The Going to Seed Podcast Joseph Lofthouse and Shane Simonsen

Taylor Chance talks to Shane about his many crop breeding projects, including Chinese yams (Dioscorea polystachya), ancestral cucurbits and interspecies goji berry hybrids.

Shane Simonsen talks to Padraic Flood about his work to domesticate the lost tuberous pea crop of Europe, Aardaker, also known as Lathyrus tuberosus.

Shane talks to Dr. Darren Abbey about breeding blue beans, white tomatoes, storage tomatillos and so much more.
Read more about Darren's work - https://the-biologist-is-in.blogspot.com/
Find him on Twitter (@thebiologistisn), Mastodon (@thebiologistisn@redwombat.social), Bluesky (@thebiologistisn), Threads: (@thebiologistisn), Instagram (@thebiologistisn) and Tiktok (@thebiologistisn).

Joseph and Holly reminisce and discuss plans for the year ahead.

This episode features traditional farmer Yevgenii Berben-Zycki, managing his farm with his family in the middle of an active war zone in Ukraine. He outlines his family's work selectively breeding hazelnuts over the last four generations, and how they are reconnecting with historic farming techniques.

Shane and Joseph talk to Raphael Maier about breeding cold hardy passionfruit and other fascinating projects.
Check out Raphael's book- https://www.amazon.com/Breeding-Hardy-Passion-Fruit-Developing/dp/B0C12P63RK
And Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/imperatorplantae/?hl=en