Fwd: [COMFOOD:] 3 Wise Men, Planting Ideas Where It Counts

[Kathryn Alexander]

I thought everyone would be interested in this article. Wes Jackson is a lion in grain genetics. He's been working for years at the Kansas Land Institute to create a natural means of grain growing and harvesting that can feed the world without destroying the land.

Contact Your Senators and Representatives and back their approach

Warmly,
Kathryn

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/21/AR2009072100645.html

3 Wise Men, Planting Ideas Where It Counts

Fred Kirschenmann, from left, Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry in Washington. (By Michael Temchine For The Washington Post)

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

"Eating is an agricultural act," essayist Wendell Berry famously wrote. It's also a political one. Which is why last week Berry, geneticist Wes Jackson and sustainable-agriculture advocate Fred Kirschenmann made a pilgrimage to Washington to make a case for a new kind of food policy.

Jackson is president of the Kansas-based Land Institute; Kirschenmann is a fellow at Iowa State University's Leopold Center and president of New York's Stone Barns Center. The three met with administration officials and senators to promote a 50-year-farm bill, a proposal for gradual, systemic change in American farming. The plan asks for $50 million annually for plant breeding and genetics research. But it also puts forward a new vision of agriculture, one that values not only yields but also local ecosystems, healthy food and rural communities.

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