Heritage Wheats
The Heritage Grain Conservancy is a farmer-owned cooperative to collect, conserve and restore the diversity of world heritage grains. Our varieties are available in small amounts to multiply and restore. By purchasing our seeds, you agree to credit the Heritage Grain Conservancy as the sourcce of the seed, and to not patent or place intellectural property restrictions on the use of the seed and its progeny.
Grow a diversity of world landrace wheats. Plant heritage wheat seeds each 8" or more apart to allow room for their extensive roots to grow.
Black Winter Emmer
Black Winter Emmer thrives in drought or heavy rain. Fusarium resistant. Savored in soups, bulgar, breakfast cereal or flatbreads and pasta. Highly nutritous. 1 cup = 24g protein. Recipes $25 ~ 600 seeds |
Spring Red Fife Know as Halachanka in Galicia, Poland. In 1850 Canadian David Fife grew Halychanka,. It became known asRed Fife, soon the bakers' favorite from 1860 to the turn of the twentieth century. Sharon Rempel restored Fife, shared with Jennifer Scott, regaining popularity due to its rich flavor. $25 - 1 OUNCE |
Caucasus Rouge
Georgian Landrace Winter Wheat of exceptional beauty and fusarium resistance. Lower yielding but richer flavor! $25 ~ 600 seeds
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Hourani Biblical Wheat
Spring
This ancient wheat variety was discovered in the Masada Fortress by Yigal Yadin, translator of the Dead Sea Scroll, stored 2,000 years ago by King Herod. This is the wheat eaten by ancient Israelis but today is almost extinct. Collected by Nikolai Vavilov in 1926. and by Eli Rogosa in 2008, Wadi Fukin. Help us restore this history-rich robust spring wheat. Thrives in heat and drought conditions.
Hourani - ancient biblical wheat eaten 2000 years ago in Jerusalem
$25 - 1 oz
collected by Eli in Wadi Fukin near Bethlehem
Banatka Vavilov reported: 'Winter Banatka is reknowned for excellent baking quality and wide adaptability'
 * Rogosa cross of Banatka x Bankuti $25 - 1 oz |
Rouge de Bordeaux winter wheat beloved by French artisan bakers, rich flavor
$25 - 1/ oz
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Bezbanatskaja high yield, delicious winter landrace
for hearty peasant breads $25 - 1 oz
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Traditional farmers grow mixtures. This allows nature and farmers to co-evolve a locally-adapted landrace. Current research confirms that wheat mixtures tend to yield higher and have richer, complex flavor. Plant each seed 12" apart in deep-dug well-fertilized soil. Plant a low-growing clover or spread mulch between wheats to suppress spring weeds. Heritage wheats are at least twice as tall with a larger root system than modern wheats. Save the seeds from the robust plants that best thrive in your unique soil and micro-climate. Plant a resilient wheat polyculture that can better adapt to your unique fields and local weather. Exchange seed with your neighbors to build a community wheat supply.
'Looking at the field of ripening grain, Vavilov realized it was not a uniform wheat cultivar, but a panoply of intermixed strains of grain that formed a resilient polyculture. It was necessary to collect hundreds of seedheads for a representative sample of the vast biodiversity in a single field...The traditional farmers' methods of crop selection enhance landrace wheats' biodiversity; Their criteria of complex traits include: flavor, texture, health, maturation and more.' Where Our Food Comes From. Gary Nabhan p. 139
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Ancient Grain Posters
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