Real Ag: An Interview With Rachel Stroer
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.
Episode 5: Living Roots and Perennial Cultures in Agriculture with The Land Institute
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.
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute testing new type of grain to promote Wisconsin farmers and businesses
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.
Click here to read the full article and watch the video from Spectrum News 1.
Iowa grower sees benefits of conservation management
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.
Perennial grain crop Kernza gaining traction in Colorado: 9NEWS
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.
Regenerative and Locally-Adapted Grains in Wyoming and Beyond: Wyoming Food Coalition Speaker Series
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.
Combines and Coffee: Episode 5 with Brandon Schlautman
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.
Harvesting Change: Are Perennial Crops the Future of Food?
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.
2023 Agroecology Summit – Approaches to Advance Agroecology in the US
In December 2023, the University of Vermont’s Institute for Agroecology held the 2023 Agroecology Summit, which hosted several speakers including The Land Institute’s Tim Crews (Keynote) and research partner Nick Jordan of the University of Minnesota’s Forever Green Initiative. The event was also co-produced by Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of the Perennial Cultures Lab at The Land Institute.
My World Too: The Land Institute and Sustain-A-Grain
PBS traveled to The Land Institute’s Salina, Kansas headquarters to learn about the role of perennial grains in the future of agriculture for their “My World Too” series.
Perennial Atlas Project – Civic Science Webinar
Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of the Perennial Cultures Lab at The Land Institute, provides an overview of the Perennial Atlas Project, a new civic science project that will engage up to 250 participants working with perennial grain crops and their annual counterparts across the US to advance perennial grain research.
Click here to learn more about this project and get involved.
Garden Futurist Podcast: What if Farmland Looked Like Ecological Gardening?
The podcast Garden Futurist spoke with Tim Crews, Chief Scientist and Director of the International Program at The Land Institute, on humans’ relationship with agriculture and the planet, the role of perennials in building healthy soil ecosystems, and a discussion on how ecological perennial gardening ideas could scale up to our global agricultural landscapes.