Poets in Praise of Prairie - Kansas Book Festival - The Land Institute

Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of the Perennial Cultures Lab at The Land Institute, will be speaking on a panel hosted by Humanities Kansas at the Kansas Book Festival in Topeka, KS. The discussion will invite readers to engage with native plants through Wild Words, a chapbook of poems and original illustrations that honor the Kansas prairie, from the iconic sunflower and big bluestem to the unexpected antelope milkweed.

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Fri, Sep 25, 2026 - Sun, Sep 27, 2026

Salina, Kansas, USA

Prairie Festival 2026

Join us for Prairie Festival 2026 in celebration of The Land Institute’s 50th anniversary in Salina, Kansas, along the banks of the Smoky Hills River! Engage with a weekend of speakers, perennial grain foods, artists, musicians, hands-on demonstrations, and more from Friday, September 25, through Sunday, September 27. Online registration and meal selections for Prairie […]

Perennial sorghum scientist Stan Cox displays a sorghum plant during a Prairie Festival field tour of Land Institute research plots. Beside him, research assistant Pheonah Nabukalu explains their work.

Fri, Oct 16, 2026 9:00 am CST - 11:00 am CST

Salina, Kansas, USA

Guided tour: October

Join us for one of our monthly guided tours, where we host the public at our main campus for food, conversation, hands-on demonstrations, and an exploration of our facilities! Use the form below to sign up for the October 16th event. If you are unable to attend one of our guided tours but would like […]

Aubrey Streit Krug, director of ecospheric studies, tells a tour group about Kernza, a perennial cereal grain under development at The Land Institute.

Fri, Oct 16, 2026 3:00 pm EST - 4:30 pm EST

Buffalo, New York, USA

6th Annual Food As Medicine Symposium

Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of The Land Institute’s Perennial Cultures Lab, will speak on a panel at day 2 of the 6th Annual Food as Medicine Symposium at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus in New York on October 16, 2026. This symposium looks at the latest insights and best practices in the “Food as Medicine […]

Working from a pit dug to expose plant roots, Tim Crews

Wed, Oct 21, 2026 - Fri, Oct 23, 2026

International Conference on Agricultural Sciences

Dr. Tim Crews, Chief Scientist and International Initiative Director at The Land Institute, will be a keynote speaker at the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute’s (MDPI) 2026 International Conference on Agricultural Sciences (ICAS). With its focus on Agroecology and Sustainable Systems, Tim will speak on The Land Institute’s perennial grain research at Session 3, Fertility Management […]