Our expanding grower network, and the initiative to enroll acres and bring scale to perennial regenerative agriculture with continuous living cover crops like Kernza creates far-reaching positive environmental benefits.
Deep roots develop from crops that are planted once, then harvested each fall for 3 full seasons without replanting.
Early adoption efforts in the last 20 years created the groundswell of Kernza popularity and support, the flavor and benefits of Kernza are widely known.
Today, Arcola brings wide adoption and scale to expand the important work, for conservation, habitat, and a vibrant food supply.
As a vital food source, it allows food and beverage companies and product manufacturers to incorporate high nutrition, toxin-free perennial grains into their existing product lines.
For consumers, school systems, chefs, and institutional food providers, it delivers great flavor and taste as a high protein, high fiber, plant-based whole food.
As a grain and flour grown without genetic modification or herbicides/pesticides, there is no gluten sensitivity that plagues our genetically modified food supply today.
It is a return to the unprocessed, toxin-free cereal wheat grain and flour foods that taste good, are good for you, and are good for the planet.
For far-reaching social and local impact, we address food insecurity and food equity head-on, supporting local communities and families who need access to fresh, sustainably grown food, with simple to prepare recipes with Kernza flour and grain.
For farmers, Kernza is now a viable third food crop in their rotation. Growing Kernza saves time in the fields, and without herbicides or pesticides used, significantly reduces input costs.
"It's a big win for the quality of human health and our food supply, for farmers and their soil, for the critical conservation and protection of our waterways and habitat, and for the economic development that comes to the states where Arcola deploys this innovative solution".
"It fits the regenerative theme developing in this country. Perennial crops are here".
"Our mission to use the latest in regenerative agriculture innovation as a human health solution, and a planet health solution, allow us to make global impact starting at our home in the Midwest, where the Headwaters of the Mississippi River begin the journey to carry our solutions to the Gulf of Mexico. We seek to lead, to provide food supply and agriculture knowledge and information as our farming systems adapt for a healthier tomorrow. Public and climate health outcomes improve when we first address the most important part of health...The soil" ~ David Stennes, Founder
Through collaboration partnerships with our expanding network of enrolled farmers and growers, Arcola exists to create highly impactful positive changes to farmland soil health, the environment, vital fresh water supplies, and human and planet health, at scale.
Until recently, commercialization has been restricted by lack of sufficient supply, and the resulting high cost of the grain and milled flour.
Our forward-thinking work seeks to broaden the impact and reach of natural and regenerative agricultural practices, in an era where degraded farmland soil has global consequences.
Arcola is a leader in innovation and commercialization of the next generation of University researched and created perennial crops, that return each spring on their own without the need (and expense) of annually replanting them.
With full vertical integration, we coordinate the closed-loop sustainable farming and food supply chain, from the seed that's planted, to the crops that are harvested, to the products that are created. We are the conduit between growers and their crops, and the markets we serve.
From grower education to crop management and monitoring, from mobile custom harvesting to on-farm pickup of the harvest, our complete farm services bring a turn-key solution to expanding acres of what we see as the most important crop innovation in regenerative agriculture today.
"As food and beverage companies commit to using small blends of Kernza, the wholesome and delicious cereal grain is poised for wide adoption."
Cultivating better soil for superior food and a healthier planet for generations to come, Arcola is proud to be transforming the future of farming and food. To learn more, please visit www.Kernza.org, www.LandInstitute.org, and check out the current and future perennial crops being researched and commercialized at The University of Minnesota's Forever Green Initiative https://forevergreen.umn.edu/
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