PERENIAL GRAINS ARE FIT FOR CLIMATE, NITRATES AND THE SOIL According to Whole Foods Market, grocery grains are refocusing on the environment in 2022, emphasizing grains grown via agriculture practices and farming processes that help address soil health. One such grain on the Whole Foods Market trend list is Kernza, the first commercially-viable perennial grain in the United States. It has a long, dense root system that can greatly reduce nitrate-nitrogen leaching and deliver other environmental benefits to soil, water and climate. It is also one of sixteen new perennial and winter crops and cropping systems being developed and improved by the University of Minnesota’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) Forever Green Initiative (FGI). Source
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