Melissa Barton

The prominent scientific journal Nature recently profiled one of the first scientists I interviewed as a student journalist at Colorado College, Jerry Glover of the Kansas-based Land Institute. Glover and other Land Institute scientists are working to create a new form of perennial agriculture, based on the natural prairie ecosystem of Kansas.

Perennial agriculture has the potential to revolutionize farming, creating low-maintenance crops that don’t require frequent replanting and use of heavy machinery or cause nutrient depletion in the soil. Read more about Jerry Glover and the Land Institute in Nature or find out firsthand about Land Institute research in “Future Farming: A Return to Roots?” by Jerry Glover, Cindy Cox, and John P. Reganold in Scientific American.