Wes Jackson: Prairie Revolutionary

Living on Earth

Steve Curwood talks with prairie and agriculture expert Wes Jackson about his recent book Becoming Native to This Place published by Counterpoint Press. Nature doesn’t grow her plants in rows, and this leading agricultural thinker says that to get better long-term results, farmers shouldn’t plant them that way either. Jackson is the founder of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas.

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