GRAINS

Growing grain may seem a bit out of reach for home gardeners and even medium scale growers in our cold climate, but with the right soil preparation, techniques and tools, even a twenty-by-fifty-foot garden plot can grow grain if you select the right varieties of wheat, oats, millet and other grains, that we usually buy in the form of meal or flour. Read the full article HERE.

For people living in Northern Europe, particularly in colder areas where wheat is hard to grow, such as the steppes in northern Russia, a traditional grain substitute (the seed of an edible plant related to sorrel) is the plant we know as buckwheat. Often referred to as a “pseudocereal” because the way it can be used is similar to true cereals, because the dried seeds can be ground to make a nutritious flour, buckwheat is also valuable as a nitrogen fixing cover crop while it