The philosophy or methods of Luther Burbank, emphasizing practical plant breeding, agricultural innovation, and the selection of superior plant varieties for widespread cultivation.
Formed from Luther Burbank's name with the suffix '-ism', creating a noun to describe the set of practices and beliefs associated with his revolutionary approach to horticulture in the early 20th century.
Burbankism represents an optimistic belief that human ingenuity could remake nature for human benefit—it captured the American Progressive era's faith in science, but also raises modern questions about genetic modification and agricultural monoculture.
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