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Perennial Promise Growers Cooperative is promoting their ecosystem and earth-benefitting crops

via The Land Institute

Posted November 1, 2021 12:36 am by Paul Bonneville

"News report from Pioneer PBS in southeastern Minnesota on the newly formed Perennial Promise Growers Cooperative that has an eye towards marketing perennial crops — Kernza®, a perennial grain, to start — that also provide ecosystem services."

There is a lot to unpack here... If you have not heard of perennial grains, perennial crops, or Kernza®, chances are you have not heard of The Land Institute. I'll be following up with more information, but dig into the video and check out the supporting links for this post. According to the Kernza® website:

Kernza® grain is harvested from intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium). This (cousin) of annual wheat has been grown throughout the USA to provide fodder for livestock. Now intermediate wheatgrass is being domesticated as a grain for human food.

It is a grain, not unlike wheat (but smaller), that can be ground into a flour and used for baking, amongst other foodstuffs. We just had some Kernza® pancakes this morning as a matter of fact.