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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Organic agriculture is not enough; we must replace annual with perennial crops.
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:04:04 -0400

At 06:09 PM 7/16/2008, you wrote:

Wes Jackson and the Lands Institute has for tried to grow perennial grains for many years. I have heard estimates that it will take 50 to 100 years to come up with a perennial grain. But even if it were to be successful, and his team at the Lands Institute would come up with a new type of grain that has a yield approximating current grains such as wheat or barley, there would still be the problem of marketing, because it wouldn't be wheat and it wouldn't be barley, it would be some sort of new grain. So how do you persuade bakeries to use this new grain instead of wheat to make bread?

From a purely personal point of view, I don't much care whether bakeries use the new grain, as long as I can use it. I'm going to clear another section of trees this year for pasture, and may plant a portion of that in one of these grains if I can get some of it. I like the idea of being able to harvest the seed-bearing portion and leave the rest in the ground as forage.

Liz in SW VA
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