Our strategy now is to collaborate with public institutions in order to direct more research in the direction of Natural Systems Agriculture. We operate a research center devoted to Natural Systems Agriculture and collaborate with scientists elsewhere who engage with us in such research.

Important questions have been answered and crucial principles explored to the point that we feel comfortable in saying that we have demonstrated the scientific feasibility of our proposal for a Natural Systems Agriculture. Because this work deals with basic biological questions and principles, the implications are applicable worldwide. Perennialization of several major crops and domestication of a few wild perennials characterize this new venture in the scientific world. Our vision will be fulfilled when grain-producing perennial mixtures substantially replace annual crops in farmers' fields. Soil erosion beyond replacement level ceases, an agriculture not dependant on fossil fuels and less dependant on alien chemicals will arise. Management techniques will encourage populations of beneficial insects to manage harmful insects. Soil-dwelling, soil-building creatures will return, soil quality will rebound to is natural potential to enhance its capacity to hold and manage water as well as the broad range of nutrients essential to life. All of this is more than imaginable for agriculture because prototype perennial grains are in our research plots and greenhouse, the foundation for such an agriculture.

When people, land, and community are as one,

all three members prosper;

when they relate not as members

but as competing interests,

all three are exploited.

By consulting Nature as the source

and measure of that membership,

The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture

that will save soil from being lost or poisoned

while promoting a community life at once

prosperous and enduring.