Grains

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

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

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...

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

New for 2023 - The famed heirloom bread wheat. Tall plants with plump heads of red kernel. Named after David Fife, a farmer near Peterborough, ON w...

(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. ...

Hardy and early maturing short-grain rice originally from Russia. An upland rice variety which doesn’t need flooding, and grows just fine in regula...

New for 2023 - From legendary 19th century horticulturalist Luther Burbank. Beautiful darkly tinged plants with black kernels. 6-row type. 140+ see...

New for 2023 - Brassica nigra - This type is grown mainly for their pungent seeds. Cultivated for many millennia and used as a spice and condiment ...

New for 2023 - A beautiful plant with multiple uses. From tasty microgreens to a good salad green or spinach substitute. Dark red leaves and traili...

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

New for 2023 - Tall plants with velvety leaves and tubular soft-pink flowers. Each flower develops into a single pod, which when mature and dry are...

New for 2023 - 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 cou...

New for 2023 - aka; Khorasan Wheat, Long Grain Polish Wheat. Tall plants with plump seed heads. Extra large golden brown kernels, twice the size of...

New for 2023 - Sorghum bicolor - Tall stalks which resemble corn, topped with heads of strikingly black grains. The whole plant is black-tinged; le...

New for 2023 - Fagopyrum tataricum - A diverse landrace of tartary buckwheat. The seeds are more pointy and variable in shape compared to our 'regu...

New for 2023 - Panicum miliaceum - Shiny silvery seeds popular with the bird crowd. An easy to grow and harvest seed that can supplement a feed sup...