerial tubers ("yamberries"), which grow on the vine like…
Sword Bean as a Young Tree Companion…
This project aims to evaluate the efficacy of two perennial species of sword bean (Canavalia…
Monkey Puzzle Tree Proliferation…
Aimed at younger growers with permanent tenure on their land, this project aims to increase the…
Tartary Buckwheat Germplasm Evaluation…
Evaluating roughly 80 accessions of Tartary Buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum), a valuable pseudo-…
Chinquapin Chestnut as a Productive…
A collaborative long-term project to identify and/or breed cultivars of chinquapin chestnut (Castanea…
EFN Jojoba Improvement Project
A long-term project aimed at developing productive frost-resistant jojoba as a renewable energy crop.