What is the prospect of a perennial grain revolution of agriculture?
The Land Institute’s Tim Crews, Lee DeHaan, and Aubrey Streit Krug worked alongside international research colleagues from Sweden, Denmark, and France to release a comprehensive new paper in the journal Global…
The next era of crop domestication starts now
This collaborative paper, which includes research from The Land Institute’s Ecosphere Studies and Perennial Oilseeds Programs, highlights the need to apply tools and technologies toward domestication efforts that equally consider…
Sensing Scale in Experimental Gardens: Un-Lawning With Silphium Civic Science
By designing transdisciplinary and participatory methods of engagement, The Land Institute’s Civic Science Program harnessed public participation to visualize cross-scalar relationships in gardening projects through the medium of Silphium integrifolium,…
A social perennial vision for the North American Great Plains rooted in the resilience of a natural system-inspired agriculture
In the 2022 book Creating Resilient Landscapes in an Era of Climate Change, a shift to natural systems agriculture, which is modeled by indigenous agricultural practices and the diverse, perennial mixtures found in prairie ecosystems,…