Heirloom Grains & Corn

Specialty Grain Spotlight: Scarlet Rice

By Emily Adams / August 10, 2026 /

Once you get far enough into an heirloom bean habit, it stops staying contained to beans. Beans, rice, corn, and squash have been grown and eaten together for generations, and once that clicked for me, I wanted to work my way through all of those categories, not just the bean aisle. Rice felt like the…

Specialty Grain Spotlight: Einkorn

By Emily Adams / June 28, 2026 /

If you want to shake up your grain routine, it is time to meet einkorn. I first ran across it while reading Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino, and I knew I had to try it. Learning about these endangered food traditions even made…