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Originally Posted by Wheatenergy
To let us all know where you purchase your CERTIFIED ORGANIC seeds from also???????
They ARE certified ORGANIC ....Correct?
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I would gladly send seed to the Wheatgrass Yogi if we could.
Our seed is all self-sourced from our own fields. This allows us to very tightly control the drying of the wheat berries. It is believed that the massive storage bins in use today are the source of molds. They are so large that they prevent proper drying from taking place. You can hear a little more about these thoughts from Doug Kaufman at
http://www.knowthecause.com
In Canada, the wheat marketing board forbids the sale of seed direct to consumers. The law requires all seed (but not seed your use yourself) to pass through the board. For this reason, we neither use a supplier nor can we be the supplier.
I honestly don't know if that is the case in the U.S. but from a Canadian perspective this presents a pretty significant problem. All seed available from the wheat marketing board is treated with methyl-mercury which is a fungicide treatment (yuck!). This affects most seed available to Canadians (at least) and means that if your seed has a copper like color, be aware that is has been treated with methyl-mercury which most find very objectionable.
This is another reason why the approach that we use can be so helpful to people, it ensures that Canadians avoid methyl-mercury. Does anyone know about the the wheat marketing board and methyl-mercury regulations in the United States?