The Land Institute

Fantastic research being done by the Land Institute! Thanks for the tour and the impressive work you're doing!

Great experience at the TLI, most especially getting to know how nature intercepts conserving land systems and preserving our water systems.

I took a tour of The Land Institute as part of a class at my local community college. It's truly amazing what they're working on here. Employees are also very knowledgeable and friendly. Great experience.

Staff are very enjoyable to be around . this place is very interesting. My kids love cleaning out there with me and kids don't usually beg to go clean anything 🤪😉

Great place where they do amazing work for the environment.

Grass Rules Everything Around Me. Our sun emmits peak wavelength of 555nm green more than any other wavelength which is to say we have a green sun. We evolved to see more green with green sensors in our eyes, then red and blue because there’s so much green energy from our sun. It’s why green is in the middle royGbiv is in the base around which we got from god the rainbow sign. Because green is our home for visual perception. Which is why I suppose grass looks at green photon wavelength it and says nah I think we’re good on the green thank you and bounces it back. Reflecting back on my studies in savannah ecology i am blessed to have the Land Institute. An investment in grass is an investment in appreciating annual plant life cycle vs perrenial. ecological stressors shape the DNA and crashes are greedy and hungry and fast live fast die hard plant intelligences. It’s the perennials that think ahead. what is it 80% of our diet is grass. And you are what you eat. So 90% of what Americans think is influenced by the fact that they are mostly corn. I prefer acorns myself. More of a gatherer than a hunter or husband. Grasslands are giant solar panels that pollute the air with oxygen and clean clear water vapor as waste. Grasslands are solar panels for vast stretches of our planet that have the option to either go desert dry death and fire or grassland and fire and life and carbon captured. Grass has evolved during period of global warming and will continue to become more relevant as we go through hours right now

The people here are amazingly kind, and the work they are doing is very important. I dropped by without any kind of appointment and they took me on a tour and answered all of my questions for over an hour. Highly recommend.

Every year at the end of September the Land Institute holds a prairie festival celebrating the land and the people of the prairie. It's like a Chatauqua with excellent speakers, tours of the research they are doing and music! This year they had breakfast Saturday morning of pancakes made from Kernza grain. Kernza is a perennial crop that is far more sustainable to farm.

I checked out their website, prompted by a column by Thomas Friedman. I was not impressed. They apparently never heard of the One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka, published in 1975, which shows that annual grains can be raised in a natural, polycultural, sustainable manner. We don't need perennial grains. Nor do I think that their breeding program can work. Nor do I think that they take into account the difficulty of harvesting more than one crop in the same season. Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener

If you are passionate about Kansas, agriculture, nature, sustainability and staving off global hunger check of the Land Institute. http://www.landinstitute.org/ The Institute's annual Prairie Festival is such an unforgettable experience and an opportunity to hear the some of the brightest scientists, politicians and visionaries from across the planet speak their minds. Delicious catered organic dinners and a barn dance are not to miss!

Wes Jackson won a genius award for his research into potential farming methods of the future -- 100 years into the future -- and I can see why. Unlike big industrial farms that are biodiversity deserts, the Land Institute showcases a farm that is teaming with life. Too much to explain here, in a nutshell the message is that it is time for us to learn to become native to our places of habitation. I made 2 trips to visit this farm on a motorcycle and 1 trip in a broken down car, but each trip was worth it. Each trip was an exciting adventure well worth the effort. Don't just drop by un-announced, but call ahead and schedule your visit during one of their Prairie Festivals. They are doing serious work and the land is their laboratory or office. The Prairie Festivals always attract a great group, with a real interest in obeying nature in order to control her (paraphrase from Francis Bacon).