Projects
Invitation to deploy your invention on our land…
Climate smart inventors wanted: Our focus is to build out a bioregional awareness landscape focused…
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 millions…
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).
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…
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…
EFN Rare Seed Saving & Increases
For volunteers anywhere interested in being mailed seeds or other plant material to be grown out. You will…
Chinquapin Chestnut as a Productive Food Crop
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.