Market Farming

["Allan.Balliett" <allan.balliett AT gmail.com>]

Wow, Got any speaker tapes, Leslie/!? ;-)

Are they only selling flour at this point?

> I'm not really following this conversation as I'm swamped at the 
> moment, but thought I'd mention one thing. Please excuse me if it 
> has already been mentioned....  Wes Jackson at The Land Institute 
> has been working on perennializing annual grain crops. They have a 
> nearly-market-ready perennial wheat that they're calling Kernza that 
> they are trialing on a larger scale next year.  They sold some 
> Kernza flour last year at their annual festival (The Prairie 
> Festival) and it was fabulously delicious and it is more nutritious 
> than (annual) wheat.  Grown as a perennial, Kernza has a MUCH longer 
> root system that is able to hold soil against erosion, be far more 
> drought tolerant, and require lower inputs. Jackson also intends it 
> to grow as part of a polyculture--not as a monoculture 
> crop--however, I'm less knowledgeable about how that harvest works. 
> Anyway--I don't believe it is available as a commercial seed crop 
> yet, but I expect it will be in the next few years. And they MAY be 
> loo
>  king for small growers who will trial it in their area(s).  By the 
> way....the Kernza flour sold for $10/lb., though I think it was 
> mostly a fundraiser for their research. We bought some to try it and 
> I'm glad we did--best pancakes we ever ate!--but we couldn't afford 
> to eat like that too often! 
>
> --Leslie (who regularly attends The Prairie Festival, Salina, KS)
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