Hej hej,
now the lectures are almost over and it is time for group work and individual assignments. In both of our courses we can choose a topic for the individual paper by ourself. While searching for literature and reference we came across an interesting website, called “The Land Institute” (https://landinstitute.org). They do a lot of research about perennial wheat, perennial oilseeds and perennial legumes. The perennial wheat program at The Land Institute creates hybrids made from crossing annual wheat varieties with wheatgrass species. They also have a global inventory project which is a collaboration between this institute, one of the world´s largest research botanical gardens and the Saint Louis University. The goal is to identify wild, herbaceous perennial species for pre-breeding and usage in perennial crop polycultures.
This was a topic I never thought about: For me, growing grains was always an annual practice. If you are interested in, just visit the website, it´s worth it. There is also a lot of research about perennial grain done at SLU Alnarp.
This week will be exciting: we will have an Agroecology-meeting, hopefully with a lot of Agroecology students from different years and we will celebrate Saint Lucy’s day.
So, until next time! 🙂