Join us at Tuerong Farm / Grainz Social for a wheat walk and diversity talk, with special guests

Get some flour through your fingers in the on-farm mill and bakery too.

We’ll be talking diversity of grain and the various pathways from seed to soil, silos to stones, sifter to scales and more.

A full day on the farm learning and catching up with friends old and new. Good food too.

Guest presenters:

Claudia Carter, Executive Officer , California Wheat Commission / California Grain Foundation

Professor Andrew Ross, Cereals Scientist, Oregon State University

Doctor Kate Howell, school of Food and Agriculture, University of Melbourne

Matt Newell, Perennial Grain Researcher, NSW DPI

Sam Couper, Barley Max

Louie Prager, WSU Bread Lab / Prager Brothers Artisan Breads. Louie is a plant breeder, baker and business owner. He has recently completed his masters at WSU, investigating the breeding of barley for the whiskey and brewing market. His plant breeding interests extend beyond barley to wheat and other non-cereal plants.

Boris Portnoy, All are Welcome Bakery/Grey and Grey Georgia restaurant. Boris spends part of the year in Georgia, at the nexus of Europe and Asia and one of wheat's key centres of diversity. There is more diversity in wheats endemic to Georgia than almost anywhere else on earth. It's also home to distinct bread, wine and cheese traditions still threaded through Georgia cuisine.

As well as hearing from the above, look at and hear about:

The crops at Tuerong, including trail sites of wheat rye and barley, cover crops, new diverse population blends and a select milling wheats for 2024/25 harvest.

Small-scale stone milling and roller milling, and grain processsing between harvester and mill.

Baking with high extraction flour of different varieties and types.

Our broader farm system - value adding (flour, bread, beer, beef) in a local food system, livestock integration, crop rotations, habitat restoration and our recent efforts in soil biology.

Monday 11 November 2024. All welcome. More special guests and more details to follow.