Grains

New for 2022- Short grain upland variety from Poland. Heavy yielding and very early, this was the earliest of the three rice varieties we grew out ...

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...

I'm happy to have discovered sesame these past few years. These are beautiful and easy to care for plants, growing up to 3-4' tall in ideal condit...

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...

Grow your own mustard! This is the kind for condiments and pickling, as opposed to leaf mustards. Very easy to grow in our climate; sow in early sp...

Very easy to grow, and a beautiful addition to the garden. Golden Flax reaches about 24” tall by early summer, and blooms with the most delicate of...

The earliest maturing sorghum I’ve ever grown. Originally hailing from Inner Mongolia, they're well adapted for much of Canada. Plump, reddish seed...

New for 2022 - Early maturing short grain variety from Hokkaido. Considered a lowland rice (preferring paddy cultivation), they grew fine for us in...

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

New for 2022 - Amaranthus cruentus - Bronze spire blooms atop sturdy plants that reach for the sky. They are as at home in a flower garden or a veg...

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

Fagopyrum esculentum - A gluten-free grain, fast growing cover crop and amazing nectar source for bees. Very easy to grow, sow late spring for a gr...

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

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

I've been experimenting with different varieties of sorghum for a few years now, and for many seasons Mennonite was my favourite. After discovering...

New for 2022 - From Karnataka, South India. This sorghum really impressed me last season. Heavy yielding. I’d say they’re almost as early as Ba-Ye-...

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...

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...

A productive gluten free grain, suited for small scale growing and processing. Foxtail millet is a warm season grain, best planted after the last f...

Fagopyrum tataricum - A traditional grain and cover crop. Closely related to common buckwheat, tartary buckwheat is daintier in appearance with...

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

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

New for 2022 - Four foot tall grass with dense, heavy reddish brown seed heads. This staple crop can be easily harvested and threshed by hand.  An ...

The smallest cereal grain. Traditionally grown in East Africa, especially Ethiopia where it's fermented into injera flatbread. We began growing it ...

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

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...

New for 2022 - Rare and historic variety from northern Japan. Although in fact gluten-free, this foxtail-type is considered a ‘glutenous millet’ fo...

(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. ...