Perennial Possibilities at Prairie Festival 2026

Hear Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of The Land Institute’s Perennial Cultures Lab, speak on perennial possibilities at the upcoming Prairie Festival 2026 and the 50th anniversary of The Land Institute. This segment on High Plains Public Radio dives into The Land Institute’s mission, this landmark event, and the prairie landscape that will soon host hundreds of people for a weekend of art, music, food, speakers, and more.

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Prairie Festival 2026 on Kansas Public Radio’s 105 Live

Hear about the upcoming Prairie Festival 2026 event at The Land Institute on Kansas Public Radio’s 105 Live. Dive into the music, art, speakers, food,...

Earth Day Kernza® event with Sustain-A-Grain and WSU’s NICHE

Wichita’s NPR covered the Earth Day Kernza® event held by partners at Sustain-A-Grain and WSU Tech’s NICHE culinary program, which highlighted the culinary possibilities of...

Food with Mark Bittman: Living Roots

Living Roots co-editors Aubrey Streit Krug and Liz Carlisle appeared on the Food with Mark Bittman podcast alongside farmer, activist, and author Leah Penniman, who...

February 26, 2026

Perennial Possibilities: Living Roots discussion on High Plains Public Radio

Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of The Land Institute’s Perennial Cultures Lab and co-editor of Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods, recently joined High Plains...

February 6, 2026

Living Roots authors discuss perennial foods on Wisconsin Public Radio

The Land Institute’s Aubrey Streit Krug and author Liz Carlisle, co-editors of the Living Roots book, appeared on The Larry Meiller Show on Wisconsin Public...

“Living Roots: The Promise Of Perennial Foods” Book Discussion With Liz Carlisle And Aubrey Streit Krug

Hosts of the Savanna Institute’s “Perennial AF” podcast interviewed authors Dr. Liz Carlisle and Dr. Aubrey Streit Krug (The Land Institute’s Director of Perennial Cultures)...

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Kernza Grain

Kansas’ perennial grain of the future

Travis Russell, the owner and chef of The Public at the Brickyard in Wichita, Kansas, serves local ingredients and microbrewed beers in the historic Old...

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From Grain to Glass: Why you should be drinking beer brewed with Kernza® grain

Conservation organization Clean Wisconsin interviewed research partner Nicole Tautges at Michael Fields Agricultural Institute in Wisconsin and Joe Walts, brewer at Karben4 Brewing, for their...

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Ear to the Ground 367: Perennial Pivot and Disrupting the Food Chain

Listen to Episode 367 of the Ear to the Ground podcast to hear partners at the Forever Green Initiative at the University of Minnesota discuss their perennial...

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How Do Perennial Crops Benefit Land and Food Systems?

The Land Institute’s Tim Crews speaks about his personal journey to The Land Institute, the organization’s research efforts in perennial grain crop and cropping system...

Agroecology: From Annual to Perennial Crop Farming

Agroecology: From Annual to Perennial Crop Farming

Tim Crews, The Land Institute’s Chief Scientist and International Initiative Director, appeared on the Care More Be Better podcast to discuss the future of food...

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Oregon Grapevine: The Land Institute

Tammy Kimbler, Chief Communications Officer at The Land Institute, appeared on a new podcast from Oregon Grapevine to discuss the history of the organization in...