6 responses to “Adaptation Gardening with Joseph Lofthouse”

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   Derek Clawson

   December 10, 2024

   That was a very cool interview. Sorry if you has said something else that I missed after the brief conversation we had in the chat. I was listening the whole time but I had begun butchering a pig. Really cool that you can eat the pentaphylla bulbils. Hadn’t even known that. Next season I will try some. Didn’t get a great growing year with the yams other than alata. I’m embarrassed to say that the bulbifera I had gotten from you didn’t do well. All but one of the plants rotted out at the base during the growing season and the one survivor wasn’t super vigorous. Must have over watered them. Some areas of my yard has very thick not well draining soil. I was gonna ask to trade you again at some point. Just hadn’t gotten around to emailing you yet.

   Wish I still had all the different yams I once did. Tried to get ahold of the guy I had gotten them from but he isn’t active on that forum anymore it seems. I once had the Saigon purple bulbifera, Hawaiian, CV-1&2 bulbifera, trifida, rotundata, japonica, dodecaneura(beautiful foliage on that one), and possibly another one or two. I’ll keep trying to contact him periodically. Was that Leren that you picked up at A Natural Farm? Once had that too but lost it eventually.

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   John Liberty

   December 13, 2024

   I shared the video in some of the gardening discord servers I belong to. I got a few people interested in Mr Lofthouse and adaptation agriculture. ‍

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      David The Good

      December 14, 2024

      Thank you, John.

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   Sheila M

   December 14, 2024

   Thank you both! Very informative and inspiring.

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   Mike

   December 20, 2024

   Galatians 4:3-6 KJV — Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

   Merry Christmas from the Jones Family from south Alabama, about 20 miles from Florida state line! I’ve been hunting for the wild yam here for about 2 years and haven’t spotted one in Alabama. The closest one I’ve found was about one mile south of the Florida line. What is the closest yam(Dioscorea alata) sighting you’ve seen in your neck of the woods?

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      David The Good

      December 20, 2024

      Amen.

      I saw a wild stand in Molino, by the side of the highway. That is the closest yet. About 45 minutes from Brewton.