Ancient Grains: Growing Heritage Grains in Gardens and Small Farms

From bcfarmsandfood... - Farmer and seed saver, Dan Jason, talks about how to grow ancient grains in gardens and on small farms. Heritage grains and seeds like amaranth, quinoa, spelt, einkorn wheat, emmer wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, and flax are making a comeback. People are seeking them out for their flavor, nutrition, and low-gluten content.
Jason, author of the book, Awesome Ancient Grains & Seeds, has sought out, tested and preserved heirloom grains from around the world for over 30 years at his farm on Salt Spring Island.
In this video, Jason shows how, using simple threshing methods, small farms and gardeners can grow and eat these traditional grains fresh. Heritage grains and seeds are drought tolerant, low maintenance and have a low carbon footprint when grown sustainably on small plots.
Wheat Sensitivity, Grain Sensitivity
People with gluten sensitivities can sometimes tolerate old world grains like einkorn better than modern wheat. The rise of gluten sensitivity and celiac disease in recent decades coincides with the era of modern grain breeding and industrial processing methods. Jason discusses what he believes is the cause of the modern grain sensitivity.
Eating Old World Grains: Nutrition and Flavor
Heritage grains offer high nutrition, and are excellent staple foods. Ancient whole grains are rich in complex carbohydrates, protein, minerals, vitamins, essential fatty acids, antioxidants and fiber. They produce delicious breads with deep, nutty flavor.
Traditional grains, including emmer wheat (farro), can be cooked up whole like rice. Grain seeds of all kinds can also be sprouted and eaten raw.
Featured grains include:
Black einkorn wheat
Blue tinge Ethiopian wheat
Bronze amaranth
Burgundy amaranth
Emmer wheat
Excelsior barley
Golden flax
Khorasan wheat (kamut)
Multi-hued quinoa
Purple barley
Rodney oats
Rye
Sangatsuga barley
Utrecht blue wheat
White Australian wheat
White Sonora wheat
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[@marcusaurelius8966]

Super props to this farmer. What a great service he did for us seeking out and breeding such great varieties for small farmers. You can tell he knows what’s up with sustainable grain for sure.

[@jessicalouwman5337]

Fantastic video. I learned so much! Thank you for preserving these threads of knowledge.

[@paulbraga4460]

well then, thank you so very much to this gentleman - for safeguarding the variety of food...blessings to all

[@buckaroobonzai2909]

I wonder how many of these would make practically free food for egg-laying chickens by just outgrowing what the chickens are able to eat.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

Perhaps a few.

[@andrewgoodbody2121]

Three square feet per fortnight per bird!

[@bobsiddoway]

What a cool dude doing cool things. Respect. 🙏

[@petersieben8560]

Thank you for this treasurers video !

[@robinlillian9471]

Flax seed oil is very high in Omega 3, but goes rancid very quickly--so do the seeds once they are ground up.

[@FuerzaNaturalPan]

Great Video! I am trying to figure out the best way to combine wheat with amaranth and quinoa. Both can be cooked and added to the dough, or make flour and mix it with the wheat flour. I will keep trying. Cheers from Uruguay!

[@mariesan8463]

Thank you for showing about these wonderful healthy grains. Some grains are available in Niagara Falls but where can you get purple barley. I’m a vegetarian or almost a vegan. I never had any kind of meat or flesh except milk and butter. I love all kinds of healthy grains. Thank you for sharing.🙏🇨🇦😊

[@shriyaskuttyfarm]

This is great. Good to see.Give your valuable comments to improve our channel thank you. Stay connected and stay blessed

[@johnsmith-ch7fg]

Fab stuff! Quinoa isn't as tasty as Amaranth; the red and black quinoa have more flavour of course but I'm not surprised Amaranth hasn't caught on too much yet - the 'grains' are so small it doesn't easily replace rice and the flavour is a bit weird and duck-pondy at first so more of an acquired taste (i love it now). Apart from in malting/beer etc barley is really under used; true the gluten like proteins (hordenin) aren't as useful as wheat and rye but it can be made to work in many contexts. The roundup thing I think unlikely at this stage - Coeliac is more common than though but still only a tiny percentage - "gluten sensitivity" is complex - a fair number go gluten free in a fashionable way or mistakenly think it's healthier. Some have misdiagnosed themselves but it can be a particular prolamin that individuals are sensitive to so can eat spelt or barley or whatever. It's pretty easy to find organic grown modern wheat varieties to see if perceived sensitivity is actually roundup residues

[@ashe3854]

Very informative, thank you

[@TT3TT3]

Thanks!

