Grains

Short grain upland variety from Poland. Heavy yielding and very early. On average the earliest of the three rice varieties we're currently growing....

Both beautiful and edible! This is a poppy selected for eating, with huge seed heads that hold their seeds without shattering. The large (relativel...

Selected in Maine by Will Bonsall for large edible seeds. This is the one you want for eating! These plants are a consistent size at around 5-6 fee...

Sinapis alba - Grow your own mustard! This is the kind for condiments and pickling. Very easy to grow in our climate; sow in early spring, for earl...

I'm happy to have discovered sesame these past few years. Beautiful and easy to care for plants, growing up to 3-4' tall in ideal conditions. By A...

Sorghum bicolor - Originally hailing from Inner Mongolia. This is one of the earliest sorghum varieties we've encountered yet. They reliably ripen ...

Early maturing short grain variety from Hokkaido. Considered a lowland rice (preferring paddy cultivation), however they grow fine for us in regula...

Hardy and diverse multi-colour flint corn, with kernels in shades of red, maroon, slate-blue and white. One of the very best varieties for grain p...

Although a native North American crop, much work has been done in eastern Europe and Russia to breed black oilseed sunflowers for an alternativ...

Sorghum bicolor - I've been experimenting with different varieties of sorghum for some years now, and for many seasons Mennonite was my favourite. ...

Amaranthus cruentus - Bronze spire blooms atop sturdy plants that reach for the sky. They are as at home in a flower garden or a vegetable garden. ...

Setaria italica - Foxtail-type millet. Sturdy stalks about 3' tall, topped with long drooping seed heads. Makes a beautiful textured addition to cu...

Early maturing short-grain rice originally from Russia. An upland rice variety which doesn’t need flooding, and grows just fine in regular garden s...

An ornamental amaranth, with huge knobby trunk-like seed heads filled with black seeds. They started more conversations than just about any other p...

Tall plants, with large golden brown heads full of light seeds. Hard to beat this variety for grain production. The green leaves are delicious when...

The earliest maturing sorghum I’ve yet encountered. Ba-Ye-Qi was for years our earliest variety, but this one has them beat by a couple weeks. We t...

Setaria italica - Foxtail millet is a warm season grain, best planted after the last frost of spring. Easy to grow and thrives in poor soil; we've ...

Fagopyrum tataricum - aka: Himalayan Tartary. Distinct species from common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum), tartary plants are more delicate in ap...

Sorghum bicolor - Heavy yielding and early, they've had no trouble maturing in our NS climate. An excellent variety for popping! And equally good f...

Traditional flint corn from Northern Italy, selected for hundreds of years by farmers of the Sugana Valley for making polenta. Also a great variety...

A multi-purpose field corn well adapted to northern climates. Selected in Vermont by organic grain expert Jack Lazor. It has great geneti...

Beautiful plant with multiple uses. From tasty micro-greens to a good salad green or spinach substitute. Dark red leaves and trailing fuchsia bloom...

A mixture with at least three different phenotypes. Golden and crimson flower heads, some more upright and some drooping. 5-8' tall plants. The (mo...

A famous Canadian heirloom wheat, developed by breeder Charles Saunders around 1900. A direct descendant of Red Fife, Marquis was the most widely g...