Projects
AfroEcology/TheLand Black, Future…
Farming TheLand, documenting with project journals and photos, deliberately ignoring traditional…
Pawpaw Improvement Project
To continue to select for larger, more delicious pawpaws (Asimina triloba). Other goals are less seed…
Nitrogen fixing, flour corn grex…
Growing out a grex of flour corn to increase genetic flow and increase seed. This population contains…
South Jersey Hopniss from seed in…
Trialing Hopniss from seed of South Jersey origin in South Jersey. Attempting to obtain grow for…
Invitation to deploy your invention on…
Climate smart inventors wanted: Our focus is to build out a bioregional awareness landscape…
Sea Plantain Domestication Project:…
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…
Maypop Passionfruit Improvement…
The purpose of this project is to collaboratively identify and develop more useful varieties of maypop…
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…
Beach Plum Improvement Project
This project aims to identify and develop superior cultivars of native beach plums (Prunus maritima).
Northern Canadian C. moschata…
I am looking to landrace/swarm breed some large, early, cold night tolerant, resilient Curcubita moschata…
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…
Perennial Kale Breeding Project
Oregon-based plant breeder Chris Homanics is working to develop diverse perennial kale lines that…
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…
Dryland Rice for Northern…
There is great potential for growing dryland, or upland, rice in organic cultivation in more northern regions…
Tartary Buckwheat Germplasm…
Evaluating roughly 80 accessions of Tartary Buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum), a valuable pseudo-cereal and…
Mayapple Crop Improvement Project
A long-term breeding project with overlapping goals: developing cultivars of American mayapples (…
EFN Rare Seed Saving & Increases…
For volunteers anywhere interested in being mailed seeds or other plant material to be grown out.…
Chinquapin Chestnut as a Productive…
A collaborative long-term project to identify and/or breed cultivars of chinquapin chestnut (…
EFN Jojoba Improvement Project
A long-term project aimed at developing productive frost-resistant jojoba as a renewable energy crop.