Amaranth, Golden Giant, Amaranthus cruentus (100-110 days) A late season grain amaranth also known as "Hot Biscuits" that produces large orange/gold and copper seed heads on top of 6 foot tall stalks. Gorgeous ornamental. Include as a fabulous filler flower in seasonal fall bouquets.    Edible green leaves with golden brown veins and stalks. Very productive, yielding up to 1 lb of seed per plant. Easy to harvest, simply clip the heads and hang to dry. Once dry, thresh by stomping on them and winnow to remove chaff.  Lends diversity to our diet when incorporated as a staple to supplement other grains like rice, or ground into flour to mix into breads and pancakes.  Packet (1 1/2g ≈ 1,000 seeds) Bulk: 10 g.  ...

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Finger Millet, Raji  (90 days) Eleusine coracana - A Finger millet that is also known as “Ragi”, it is one of the most important coarse cereal crops grown in Himachal Pradesh. Ragi is a staple food in many regions of the state. Raji is a frost sensitive grass that grows to about 30” tall and can be planted at 12” spacing. This crop has excellent storage properties and is resistant to the outbreak of pests. Ragi is full of calcium, protein, and amino acids and is cooked and eaten much as rice is in drier regions of the world where rice will not grow easily.Interestingly, millet is the 5th most commonly cultivated grain crop in the world after wheat, rice, corn and barley. Grain is naturally hulless and easy to grow on a homestead scale for food, poultry feed and decorative accents to bouquets. SSF. HEIRLOOM Packet 1g (~300 seeds)...

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Millet, Aukse's Foxtail (100 days) Setaria italica - Most typically grown for floral arrangements and bird seed. Tops are dense almost fluffy looking clusters of small seeds that grow from 4-10” long. Tops droop in a form that resembles a foxes tail. Lovely waving growth characteristic when caught by a breeze in the garden.  From our friends at Adaptive Seeds who obtained it while on their Seed Ambassadors Project by The Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture in Dotnuva, Lithuania, who wrote that “the breeder there had been working with millets since long before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the birds at the zoo prefer his varieties.”  Foxtail millet has a hull which is quite difficult to remove and as such used for the applications above more often than human consumption. Millets may have been consumed by humans for about 7,000 years and potentially had "a pivotal role in the rise of multi-crop agriculture and settled farming societies". Interestingly, millet is the 5th most commonly cultivated grain crop in the world after wheat, rice, corn and barley. HEIRLOOM. Packet 1g (~150 seeds) ...

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