Wild Rice, Kernza®, Hazelnuts, Oh My! Join us for discussion, learning, and socializing

The latest news from the Grassland 2.0 team on grassland-based agriculture and sustainable agriculture.

Tag: Perennials

Wild Rice, Kernza®, Hazelnuts, Oh My! Join us for discussion, learning, and socializing

Mark your calendars for two free events on Tuesday, November 1st. Join us over lunch for the next edition of the Grassland 2.0 Digital Dialogue Series! Dr. Mae Davenport, Professor and Director of the Center for Changing Landscapes at the University of Minnesota, will present and facilitate conversation from 12 – 1:30PM CT. Dr. Davenport […]

New podcast episode describes the relationship between perennial ag and water quality

Every couple of weeks, Grassland 2.0 folks get together on Zoom for an informal, project-wide lab meeting. Each meeting features a short presentation, followed by a question-and-answer session, and a group discussion of how the work presented relates to the project as a whole. Presenters have included grazing specialists, grass-fed industry and marketing professionals, and researchers from a wide variety of disciplines.

Caring for the land is caring for ourselves: A deeper look at care work

Aubrey Streit Krug, The Land Institute's director of Ecospheric Studies, talks of the prairie as she leads a sunrise prairie walk that is part of the institute's annual Prairie Festival.

Growing up in a small town in Kansas, where my parents still farm wheat and raise cattle, I understood that humans are social beings who need each other. Only through community effort was it possible to accomplish education in the school system, religious practice through the church, the economic realities of agricultural labor from planting to harvest.