Grains

Beautiful plant with multiple uses. From tasty microgreens to a good salad green or spinach substitute. Dark red leaves and trailing fuchsia blooms...

Tall plants with velvety leaves and tubular soft-pink flowers. Each flower develops into a single pod, which when mature and dry are filled with go...

Camelina sativa - An ancient oilseed from northern Europe, very well suited to growing in the Maritimes. Extremely easy to grow, they can be direct...

Brassica nigra - A distinct species from other mustards, this type is grown mainly for their pungent seeds. Cultivated for many millennia and used ...

Setaria italica - Four foot tall grass with dense, heavy reddish brown seed heads. This staple crop can be easily harvested and threshed by hand.  ...

Beautiful red flower heads loaded with white seeds. Excellent variety for grain production. Heirloom from Opopeo, Mexico.-Grown by Yonder Hill Farm

Eragrostis tef - The smallest cereal grain. Traditionally grown in East Africa, especially Ethiopia where it's fermented into injera flatbread. Ext...

Eleusine coracana - aka Finger Millet, Ragi Millet. One of the most unique grains I’ve grown, the seed heads really do look like dragon claws. They...

Sorghum bicolor - Tall stalks which resemble corn, topped with heads of strikingly black grains. The whole plant is black-tinged; leaves, stalks an...

Setaria italica - Rare and historic variety from northern Japan. Although all millet is in fact gluten-free, this foxtail-type is considered a ‘glu...

New for 2024 - Sorghum bicolor - Compact dwarf sorghum, with stalks about 4’ tall (compared to 8’ for most of our other sorghum varieties). The lar...

Chenopodium nuttalliae - (Wa-zont-lay) This ancient crop was one of the most important grains grown by the Aztecs, alongside Amaranth, Corn and Chi...

Fagopyrum tataricum - A diverse landrace of tartary buckwheat. The seeds are more pointy and variable in shape compared to our 'regular' Tartary Bu...

(Panicum miliaceum) Red-tinged plants with brown seeds. The plants bear loads of loose heads, not all at once but in sequence over several months. ...

Panicum miliaceum - Shiny silvery seeds popular with the bird crowd. An easy to grow and harvest seed that can supplement a feed supply or leave to...