Projects
AfroEcology/TheLand Black, Future Farming &…
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 weight (7% and…
Nitrogen fixing, flour corn grex seed generation…
Growing out a grex of flour corn to increase genetic flow and increase seed. This population…
Creating a cabbage grex
In this project, I will be crossing a wide range of cabbage varieties to create an adaptive grex for different climates
South Jersey Hopniss from seed in South Jersey…
Trialing Hopniss from seed of South Jersey origin in South Jersey. Attempting to obtain grow for…4H tricolor corn project
I have a junior 4H student (middle school level) who is interested in seed saving and plant breeding. She is working on…
Montana Tomato Project
What I would like to do, is collaboratively restart the regional tomato breeding program that started around a 100 years…
Aerial Rooted Nitrogen Fixing Corn
I have been breeding corn for a decade to have aerial roots and produce dark purple corn. I now have red corn…
Invitation to deploy your invention on our land…
Climate smart inventors wanted: Our focus is to build out a bioregional awareness landscape focused…
Cold-hardy avocado breeding for the PNW
Seeking to find the hardiest Mexican-race avocado cultivars and landraces available, then interbreed…
Breeding a new cold-frame pea
To combine the genetics of extra dwarf peas with those of the very cold hardy Austrian winter peas to breed a new…
Sea Plantain Domestication Project:…
I get excited about a lot of plants, but few plants have lit my fire as much as this one.…
High Anthocyanin Purple Foliage Corn / Maize…
To breed a superior highly adaptive purple foliage corn that can thrive in Colorado (and elsewhere)…Project Jo-Gee-Oh (miniature flour corn…
The development of a miniature flour corn variety
Watermelon-Citron Melon Hybrids
Selecting the best genetics of landrace watermelon and citron melons for Northern Colorado, USA. Looking for…
Perennial Dividing Onion Diversification
A long term project to bring back the diversity in potato onions and other perennial dividing onions by…
Maypop Passionfruit Improvement Project
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 in warm…
Beach Plum Improvement Project
This project aims to identify and develop superior cultivars of native beach plums (Prunus maritima).
Canna edulis
Update- I have a small quantity of spare seed of C. edulis "Queensland arrowroot" pollinated with a wide variety of…
Northern Canadian C. moschata Landrace Breeding…
I am looking to landrace/swarm breed some large, early, cold night tolerant, resilient Curcubita…
Cold-Hardy Prickly Pear Cactus
This project aims to test — and push — the northern limits of a large-fruited species of prickly pear cactus (…
Perennial Kale Breeding Project
Oregon-based plant breeder Chris Homanics is working to develop diverse perennial kale lines that…