Perennial Wheat ???

Hi everyone!

Just joined. Been lurking for a few weeks. I can't stop thinking about permaculture and self-sufficiency. It's simply "the answer."

Anyway, I wanted to share a couple of links I came across. Apparently, perennial wheat exists, but its yields are really low. Perhaps in a few decades, we'll have perennial wheat that produces like modern wheat. Links below:

National Geographic

Discover Magazine

Hi, Ian, and welcome to Permies!

I'm sorry to say I don't know much about perennial wheat, but we have a thread here that's got a lot of discussion of perennial grain in general:

https://permies.com/t/1316/plants/Sepp-Holzer-perennial-grain

Maybe you'll find something of interest there. I hope so!

Thanks!

There was some discussion of Perennial Wheat on the Homegrown Goodness forum some time ago. I think one line was developed by Tim Peters.

Now I see Tim Peters work was mentioned on the link you posted

I merged your stuff with the following thread. I hope that is okay by you.

Hey, i just read about this perennial wheat called Thinopyrum intermedium "intermediate wheatgrass" this is a huge and awesome thing! has anyone ever tried this?

See the Land Institute: https://landinstitute.org/our-work/perennial-crops/

There is a concentrated effort to perennialize wheat in the PNW. Here is some further reading about the attempt.

https://landinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2001/10/2001-Perennial-Wheat.pdf
https://magazine.wsu.edu/2009/08/27/full-circle/
http://www.agriculture.com/crops/wheat/production/potential-f-perennial-wheat_145-ar16924
http://smallgrains.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Wheat-Production-in-WA-Summary-Report.pdf
http://wsm.wsu.edu/discovery/index.php/tag/perennial-wheat/

Just ran across "Long Root Ale" at my local Brewpub. It was a collaboration between Patagonia and Hopworks done with the Land Institute's Kernza grain. Here is a video about it:

https://vimeo.com/184391007