The freelance plant breeding world encompasses most of the activity that takes place outside of academic and corporate plant breeding. Lone researchers specializing in unusual species, farmers working on adaptation to their specific climate conditions, small seed companies breeding for Organic systems, backyard hobbyists, and many others work to develop new plant varieties, often in obscurity. The Cultivariable podcast highlights freelance plant breeders and also the work of the greater community that makes their work possible, including the plant explorers, collectors, and researchers who provide the raw materials and information so critical to plant breeding.