Item Tag: Triticum

EINKORN WHEAT SEEDS, 300 Seeds, Triticum monococcum, Ancient Grain, Organic, easy to grow, Grow in your home garden, for flour.Grown By: Ravenwood Farm ShopShipped with tracking – Often Hard To Find, We are offering the seeds so that this wonderful wheat may be multiplied, spread around – please take the seeds grow them and then save some of the seed crop to share and multiply. Spring wheat Crop. Plant in the Fall. Ancient EinkornNature’s Original WheatEinkorn, the world’s most ancient wheat, and the only wheat that’s never been hybridized. Einkorn is a delicious, healthy alternative to modern, mass market wheat and can be an excellent solution for those with gluten sensitivity. Einkorn was one of the first foods planted, at the birth of agriculture 10,000 years ago. It grew wild for millions of years before that. Einkorn is packed with more nutrients, vitamins, and dietary minerals than regular wheat. Einkorn has 40% more protein and 15% less starch than commercial wheat, plus abundant B Vitamins and trace minerals like iron. Discover the ancient grain with tremendous flavor that is a true gift for many who suffer from gluten sensitivity. The only wheat in existence that has never been hybridized or modified, einkorn grew thousands of years ago in the Fertile Crescent. An alternative grain for gluten sensitivity. Einkorn has remained unaltered for thousands of years, for people who suffered from mood swings, asthma, and digestive problems—to eat wheat without symptoms. Are there other names for Einkorn? Yes, because of it’s ancient origins, einkorn is known by many names across the world: Triticum monococcum (Latin, scientific name), einkorn (German), small spelt (Italian), farro piccolo (Italian), engrain (French), Le petit épautre (French), tiphe (Greek), siyez (Turkish), and sifon (Hebrew). Learn more about the other names for einkorn here.DESCRIPTION :We have been growing this ancient wheat for years in our research garden. This rare, high-protein wheat (18.3% in our test) has two seed rows to each seed head, with many seed heads per plant (up to 90 with wider spacings). Reportedly cultivated 7,500-12,000 years ago. Difficult to hull. More nutritious than modern wheats. Spring-planted, 2.5-3 feet tall. Very rare. BOTANICAL NAME : Triticum monococcum (aka Einkorn hornemannii) DAYS TO MATURITY : 112-140 days SEEDS PER PACKET: 25 seeds, 4 square feet GERMINATION DAYS: 3-7 WHEN TO PLANT: early spring PLANTING DEPTH: 1-1.5″ GROWING INSTRUCTIONS: Start in flats as soon as ground can be worked. Here in zone 6, that is in February, 3 months before our last frost date. In cold region it may be much later, but start as early as you can. Transplant 5″ apart when 2-3″ high. Can also be broadcast when soil temps reach 40 degrees. Cease watering when 85% of the seed heads are golden and harvest when almost all are. Dry fully before storing. Matures in about 100-125 days. GROW BIOINTENSIVE® CULTURAL INFO: C/Matures 16-20/Harvest 0-4/Yield 4-26 grain, 12-72 dry biomass/Spacing 5″ We do recommend as a best practice that you grind your own flour. Flour that is ground and not quickly used oxidizes and quickly loses many of its most valuable nutrients. We recommend that you grind your own flour and try to always use the flour quickly after grinding. Do you recommend any specific wheat grinders for making einkorn flour? Einkorn berries can be ground into flour with almost any counter top mill. We recommend using a stone or ceramic mill wherever possible but a quality steel mill will also work just fine.Einkorn grows natively in a hull that does not separate from the kernel during harvest. To prepare einkorn for food, we use a dehulling process to remove the hull from the kernel. The result is einkorn berries ready to be ground into flour and used for baking. This makes einkorn very unique among varieties of wheat. Experts say the hull protects the kernel from disease and rot. As a result of this dehulling process, however, some of the berries do not sprout as well as they would if they had been left in the hull. How many cups of flour does 1 cup of einkorn berries make? One cup of einkorn wheat berries will make about 1.5 cups of flour, depending on how finely you grind your flour.