TRADITIONAL FOOD + FUTURE FARMS

At our Kansas Constellate of Future Food, Jump!Star, in collaboration with Harvester Arts and WSU, explored traditions of food and farming in Kansas, and imagined new traditions of cooking and growing.

• Jump!Star’s climatologist Sonali McDermid presented the history of industrial agriculture and projected models for future farming.

• Fred Iutzi from the Land Institute of Salina, KS, discussed perennial polyculture and sustainability.

• We continued our conversations around sustainability by learning about and sampling cricket flour-based snacks and other alternative proteins.

• We explored local food traditions by asking community members to bring a dish from their family cookbook to a potluck and held a discussion of how food connects us to the past and to the future.

• Participants worked with local restaurateurs to invent future-traditional recipes using sustainable future ingredients, including possible grain alternatives like Kernza and cricket flour.