The Oldest American Wheat is Coming Back | PARAGRAPHIC

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Hayden Flour Mills is reviving forgotten native grains from the ground up in the desert.

Heritage Grains are grains that were grown before the introduction of intensive, scientific plant breeding in the mid 1900s, while Ancient Grains date back to almost 10,000 years ago. Both are rich in flavor and dense in nutrients unlike the modern over-processed wheats we’ve become accustomed to.

White Sonora is the oldest wheat variety in North America. Spanish missionaries, who needed wheat for their communion bread, brought White Sonora to North America around 1640. This disease-resistant, drought-tolerant wheat variety was first planted as a rotation crop to corn in the Sonoran Desert, near the present-day United States-Mexico border. It’s sweet flavor and nutty texture lent itself to a traditional southwestern diet, and eventually gave birth to the first white flour tortilla.

Stone milling is an old world process where the whole grain is crushed into flour by rotating stones. Unlike modern roller mills that tend to shave off and discard the flavor and nutrients found in whole grains, the process of stone milling in small batches preserves the natural oils and nutrients of the grain, creating a more flavorful, nutrient-dense product.

These hand-cultivated flours are never bleached or enriched, and always freshly milled.

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AWESOME video on a much tabooed grain in certain health guru circles! Many 'thank yous ' to the Zimmerman family, Hayden Flour Mills and PARAGRAPHIC for doing this video! Cheers...

ross
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Amazing. Thank you. I have discovered kamut which i use for my sourdough along with spelt and rye. I would love to grow my own. Keep on keeping on. 😊

beverlyholborow
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Very pleased to hear about this. So important to have localised types of grain and other crops...the industrialization of food protection has forgotten to work with, rather than against, nature

charshill
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trying to save the world from chaos that's on its way
great approach
keep it up team paragraphic

Asim-cqsm
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I’m curious about the water usage situation for Hayden. Many farmers in Utah and Arizona are in a fairly untenable situation because so many folks are forced to grow crops that aren’t meant to be grown in desert environments just to provide for their families. Alfalfa is the common culprit here, and consumes something like 80% of the water in our states, and I’d be interested to hear if ancient grains are a better alternative or if they carry the same downsides.

BenjaminIMeszaros
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I absolutely love this! looking forward to picking some up for our baking operation and getting involved somehow!! keep up the strong work!!

yoniudkoff
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the modern wheat variety has to much gluten, and it is heavily sprayed with round up, even just before harvest. This will kill our gut biome and cause health problems that way also. We need this ancient and heritage grains back, i would love to eat bread again once in a while.

truthonly
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Another great video team. Welcome to the family!!

togetherwegrow
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Fascinating, exciting - the way to go! Thank you!

ingridheller
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I’ve grown the Sonora white wheat in northern mn, as a spring wheat, it needs a dry climate, due to several types of stem and leaf rust. Again context a principle of regenerative agriculture production

craiglaplante
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It doesn't really delve deep into the downside and upside. Like yields, water usage, crop rotation needed, nutrient profile, pesticide usage, flavour, how it's different in baking, seed costs, seed collection by hand or machine, if it's better or worse for pollinators and so on, could have been more explored with figures and just more information...

zeroheroes
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If we buy whole wheat berries, can we plant some of those to grow our own? We are Zone 6 where I live. Will wheat grow here?

SuperBoppy
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Love it, keep up the great work ♥ I'm going to spread the word and buy some to make some bread :)

DogeGFSolo
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I love this video, what an interesting thing.

dasbrilliant
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This is red wheat smuggled from Türkiye, from Anatolia, to America...

atlashansencerrr
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I would like to watch this but I can't deal with your so-called music that is in the background.

c.joelummus
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sorry but potatoes and tomatoes originated in the americas

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