INDIA JAMMU

India-Jammu is classified as a common wheat (Triticum aestivum ssp aestivum). It is a landrace from Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is an awnless spring wheat and has a pale golden (white) seed color. The grains are hard enough to be graded as “hard white wheat”. The gluten is strong and typical of good artisan breadmaking hard red wheat cultivars, when the grain protein is 12% or more. It produces a whole wheat flour with unobtrusive ...   Read More

Durum Wheat

Durum-Iraq is a durum wheat. It is a landrace from Iraq. It is a spring type and has long black awns and pale yellow seed color. It grows well in the Sacramento Valley and offers the possibility of a supply for whole wheat pasta makers as well as bakers who know how to make pleasing whole durum wheat breads, pizza, rotis and Mediterranean flat breads. The whole wheat dough does not darken on standing. 

 

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ETHIOPIAN BLUE TINGE Wheat

Ethiopian Blue Tinge is an Abyssinian type of emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccum). It is a cultivar selected in Ethiopia by Dan Jason (Salt Spring Seeds, BC, Canada). It threshes easily when combine harvested (most emmer wheat does not thresh out of the husk during combine harvesting). It is a very long awned spring type and has an intriguing dark purple brown seed color. It has a tea like aroma and is fairly prolific. The bran color and flavor are due to the antioxidant polyphenolic compounds in the bran. In the whole wheat form, it probably ranks among the highest in healthful antioxidant capacit...   Read More

Sonora Wheat

Sonora Wheat is one of the oldest surviving wheat varieties anywhere in North America. Predating the introductions of Red Fife and Turkish Red wheat 

 

Sonora is a common wheat (Triticum aestivum ssp aestivum). In New Mexico it has been continuously grown by Native Americans since its introduction, and is known as “White Sonora wheat”. Sonora was grown in California continuously until about 1960, and was revived again from USDA seed stock from Durango in Mexico, beginning in the 1990s. Sonora whe...   Read More