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A Perennial Dream Our Daily Bread 30

Wheat is an annual plant; it dies after setting seed. Each year, the farmer has to prepare the land, sow seed, fertilise and protect the plants. When the ground is bare, between crops, wind and water can erode the soil. The shallow root systems of annual plants fail to exploit the resources of the soil and do little to improve it. So although wheat feeds us, it does so at considerable cost to the environment. It isn’t sustainable.

What if wheat were perennial?

Wes Jackson The Land Institute

Wes Jackson: “If your life’s work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you’re not thinking big enough.”

Photo by Jerry D. Glover; annual wheat on the left, Kernza™ on the right.

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