A recipe for fighting climate change and feeding the world
Scientists hope a new kind of perennial grain, Kernza, offers a taste of what environmentally-friendly farming could look like. “It’s so different from anything I’ve baked with,” says my baking…
Perennial Promise Growers Cooperative is promoting their ecosystem and earth-benefitting crops
News report from Pioneer PBS in southeastern Minnesota on the newly formed Perennial Promise Growers Cooperative that has an eye towards marketing perennial crops — Kernza®, a perennial grain, to…
KU Scientists Receive $3 Million as Part of Project to Restore Native and Agricultural Ecosystems
LAWRENCE — Five University of Kansas researchers are part of a multi-institutional team awarded a five-year, $12.5 million National Science Foundation grant focused on the restoration of native prairie and…
Scientists look to wheatgrass to save dryland farming and capture carbon
WYOMING – Intermediate wheatgrass is an imported grain that has been grown in the U.S. Great Plains and Intermountain West since the 1930s; but could it be used in marginal…
A Conversation on the Rural Midwest and the Sustainable Development Goals
People across the U.S. are using the Sustainable Development Goals as a road map to build back better by turning these global ambitions into local action. In the Midwest, that…
Jacksonia
Wes Jackson recalls the Topeka farm where he was born, in 1936, as “an agricultural paradise, with an abundance of plants for food, for flower gardens, for beauty.” In that…
RUDN: Deep-Rooted Plants Help Slow Down Climate Change, Says A Soil Scientist From RUDN University
A soil scientist from RUDN University found out that plants with deep root systems promote the storage of organic carbon in the soil. This, in turn, can help reduce the…
New kind of wheat shows promise for cleaning nitrates from soil, water
The soil and water near some of the most polluted wells in Minnesota is almost entirely clean three years after a new type of wheat was planted on the surface….
These Kansans See A Way To Fight Climate Change By Breeding Ecofriendly Crops
SALINA, Kansas — Ebony Murrell and a few interns meticulously sort 99 kinds of silphium. It’s a wild relative to a sunflower. And the biologists at The Land Institute — an outfit…
Can Bioengineered Plants Solve Our Carbon Problem?
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology is being hailed as an indispensable part of the energy transition. Net-zero emissions “will be virtually impossible without CCUS,” says the International Energy Agency (IEA), while…
The Roots of Regenerative Agriculture
Shiloh Maples, an educator and community organizer of Ojibwe and Oglala descent, works with Anishinaabe peoples in Detroit to strengthen urban food sovereignty. Maples’ growers asked for access to culturally…
Agriculture Must Change, With Different Skills and a New Attitude Required
An opportunity came along last summer to do some good for the Earth and at the same time engage in a form of distraction late in my working life. Owners…