Kelsey Whiting

Kelsey Whiting moved with her family to Ashland, Wisconsin, USA, after completing her PhD in Plant Biology at the University of Minnesota. As an intern at The Land Institute in 2017, she got hooked on perennial agriculture when she realized how transformative a single acre of Silphium integrifolium (silflower, a perennial sunflower oilseed) could be for pollinators. Now at The Land Institute, Kelsey works to create public policy support for Perennial Grain development and adoption.

My most perennial trait: Wonderment – I love discovery.

Kelsey Whiting’s research (publishes as Kelsey Peterson)

2017 Intern, 2017-18 Research Technician, Perennial Oilseeds at The Land Institute