Whole wheat berries: Choose from hard red or hard white wheat, both ideal for bread making. Breads made with hard red and hard white wheats will be very similar; the main difference is that red wheat produces a fuller, heartier flavor, and the bread will have a slightly darker color. Many of our customers prefer the whole grain white wheat, and a good number prefer the red — it's a matter of taste. If you're just starting out with whole grain baking and don't know how to pick, we suggest starting with hard white wheat. Note: Don't confuse "whole grain white wheat" with store-bought "white flour"! White wheat kernels are actually light brown in color, while red wheat kernels are reddish-brown. Store-bought white flour, on the other hand, is essentially nothing more than the endosperm (energy-producing carbohydrate) part of the kernel, with nearly everything nutritious removed in the interest of indefinite after-milling shelf life... which benefits huge commercial millers, at the expense of your health and the character of your food.

Ideal for baking: Our grain is triple-cleaned. It's also been tested, in the most meaningful way possible: By baking bread with it. You can depend on wheat from Pleasant Hill Grain to make bread and other baked goods that rise well, taste wonderful, and are packed with wholesome, natural nutrition! For those who may want to sprout some grain, our grain is fully sproutable.

Beat Oxidation! In whole-grain foods, the plant's cellular walls protect nutrients from oxidation. The process of oxidation begins to occur as soon as grain is ground, exposing the cell's contents to oxygen in the air. Flour that is several days (or more) old, has been exposed to oxygen that inevitably diminishes its nutritional value. The way to get full nutrition from whole grain foods is to mill them when you need them, right in your kitchen. Modern high-speed grain mills make it fast and easy to enjoy the freshest, best tasting and most nutritious food imaginable!

Convenient & safe storage: Our grain comes in six-gallon buckets (or pails... another name for the same container), containing 45 lbs. net weight of grain. When you store grain at home, it needs to be protected in a couple of ways. First, it needs to be protected from a variety of little critters who'd like to get to it before you do. Weevils, for example. And isn't this interesting: Chances are you've never seen weevils in the white bread or crackers you bought from the store. That's because weevils put no stock in media campaigns from white-flour milling conglomerates; rather, they know what's good for them, and they'd come after your grain from miles around if you let them. And mice have good nutritional judgment, too. Not that there's ever been a mouse in your house, but if there was... you wouldn't want it having access to your grain. Secondly, grain needs to be kept dry. The grain we sell is all dried to a very low moisture level that's optimal for storage and baking and guarantees that you get the most grain for your money. You need to protect your grain from picking up excessive additional moisture, which can be drawn from the atmosphere. The buckets our grain comes in provide full protection against storage risks. They have airtight gasket-sealed lids, Mylar liners, and oxygen absorber packets that remove the oxygen from the air in the bucket after we put the lid on. The O2 absorbers leave an atmosphere of nitrogen in the bucket, because air consists almost entirely of oxygen and nitrogen. (The oxygen absorber packets themselves are completely food-safe, being made of powdered iron and salt, which are kept separate from the product itself.) Our buckets safely lock out pests, and biological processes are put "on hold" in the Mylar protected, oxygen-free nitrogen atmosphere, so your grain enjoys complete peace and quiet until you want to use it. Note: If you don't already have a bucket lid removal tool, they make lid removal easy (see lower section of this Web page.)

Super-cleaned: All of our grain is triple-cleaned to ensure purity and protect your grain mill from any foreign objects. (Grain that isn't sufficiently cleaned may contain small stones that will damage or destroy a grain mill... not to mention that you don't want such things in your food!)

Non-GMO: All of Pleasant Hill Grain's whole grain products are natural (non-GMO).

Simple ordering: The cost of shipping is included in the cost of each bucket of grain, in the tables below. Because shipping cost varies with distance, grain price varies depending on where it's being shipped to. There are three tables below, each showing exactly the same products, but at somewhat different prices depending on where you want us to ship it to. Just find the table that lists your ship-to state, and use the Buy Buttons in that table to add grain to your shopping cart.

If you don't yet have a grain mill to turn your grain into flour, or you want to upgrade to a modern & convenient high-speed mill, Pleasant Hill Grain offers the world's best. You can see them on our home page: Grain Mills. (From where that link takes you, scroll down the page for a variety of mills.) We also have quality baking ingredients and special bakeware.

To Zone #1: Order from this table if you want your wheat shipped to one of these states: Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

To Zone #2: Order from this table if you want your wheat shipped to one of these states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington State, Wash. D.C. and West Virginia.

