Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Liz <liz@allslash.org>]

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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