Forever Green hosts weekly lab meetings, otherwise known as FGI Fridays, during the academic year on Fridays, 12-1:30 PM CT. You can register to attend virtually or watch the recordings below! View the schedule for a list of dates and topics.
2026-2027 Lab Meetings
- FGI Intro and Town Hall (10.9.2026)
- UMN Extension Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships (10.23.2026)
- Career Pathways: Undergraduate and Graduate Interdisciplinary Research (10.30.2026)
- Pennycress: Breeding and Trait Discovery (11.6.2026)
- Pennycress: Seed Improvement (11.13.2026)
- Pennycress: Agronomy and End Uses (11.20.2026)
- Perennial Flax: Non-shattering with Style! (12.4.2026)
- Perennial Cereals: Cereal Rye, Wheat, Oats (12.11.2026)
- Winter Barley (12.18.2026)
- Hard Fescue Seed and Perennial Chickpea (1.22.2027)
- Silflower (1.29.2027)
- Hazelnuts: Breeding and Propagation (2.5.2027)
- Hazelnuts: Go-First Farms and Commercialization (2.12.2027)
- Social Science: Economic and social aspects and outcomes of developing and scaling CLC crops: Hazelnuts, Camelina, Kernza (2.19.2027)
- Camelina: UMN Breeding Update (2.26.2027)
- Camelina: Social Science and 1MASS (3.5.2027)
- Camelina: Agronomy and Food Science (3.19.2027)
- Kernza: Breeding and Agronomy (3.26.2027)
- Kernza: Landscape Scale Ecosystem Benefits (4.2.2027)
- Kernza: Food Science (4.9.2027)
- Kernza: Social Science and Grower Perspectives (4.23.2027)
- Alfalfa (4.30.2027)
- Winter Pea (5.7.2027)
- Fall Seeding Study: Kernza, Winter Barley, Winter Pea, and Silflower (5.14.2027)
2025-2026 Lab Meetings
- FGI Intro & Update (9.19.25)
- Protein, Fat, & Flavor: Camelina, Pennycress, & Pea (9.26.25)
- Nitrogen-Fixing Endophyte Bacteria with Pennycress (10.3.25)
- Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships (10.10.25)
- Kernza Snacks, Meat Analogues, & Sake (10.24.25)
- Social Sustainability of Kernza (10.31.25)
- Fungal Fermentation | Kernza Environmental Impact (11.7.25)
- Commercialization, Markets, & Farmer Adoption (11.14.25)
- Soil Carbon & Greenhouse Gas Emissions (11.21.25)
- Winter Durum | Kernza & Gut Health (12.5.25)
- Perennial Cereals | The Land Institute: Perennial Grain (1.30.26)
- Perennial Sunflower | The Land Institute: Perennial Sorghum & Sainfoin (2.6.26)
- Winter Barley (2.13.26)
- Hazelnuts (2.20.26)
- Silflower (2.27.26)
- Winter Oilseed/Soybean Cropping Systems (3.6.26)
- Winter Camelina (3.20.26)
- Alfalfa as Human Protein (3.27.26)
- Kernza & Fertilization (4.3.26)
- Hard Fescue | Winter/Spring Pea (4.10.26)
- Pennycress and Soybean Cyst Nematode (4.24.26)
- Optimizing Farmer Peer Networks | Update From the Savanna Institute (5.8.26)