Western Massachusetts Grains, Grown in Long Term Organic Rotation

Monday, October 18, 2010

Eat our grain at Hungry Ghost Bakery!



For the past few months we have been selling wheat to Hungry Ghost Bakery in Northampton, home of the famous "Little Red Hen" project. They are a great community establishment and bake really delicious sourdough breads daily in their wood fired oven (pic above!).  They are now baking up a "locavore loaf" every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, as well as flat breads on Saturday and Monday,  often made with our wheat (ask!) Check out their website: http://www.hungryghostbread.com/

Monday, October 11, 2010

Heirloom wheat multiplication project

We hand planted a 1/4 acre of a heirloom variety of wheat called Banatka, as part of a SARE funded project headed by Eli Rogosa and the Heritage Wheat Conservancy. We are excited to take part in this important work of multiplying these old wheats, that in many cases exist only in very small amounts. Planting by hand was quite a way to plant a wheat field in contrast to the house-sized combines and planters in the mid west! For more information about the conservancy visit: www.growseed.org