Landrace, or adaptive gardening, isn't for everyone, particularly at the level I choose to apply it. But if each year you save seeds from the plants that thrive best under your conditions, you're adapting those plants to your environment.
People think they're bad gardeners, but in most cases their plants die because they're not adapted to the environment. We seldom know where our plants, seeds and animals have lived. A seed grown with the perfect light, the perfect water, protected from all stress, is going to die when exposed to the real world. Trees grown in greenhouses under artificial light aren't going to do well when plunked into saturated clay soil in full sun.
By adapting them to our conditions over a period of generations, we can get plants and animals that actually thrive, not just survive. (Goingtoseed.org if you want more information)
Go figure. I had to start over.
