Comments on: Sustainable Grains http://sustainablesmallholding.org Permaculture, and Sustainable practices on a Lincolnshire Smallholding Sun, 05 Feb 2017 15:17:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.11 By: Alison http://sustainablesmallholding.org/sustainable-grains/#comment-228259 Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:31:40 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-228259 Hi Jonny, I only got a notication of your comment today -sorry for the delayed reply. Oikos seem to have perennial wheat here http://oikostreecrops.com/products/perennial-wheat/?search=perennial%20wheat. Just plants atm but I should think they’ll have grain again after harvest. I seem to have seed forming on my square metre of plants OK so far as I can tell. I’ll be happy to send out small quantities to people later in the year (but will ask for postage costs via some convenient method). Sorry don’t know about rye – Seed Savers Exchange in the US is listing two varieties https://exchange.seedsavers.org/catalog/results.aspx but I couldn’t work out if their swaps are available to us here. Alison

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By: Deano Martin http://sustainablesmallholding.org/sustainable-grains/#comment-228249 Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:44:21 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-228249 Hi Sam
I should be able to send you some of mine, however your climate is wetter than mine and you may find that you have problems with ergot. I only have a small amount of rye this year to keep my seed fresh, but there should be enough. Give me a shout in early August.
Deano

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By: Sam http://sustainablesmallholding.org/sustainable-grains/#comment-222876 Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:52:07 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-222876 Hi Deano,

I have recently discovered your blog and it is hugely helpful as we develop a 1/3 acre corner of a field into a productive market garden running alongside a restaurant in Bristol called Birch. I have been thinking more and more about grains as I have no access to locally grown food grains for the restaurant. This spring I sowed several heritage varieties of wheat, barley and oats, some of which are doing very well on our heavy clay soil and others not so well! I am looking for some long straw cereal rye which will perform well on clay soil and be very tasty, do you either have some which you would sell or know a good source of some? So far I have got seed from the JIC but they do not carry Rye in their collections. The plan for the short term is to grow small quantities of cereals in rotation with green manures and beans/grain legumes, and perhaps one day find more land….
Any help/advice welcome.

Cheers,

Sam Leach

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By: jonny reid http://sustainablesmallholding.org/sustainable-grains/#comment-219001 Fri, 22 May 2015 09:19:05 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-219001 hi alison, ive been trying to track down perennial grain seed for a looong time! cant get tim peters rye seed from u.s. because of aggravating seed import restrictions – i looked at the oikos website but it didnt mention anything about perennial? please could you advise me?
best regards, jonny.

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By: Deano Martin http://sustainablesmallholding.org/sustainable-grains/#comment-213370 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:28:12 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?page_id=2745#comment-213370 Really sorry for the delay Mark
The proso millet came closest to giving seed. If it had been planted earlier I think that it would have yielded. same with the sorghum. Big strong plants, flowered, but no seed produced.
Can’t recommend varieties. Proso millet and sorghum can be got from a few of the American seed companies. Try adaptive seeds, bakers creek, salt spring seeds, or John Scherk. A quick search should find them.

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