To Zone #3: Order from this table if you want your wheat shipped to one of these states: Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Seeing the Story: Want to show your family and friends just what they're losing when they eat food made with processed "white flour"? They say a picture's worth a thousand words, and we hope this demo set will help open more eyes to the reality of the situation. The first of the six vials in this set contains whole wheat kernels, recognized throughout history as the "staff of life." At the opposite end is bleached white flour... as gleaming and nutritionless as industrial science can make it.

The four middle vials showcase the nutritional riches that today's commercial millers sacrifice on the altar of unlimited shelf life: The bran, middlings, wheat germ, and wheat germ oil, where virtually all the goodness of the whole grain resides. None of that goodness remains in pathetic commercial "white flour" — but you can have it all, by making your own fresh flour from whole grains with a fast, convenient, modern grain mill in your home kitchen. You, and everyone you bake for, will soon wonder what you ever saw in "styro bread"!

Berkey® Stainless Purifier Systems

Durable, stainless steel icons of purity, Berkey purifier systems have produced safe water for millions of people around the globe for decades. Equipped with the new Black Berkey® purifying elements, Berkey® Stainless purifying systems removed pathogens at the EPA's incredibly high "Log 7" standard, meaning that no more than one contaminant molecule per ten million remains in the cleaned water.

Unprecedented purifying effectiveness: Berkey® purifiers using the Black Berkey® purification elements are proven to reduce pathogenic bacteria (including E. Coli, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Giardia and Cryptosporidium) by 99.99999%. The Berkey Light® System has been tested with the maximum pathogenic contamination levels that can be produced in a laboratory. When contamination levels exceed one billion pathogens per liter of water (10,000 times the density of contamination used in the standard test protocol for bacteriological removal) they become too numerous to count (TNTC). Such contamination levels are referred to as "lawn growth." Under normal testing protocol, one pathogenic organism is tested at a time, each with a fresh purifying element. For this test, however, the laboratory was directed to mix together a soup of three separate pathogenic "lawn growth" cultures. Tested under this extreme contamination level, absolutely no pathogens were able to make it through the purification elements. The laboratory then incubated the water, and nothing grew. When the effluent (filtered water) was viewed under an electron microscope not even inviable (dead) microbes were detectable — nothing was present but pure H2O. Furthermore, contaminants reduced to below-detectable-limits include Trihalomethanes, Radon 222, and volatile organic compounds including Benzene, 2,4-D, Heptachlor, MTBE, Styrene, Tetrachloroethylene and Toulene, among many others.

Now see the new Berkey Light® System too... Click the link below to see classic Berkey® Stainless as well as the new LED-equipped Berkey Light® purifier system with transparent copolyester housing!

Click here for our main Berkey Water Purifier page

Heirloom Seed Banks: Did you know most garden vegetable seed sold today is produced by hybridization, and that the seed from its produce will not grow another generation of the same type of plant? The seed produced by many hybrid plants is actually sterile, and what's not sterile will produce progeny that's very different and grossly inferior to the plant it came from! On the other hand, open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seed from long-established, quality seed lines not only produces more nutritious crops, but also reproduces seed that's viable, hardy, and genetically identical to the parent plant itself. What that means is that generation after generation, you can plant and harvest robust, healthy crops AND get ever-multiplying seed reproduction indefinitely into the future, independent of commercial hybrid seed companies!

Plant it now... or later... Our Seed Bank collection of heirloom, non-hybrid vegetable seeds is ready to plant for your next garden. But it's also prepared and sealed to protect it from moisture and all other threats, so you can store it for up to four years at 70 degrees — and much, much longer if you put it in a cool place like a root cellar, refrigerator or deep freeze. Better crops... perpetual seed for future crops... super-economical pricing... long-term storage-readiness... there's no downside here! Seed banks of culinary herbs are also available.

See Seed Banks

Metal Lid Remover Tool: Do you have plastic buckets with conventional, hammer-on lids that you want to remove? Just snip at intervals around the bottom edge of lid with wire cutter or similar tool, then this heavy duty metal bucket wrench will pry the lid right off. Makes a tough job easy. Side-lugs also allow you to remove the bungs from large barrels. 9.5" length.

Plastic Lid Remover Tool: Durable plastic construction, 8.75" length. Includes side lugs to remove bungs from large barrels.

Bucket Lid Wrench, Metal: $11.95 Qty: FREE FedEx SHIPPING if order total is over $99*. ($7.95 flat-rate shipping under $99)         Click for Info/Help

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