growing grains

[!potatoes!]

this year:

sorghum - tarahumara popping (like it says, for popping, not flour)
rice - for the first time, trying a central american 'upland' variety - which doesn't need flooding, or, apparently, even need it very wet.
also trying, for the first time, teff. thought the seedlings got taken out by slugs earlier, but they seem to be coming back...whether they've been set back enough to keep me from getting a yield, I don't know.


my wife is allergic to gluten (not quite celiac disease, but not far off), so we've never messed with any of those; wheat, barley, spelt, rye, etc.

[soil]

so ive been collecting grains still for some decent trials this winter/spring.

just got

black emmer wheat
einkorn wheat
durum wheat
and two more kinds of hard red winter wheat

and also a hull-less barley that is supposed to be excellent for barley risotto.