Gene atforestfarm

those looking for Kernza wheat should know that you can only buy it if you are licensed by the Land Institute and that they require a minimum of 20 acres committed to it plus testing, observation, and reporting.  Of course this cuts out most homesteaders. The people at UofMN seem to be pretty good, but they are locked into protecting this from being captured by Big Ag on the one hand and acting like them on the other.
Bottom line, unless you can come by some illegally, we're limited to waiting for it to be more broadly available.  The salish blue from Edgewood/U of Washington seems more likely, but...heh... just try to find some seed!

Interesting thread. Sounds very familiar. I'm settling for a summer solution of first running vines/fibrous stuff and kitchen waste through my chipper first....taking care to alternate wet/sloppy with dry/fibrous to avoid wet jams....then sorting it through chicken wire into my hammermill shredder (ditto wet/dry). Comes out ready for composting as green.

In northern Minnesota, winter makes this difficult so I try to put a pail out to freeze till I can process/compost in spring when other green is still hard to find.  Worms made an unsuccessful mess for me; others have made it work but getting it small is still an issue. Also looking at kabocha as an option, but can't use it for compost then.

So I got here trying to find a reasonable manual chopper-grinder.....much more difficult than expected. The best design I've found has plastic blades that would just not be up to it. Electrics that might work are unreasonably pricey and most are made for leaves and small sticks. Still looking.

...a preparation of the beneficial fungus Trichoderma virens.  

Trichoderma may work in this situation because beets are chenopods and don't form mycorrhizal relationships. Trich is used to wipe out other fungi in an out of control situation, but then you need to rebuild the soil biology including beneficial fungi. If you don't, you're on the chem fertilizer merry-go-round. There are some EM ("good bacteria")  concentrates for the bacterial portion of the soil biology that'll do for chenopods (beets, spinach, amaranth), but "good" aged compost is the best source for inoculating the beneficial fungi back in.  Elaine Ingham pretty much built her rep on balancing all that; if you can find a soil tech locally, it's worth checking your compost (soilfoodweb.com) .