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A really great non-profit focused on more sustainable agriculture is The Land Institute. Generally people also don’t also understand that some advancements in a

A really great non-profit focused on more sustainable agriculture is The Land Institute. Generally people also don’t also understand that some advancements in agriculture take decades or even centuries. One example of an advancement from The Land Institute is their focus on domesticating a perennial cousin of Modern wheat. This is no small task given humans have been domesticating modern wheat for thousands or years. Although the cousin still yields relatively less grain, it has significantly deeper roots, is much more resistant to weeds and big in turn requiring less pesticide and can harvested with existing equipment. With time it’s not unreasonable to think it would have comparable yields to modern wheat. They have a number of projects and been focusing on sustainability since 1976. https://landinstitute.org/ https://landinstitute.org/

rudolph9 6y ago
They actually had a run with the grain in General Mills cereal! The commercial name of the Modern wheat cousin Is “Kernza” https://kernza.org/ https://kernza.org/ https://www.dallasnews.com/food/cooking/2019/05/23/can-cereal-save-the-planet-this-sustainable-new-grain-may-bowl-over-the-industry/ https://www.dallasnews.com/food/cooking/2019/05/23/can-cerea...
gdubs 6y ago
+1 to The Land Institute. To give others context, perennials require much less input than their annual cousins, both in terms of labor and also petrochemicals. The other big benefit is carbon sequestration. Perennials typically root far deeper into the soil, giving prairies enormous amounts of (carbon sequestering) root mass. This also has benefits in terms of erosion control — soil loss is one of the biggest, not talked about threats to society. Finally, perennials can help — again through extensive root systems — improve water capture, recharging aquifers.
kickout 6y ago
Yes, Land Institute is excellent. I follow their work closely. They are on the right path.

rudolph9 6y ago

They actually had a run with the grain in General Mills cereal! The commercial name of the Modern wheat cousin Is “Kernza” https://kernza.org/ https://kernza.org/ https://www.dallasnews.com/food/cooking/2019/05/23/can-cereal-save-the-planet-this-sustainable-new-grain-may-bowl-over-the-industry/ https://www.dallasnews.com/food/cooking/2019/05/23/can-cerea...

gdubs 6y ago

+1 to The Land Institute. To give others context, perennials require much less input than their annual cousins, both in terms of labor and also petrochemicals. The other big benefit is carbon sequestration. Perennials typically root far deeper into the soil, giving prairies enormous amounts of (carbon sequestering) root mass. This also has benefits in terms of erosion control — soil loss is one of the biggest, not talked about threats to society. Finally, perennials can help — again through extensive root systems — improve water capture, recharging aquifers.

kickout 6y ago

Yes, Land Institute is excellent. I follow their work closely. They are on the right path.