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What are heritage grains?

"Heritage grains" are traditional varieties of grains.

They were grown and passed down before scientists started heavily changing them in what's called the "GREEN REVOLUTION" from the early 20th century to the late 1980s.

These grains are sometimes called "ancient grains" or „Urkorn (in German),“ but that's not entirely accurate. They're not ancient, but they haven't been altered by breeding or genetic modification in order to create larger harvests or optimised for a usage with fertilisers, herbicides or pesticides.

For example:

WHEAT ( Tritium aestivum L.) e.g Rotkornweizen , Gelbmehlweizen

SPELT (Triticum aestivum spelta）e.g Oberkulmer Rotkorn

EMMER (Triticum dioccum)

EINKORN (Tritium monococcum)

KHORASAN (also known as Kamut) (Triticum turgidum)

along with 

RYE,  (Secale cereale) e.g Waldstaudenroggen (Secale multicaule)(forest perennial rye), Lichtkorn Roggen

BARLEY (Horedeum vulgare）

OATS (Avena)

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