Perennial

Richard Harris visits Wes Jackson’s Land Institute, and also talks with plant breeder Lee De Haan.

As the silver-haired Kansan [Jackson] is fond of saying: If you’re working on a problem you can solve in your own lifetime, you’re not thinking big enough.

Are those chickadees that we hear in the background of the outdoor actualities Black-cappeds or Carolinas? Kansas is a contact zone.