By Darcy Hitchcock
Co-Founder, Sustainability Alliance
Sedona AZ (February 24, 2021) – The foods that humans eat the most—corn, wheat and rice—are annual crops. Each year, they have to be planted, harvested and often the fields are plowed, releasing greenhouse gases. This system requires lots of fossil fuels and pesticides while it destroys the soil. Now there’s a perennial wheatgrass called Kernza and Chinese scientists have developed a perennial rice paddy. Learn more about these innovations. Check out these Kernza recipes.