Organization
The Land Institute
Also known as: Land Institute
A nonprofit research institute pursuing the breeding of perennial grain crops — Kernza intermediate wheatgrass (released commercially 2019), perennial sorghum, perennial sunflower, perennial legumes — as a multi-decade alternative to annual-tillage agriculture. Wes Jackson's framing: "the problem of agriculture is agriculture itself," and the only durable answer is plants that don't need to be replanted. The institutional center of the perennial-grains movement.
What's happening now
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Why this listing
Substrate-building at the species level — breeding the plants the next-millennium agriculture will need. The Land Institute’s work is too long-cycle to fit any quarter’s metrics, which is exactly why it’s the kind of operation a directory like this should hold visible. Listed as knowledge-care infrastructure with [[civilizational-time|civilizational time]] horizons.
See also
Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.
- Enables: [[no-till-farming]]
- Shares approach with: [[rodale-institute]]
- Member of: [[organization]]
- Opposes: [[industrial-agriculture]]
Sources
- The Land Institute published research and Kernza release documentation
- [[wes-jackson|Wes Jackson]], New Roots for Agriculture (1980); Nature’s Matrix (with collaborators)
- Robert Rodale and [[wes-jackson|Wes Jackson]] historical correspondence
Rooted in life.
A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]].
What links here, and how
Inbound connections from across the wiki, grouped by lens and by relationship. These appear automatically — every entity page declares what it links to, and that data populates here on the targets.
Scientific
shares approach with
- The Berry Center two institutional forms of long-arc American agrarian thought — Wes Jackson's at The Land Institute on the science/breeding side, Wendell Berry's at the Berry Center on the cultural/economic side
founded
- Wes Jackson founded 1976 in Salina, Kansas; the perennial-grain breeding research program now in its fifth decade
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