[@bonnieherr8430]

Good info

[@robinlillian9471]

High Fructose Corn Syrup is also in most commercial bread & can give many people diarrhea and stomach upsets. It's called fructose malabsorption or dietary fructose intolerance. Most American physicians don't know what that is, but it is more well known in Europe.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Very nice video. So informative. Cheers!

[@rhb30001]

Great video!

[@kwetthaw]

Thank you for sharing.

[@lluuiiss3344]

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[@expatiate1]

I am allergic to the new week which has 47 chromosomes compared to the Ancient Grains which have about 23 and I know it's not round up since I only buy organic grain I'm allergic to the modern wheat many of us are

[@shernor8917]

Hi Mr Jason , I live in the Caribbean , Jamaica W.I. to be exact. I as a first-timer had watched your video about the grains. My husband would buy grains online because of his health issues . I am back in Jamaica now and is interested in planting my own grains naturally. How would I go about buying the grains you featured ? Can you share any information that will help in gaining more knowledge about this venture ? Thanks looking forward to your assistance.

[@ajrwilde14]

amazing

[@Warrior-In-the-Garden]

AIR COMPRESSOR!!!! That is genius!

[@ConsiderationFarm]

Can you tell me where to get the purple barley seed? Many thanks!

[@Rusty6450]

I only do container gardening and wonder if grains (I have Kamut) could produce enough for bread.

[@sablon3123]

can we buy some seeds?

[@FornoDan]

Yes please i need to grow everything you do!

[@eringrant8221]

I would love to buy some seeds from this farm, too!

[@russsherwood5978]

where can i order some of those seeds at? can they be imported to the u.s. ? thank you for the video, just subbed thumbs-up,, be blessed and safe

[@liahfox5840]

Which would make the best tasting bread, cold hardy, and able to produce on a small amount of land?

[@feltlikeitbydebs]

Thanks for sharing. I am very interested in growing some of the seeds and grains you shared. Do you know where l can get some outside of Canada. I'm in Australia. Debs

[@feltlikeitbydebs]

@@raticallife1320 I'm in WA. I will source some here. Thanks for offer.

[@AMPProf]

Ja know you can even turn the chaf an stalk into Weaving fiber!

[@gertmeijer6616]

@fred vanOlphen. You seem to be right about 2020, Do you have more insights?

[@francebissonnette3155]

does anyone know where I can get amaranth seed near Ottawa

[@cassandrayarnall4653]

I hope you've reconnected with the Ethiopian farmer that gave you the seed heads to profit share the grain revenue.

[@jc-rq8or]

Modern wheat based foods have lots of problems. The round up of course, their steel cut/ground which brings out more gluten, the instant/quick yeast it's often pared with, and it sits on a shelf for long periods of time after it's ground causing it to loose what nutritional value is left after the bran germ and endosperm have been separated.

[@robinlillian9471]

You could just put harvested grains in a tarp and hit them with a baseball bat. You can remove the chaff with a portable fan or leaf blower, too. Or you could just shift them from container to container on a windy day.

[@enzoselva888]

Hello! Is Winter Einkorn a different type of Einkorn? I'd like to plant some that I got, to go over winter (but my bag doesn't specify...). Is it winter just because you plant it in fall, or is it a different species altogether? THANK YOU for any help! ! !

[@Nathouuuutheone]

I've been looking for a grain I can grow in a really small patch, I'd like it to grow as short as possible to save vertical space, and ideally it'd be a type of rye (I just like it haha) Any tips?

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

Amaranth gets more hate than it deserves. If I had a maize field that had amaranth invasions that weren't declared weeds, I would sell u-pick amaranth options to locals, and pretend I intended to plant that all along. If you meet that Ethiopian farmer again, let him(?) know how well it did.

[@robertreznik9330]

Amaranth does not have 80% protein, more like 15%

[@TheHersey]

Good video up until the evidence lacking roundup comment

[@notbyingit3179]

TheHersey about grain, not round up, everyone knows how bad it is, your stupidity is showing WWG1WGA.

[@undereasy249]

Please understand how unreasonable your critique is. How could he have possibly expounded upon the mal effects of roundup on human health in a 6 minute video where the focus was on grains? I'm not going to do your research for you, however take into consideration the fact that earlier last year (2019), Monsanto was ordered to pay two-billion in damages as a result of roundup's cancer causing effect. Of course, this was only the 3rd time they lost in a court of law. Pesticides are poisons, and as such should be taken very seriously when human consumption is considered.

[@harrysollmer1644]

Bs