Projects
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: Toward a New…
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
Cooperative Gardens Commission
A grassroots movement (formerly known as "Corona Victory Gardens") to share resources and get millions…
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 (…
Yamberry Yields
Chinese yam (Dioscorea polystachya) produces small aerial tubers ("yamberries"), which grow on the vine like berries…
Perennial Kale Breeding Project
Oregon-based plant breeder Chris Homanics is working to develop diverse perennial kale lines that taste great,…
Sword Bean as a Young Tree Companion Plant
This project aims to evaluate the efficacy of two perennial species of sword bean (Canavalia…
Monkey Puzzle Tree Proliferation Project
Aimed at younger growers with permanent tenure on their land, this project aims to increase the…
Dryland Rice for Northern Cultivation
There is great potential for growing dryland, or upland, rice in organic cultivation in more northern…
Wetlands Rice Variety Trials
There is great potential for small-scale, organic rice production on marginal wetlands using agro-ecological…
Alternative Farm Education Projects
How do we make opportunities for on-farm agro-ecological education more accessible to more people? Some…
Tartary Buckwheat Germplasm Evaluation
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 (Podophyllum…