{"id":25129,"date":"2025-07-22T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=25129"},"modified":"2025-07-08T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:46:52","slug":"perennial-vegetables-as-a-climate-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/22\/perennial-vegetables-as-a-climate-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Perennial Vegetables as a Climate Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25130\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scarlett-runner-beans-from-gettyimages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25130\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/scarlett-runner-beans-from-gettyimages.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">scarlett runner beans from gettyimages<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the latest issue of <em>Vegan Journal<\/em>, VRG Researcher Jeanne Yacoubou, MS, explains how growing perennial vegetables can serve as a climate solution. According to Jeanne, \u201cAll plants do not sequester carbon equally. Perennial plants \u2013 those that regrow each year instead of dying off after the first frost \u2013 sequester carbon longer than annual plants because their ability to store carbon is longer in roots that continually grow deeper and wider for years if not decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read her complete article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2025issue2\/2025_issue2_climate_solutions.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2025issue2\/2025_issue2_climate_solutions.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> in the USA only, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\">www.vrg.org\/member<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest issue of Vegan Journal, VRG Researcher Jeanne Yacoubou, MS, explains how growing perennial vegetables can serve as a climate solution. According to Jeanne, \u201cAll plants do not sequester carbon equally. Perennial plants \u2013 those that regrow each year instead of dying off after the first frost \u2013 sequester carbon longer than annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25131,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25129\/revisions\/25131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}