Our local rice is wheat

[michael hollihn]

OK all you 100 mile dieters. One 4'x50' garden bed can reap 10lbs of grain. If you are after flour you might have to lease an acre or two, but if you want to eat a grain in its most healful state, try eating it like rice. Dan Jason is a farmer extraordinaire on SaltSpring Island. He is famous for his garlic varietals and beans and now tomatoes, but he also has over 66 different cultivars of wheat, barley and oats for this very purpose. He says just as grain cultivars were selected over the years to produce great flour, so can they be selected to produce good 'berries', the whole plump nutritious grain that we can eat whole like rice. These grains can also be sprouted and eaten or sprouted and juiced (as grass) for those healing from illness and wanting serious health. Here is a link to his article on how to grow grains and how to cook and eat them.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:8GKBN0XPp_8J:www.cog.ca/documents/GrainintheGardenWI07.pdf+growing+grain+dan+jason&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=firefox-a