Grains

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

aka; Khorasan Wheat, Long Grain Polish Wheat. Tall plants with plump seed heads. Extra large golden brown kernels, twice the size of regular wheat....

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

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

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

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. ...

The famed heirloom bread wheat. Tall plants with plump heads of red kernel. Named after David Fife, a farmer near Peterborough, ON who in 1840 was ...

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...

New for 2025 - Sorghum bicolor - Broomcorn is a type of sorghum selected to have extra long panicle stalks for crafting into traditional brooms. On...

New for 2025 - Along with Idaho Amber, we were very pleased with our syrup sorghum experiments last year! This one is a dual-purpose grain and syru...

New for 2025 - Linum usitatissimum - The kind you want for linen and traditional fibre art. Tall plants produce long sturdy fibres. At 3' they're t...

New for 2025 - Extra early maturing upland rice. We harvested ours mid-September, about 100 days after transplanting. Other varieties we grow are a...

New for 2025 - Fagopyrum esculentum - Stunning ruby blossomed buckwheat, a cultivar of Common Buckwheat. Fast growing up to 4' tall. All types of b...

New for 2025 - Remarkably early dwarf flint corn. Grown for centuries by the Mi'kmaq of the Gaspé Peninsula. The plants only reach a height of 2 to...

New for 2025 - Both hulless and awnless. Faust is a very productive 6-row barley. Tall stalks with multiple tillers per plant. Easy to thresh by ha...