What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guest: Wes Jackson (Prairie Festival) Wes Jackson committed himself and the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, to spend as long as it took to develop perennial grain in polycultures. They succeeded in less than 50 years. The Land Institute has an annual Prairie Festival at the end of September. We describe this year's festival and then hear Wes discuss why it took 10,000 years for development of perennial grains and where perennial varieties of all the major grains are being cultivated today, part of his remarks at the June ecological conference Seizing the Alternative. We end with Wes and John Cobb comparing old and new scientific paradigms for how nature works.