The Promise of Perennials

Field Work

Documentary, Society & Culture

5 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Research at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, over the past couple of decades has advanced the concept of perennial grain crops to the point of commercially available kernza. Mitchell and Zach talk to a Minnesota organic farmer, Luke Peterson, who’s been growing kernza in his fields and cultivating interest in it among other farmers, food processors and retailers. They’re joined by Tessa Peters of The Land Institute who explains where the name came from and why her team is so committed to making perennial grains viable.

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0:00.0	Well, Zach, you ready to go to school to learn you some knowledge here today?
0:05.6	I ain't never liked much school.
0:08.4	Well, too bad because in this episode, we're going to talk about some geography, vocabulary, economics, agronomics, and all kinds of other economics.
0:17.3	Nope. Not interested in that.
0:19.8	But wait, Zach, there's more. Go on. Are you ready for it?
0:25.5	Go on. Zach, we have beer here today. We have risen to the epitome of our careers in the podcast
0:33.7	world. Not quite because we haven't gotten to the helicopter yet, but we get to drink
0:37.7	beer on the podcast today. This is great. And we don't have to go to school? No, I guess we
0:44.4	don't have to go to school. They don't really like if you're drinking beer at school. Then I'm in.
1:03.1	Well, everybody, welcome back to what is sure to be in another very exciting episode of the fieldwork podcast.
1:04.1	I am Mitchell Hora.
1:06.7	And I'm Zach Johnson.
1:09.3	We are farmers talking to farmers.
1:14.8	Thanks a ton to the Walton Family Foundation for all of their support of the fieldwork podcast this season.
1:19.7	Today we are learning about a brand new topic, and that is called Kernza.
1:23.6	Another topic that I know zero about.
1:28.1	Well, see, now you're going to know how I felt when we were talking about things like i already forgot what it's called carbon sequestration see i know just about zero about that
1:37.0	so i rely pretty heavily on you kernza we're going to have to figure out what the heck is it how
1:43.1	we're going to grow it how we're going to sell it how we're going to eat it and evidently how are we going to have to figure out what the heck is it, how we're going to grow it, how we're going to sell it, how we're going to eat it, and evidently, how are we going to drink it out of a nice brown bottle?
1:49.9	Yeah, that's the part that I'm really, really interested myself, but we're going to get to that later.
1:55.2	Right. I guess we've got to do the business part first. We've got Tessa Peters from the Land Institute in Kansas here with us.
2:03.3	The script says Tessa Peters, expert in Kernza from the Land Institute. So Tessa, please tell us what
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