Category: Video

Wichita’s KSN News traveled to Salina for Earth Week 2025 to speak with The Land Institute’s Tessa Peters on Kernza® commercialization. KSN also stopped by local businesses Ad Astra Books & Coffee House and Prairieland Market to learn about their Kernza menu offerings for the week and the role of businesses like theirs in creating market demand for perennial grain foods.

The episode “Wheat in Kansas” from PBS’s America the Bountiful series covers The Land Institute’s work with Kernza, collecting perspectives from Lee DeHaan, Lead Scientist of the Kernza Domestication Program, Scott Helmkey, a Kansas Kernza grower, and Chuck Magerl (Owner) and Jeff Deman (Head of Brewing) of Free State Brewing in Lawrence, Kansas to learn about the journey of Kernza perennial grain from research station to field to glass.

Dr. Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of the Perennial Cultures Lab, speaks on the Perennial Atlas civic science project at The Land Institute and discusses the project’s community approach to scientific research and data collection related to perennial grain crops.

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 through the lens of a perennial agriculture transition.

The Land Institute’s President Rachel Stroer sat down with Smoky Hills PBS at The Land Institute’s Salina, Kansas headquarters for their “Real Ag” series, discussing current progress with perennial grain development and the prospects of a global perennial agriculture transformation.

Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of the Perennial Cultures Lab, spoke with the host of the Common Ground: A Prairie Podcast about the cultural dimensions of agriculture and how to foster resilient and perennial human and plant communities on the prairie.

Nicole Tautges, agroecologist at the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, spoke with Spectrum News 1 to highlight how Kernza can help growers produce a grain crop while still receiving the ecological benefits associated with perennial ground cover.

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Iowa-based Kernza grower Lee Tesdell met with Brownfield Ag News to discuss conservation strategies, including planting Kernza, that have helped him improve the soil structure, water quality, and row crop systems in his operation.

Channel 9NEWS out of Denver, CO spoke with Tessa Peters, Director of Crop Stewardship at The Land Institute, Todd Olander, Kernza Grower of Root Shoot Malting, and Ty Leon, Chef and Co-Owner at Restaurant Olivia in Denver, to learn about the benefits of Kernza in the future of climate-resilient agriculture and its emerging uses in the culinary and food product spaces.

Hana Fancher and Tessa Peters from The Land Institute’s Crop Stewardship Program provided an overview of the process of agricultural transformation from conception to consumption of perennial grain crops and a deep dive into perennial grain commercialization efforts during the Wyoming Food Coalition’s 2024 Speaker Series in June.

Brandon Schlautman, Lead Scientist in the Perennial Legumes Program, discusses insights into developing perennial legume systems and the challenges and opportunities of introducing perennial crops into traditional row cropping systems to enhance soil health and agricultural sustainability.

This episode of Combines and Coffee was recorded live from the Innovative Farmers Association of Ontario conference in Kitchener, Ontario.

Flatland, the Nonprofit Newsroom at Kansas City PBS, visited The Land Institute to learn about the perennialization of grain crops and the role of perennial grains as a climate-resilient component of sustainable food systems of the future. This episode is part of the network’s “Harvesting Change” series, which reports on the region’s food and agriculture systems and is part of PBS’s larger climate programming initiative.