Underground stock for northern North America

June 23, 2022 10:09 AM

William Whitson breeds, propagates, and sells propagules of minor-in-the-US crops, especially ulluco, mashua, yacon, oca, and Andean potato. If you're interesting in growing them, Cultivariable might be able to sell you seeds, tubers, or tissue culture plantlets. He also has a pleasant forum with a lot of cultivation advice and a podcast on freelance plant breeding. Previously, in a comment.
posted by clew (4 comments total)

And repentant potato engineer redux.
posted by away for regrooving at 10:51 AM on June 23, 2022

i just commented about Oca in one of the other potato posts (posts potato?)

If you have the ability to cultivate Oca - try it - you won’t be disappointed. They are lovely.
posted by inflatablekiwi at 11:36 AM on June 23, 2022 [1 favorite]

It seems fair to clarify that Whitson of Cultivariable is not the repentant engineer; he reviewed a book by the repentant engineer.
posted by clew at 3:34 PM on June 23, 2022 [1 favorite]

The Oca is known as a yam in New Zealand, which was extremely confusing for us when trying to assemble a US-type Thanksgiving dinner.
posted by rednikki at 6:25 PM on June 23, 2022 [2 favorites]