Restoring Heritage Wheat Seminar in Unity, Maine

June 22, 11 AM - 7 PM, Location: MOFGA, Unity, Maine

Poster, Information and Registration: growseed.org/landrace.pdf

Join us to discover little-known landrace biodiversity and share practical skills for restoring landrace grains. 

Landrace wheats evolved for millennia in low-input fields, before the Green Revolution cultivars were bred with dependence of agrochemicals. Today’s organic farmers and gardeners are seeking the old wheats with richer flavor, and greater potential for adaptability to organic systems, but lack training in on-farm selection. Consumers seek richer flavor and safer gluten*. Participants will receive elite landrace seeds, that yield higher in organic soil than modern wheat, but are not yet commercially available. The seeds were selected by the Heritage Grain Conservancy, the outcome of three years of on-farm organic trials funded by SARE. List: growseed.org/catalogue1.pdf

Schedule 10:30 Registration
11:00 Will Bonsall - Small-Scale Grain Growing Basics - Pre-Seminar Intro
12:00 Brown Bag Lunch
12:30 Glenn Roberts - Why Restore Landrace Wheat <ansonmills.com>
12:45 Dr. Tom Payne - On-Farm Conservation of Wheat Biodiversity <cimmyt.org>
2:00 Gary Nabhan - Restoring Landrace Wheat
3:00 Round-Table - Strategies for In-Situ Conservation and On-Farm Trials of Landrace Wheat
4:00 Ellen Mallory, NE Bread Project <sites.google.com/site/localbreadwheatproject>
4:20 Mark Fulford - Building Living Soil <teltanefarm.com>
4:40 Eli Rogosa - Evolving Landraces in Organic Systems <growseed.org>
5:00 Team Goals, Roles and Responsibilities
5:30 Potluck Dinner - Bring your Home-Baked Breads to share!

For further information contact Eli Rogosa: growseed.org*  

Presence of celiac disease epitopes in modern and old hexaploid wheat varieties: wheat breeding may have contributed to increased prevalence of celiac disease* Hetty C. van den Broeck · Hein C. de Jong · Elma M. J. Salentijn · Liesbeth Dekking · Dirk Bosch · Rob J. Hamer · Ludovicus J. W. J. Gilissen · Ingrid M. van der Meer · Marinus J. M. Smulders http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2963738/pdf/122_2010_Article_1408.pdf