i.am Rohan Pinto

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Prairie Pioneer Seeks To Reinvent The Way We Farm (npr)

NPR interviewed fellow Kansan, and founder of the Land Institute, Wes Jackson, whom they describe as “a good-ol’-boy farmer from the Plains.” Jackson is working on “ways to fix what climate change and population increases have done to our food supply.”

Listen to this All Things Considered story from NPR, to hear more about what Jackson is doing to combat the “problems created by large-scale farming and mass-production” by “creating a resilient food system through cross-breeding perennial native grasses (grasses that come up every year) with wheat, to see if they can develop a plant that needs only be planted once.” (renest)

I would love to try and attend next years “Annual Prairie Festival” especially after hearing Jackson inciting sales pitch, “We have music, the barn dance. It’s sort of an intellectual hootenanny!”…There’s no place like home…I’m there!