Our winter grain bundles are a once-a-year pantry restock, bringing the best of Manitoba organic farms to your kitchen!

Each seed and grain is a tiny piece of sunlight energy, transformed by plants into something that will nourish our bodies and our communities. Rather than being sold into the industrial food system, relying on long transportation networks, grain brokers and large automated production facilities, this food has all been milled in small batches on our farm, or on the farm that grew it!

We love knowing that food is part of the solution. A solution to the pressures facing our natural environment, and a solution to a food system that bends to the pressures of international transportation logistics and supply chain economics more than the needs of our bodies and our communities.

This year’s gluten free grain bundle includes 17 different types of grains, seeds and oils, all organically grown, prepared in small batches, and lovingly milled! All shelf stable, and enough for your winter soup pots, porridge pots, and baking.

Your January 2027 Gluten Free Grain Bundle will include the following Manitoba grown products:

Organic Naked Oats (10 lbs/4.5kg – your choice of rolled, steel cut, quick cooking, or whole/unmilled oats – check out the link here if you’re not sure which type is best for you)
Organic Black Lentils (5 lbs/2.2kg)
Organic Yellow Split Peas (3 lbs/1.3kg) (with an option to swap all or a portion for whole yellow peas)
Organic Wild Rice/Oat Rice Blend (4 lbs/1.8kg)
Organic Flax (1.5 lbs/675g)
Organic Pinto Beans (6 lbs/2.2kg)
Organic Black Beans (4 lbs/2.2kg)
Organic Cornmeal (3 lbs/1.3kg)
Organic Cornflour (1.5lbs/675g)
Organic Wild Rice (1.5lbs/675g)
Organic Hemp Hearts (1.5lbs/675g)
Organic Clover Spouting Seeds (1/4lb, 110g)
Organic Millet (2lbs/900g)**
Organic Buckwheat flour (3lbs/1.3kg)
Organic Gluten Free Flour Blend (3lbs) ***
Popcorn Kernels (1.5lbs/675g)
Organic Sunflower Oil (1L)

**For those following a whole-foods plant-based diet, there is also an option to leave out the oil and receive an extra portion of pinto beans, hemp hearts, or spelt flour (same $ value).

*** The Gluten Free Flour Blend is a blend of cornflour, oat flour, buckwheat flour, millet flour, and a very small portion of yellow pea flour, and seems to work nicely in pancakes, biscuits, etc., without the wonky additives of all purpose GF flours…

The list is as close of an approximation as we can make it, but there is a chance that some quantities will juggle around slightly before the final pick-up. Some of the products are milled and ready, but others are still being cleaned, milled and prepared. A few are still out on the wintery fields, waiting to be harvested! Our grain CSA is about letting the harvest, the sun and the rain dictate the details. We will do everything we can to ensure that you get good value for your purchase, and skipping out a lot of transportation, brokerage, packaging, and distribution costs makes many of the products more cost efficient than a trip to the grocery store, but it’s not always predictable or the same year to year!

Grain bundle pick ups will be in late January (Saturday, January 30th is the mostly likely date) in Winnipeg. Details will be sent out by email a few weeks in advance with details for selecting a time to pick up your bundle. With our ‘zero-waste’ model, you will have the opportunity to bring your own containers to collect your grains without the excess packaging so rampant in our industrial food distribution system. Bring clean jars, bags, boxes and containers of all shapes and sizes. I will send out a sample list and precise sizes closer to the pick-up day.

Zero-waste pick-up in January 2019. Mason jars are useful for all sorts of things!

Zero-waste grain bundles in 2020. Start saving containers to help us reduce single-use packaging!

Our Winter Grain CSA is not just about buying food. It’s a way to connect with the land and the farms around us. The pick-up day (in late January) will be an opportunity to meet the farmers and producers involved with growing your food, and also offers opportunities to gather, to learn, to meet others, and to share our ideas for creating a more sustainable and human-scale food system. There will be casual workshops and learning opportunities available throughout the day, and maybe even a potluck supper at the end of the day! Details will follow in January.

New in 2027, we are also working to have a few satellite pick-up spots around rural Manitoba. This is a way to make our bundles more accessible without needing to brave long highway drives in January. but it’s also a wonderful opportunity to connect with folks in your community who care about sustainable eating, and there are mini-workshops and gathering ideas percolating for each community! So far, Minnedosa and Hadashville are confirmed location, but check back for updates as January draws near. Please leave a note with your order which community you would be choosing, or reach out if you have any interest in hosting something in your area! Note that the exact date of each satellite pick-up may vary, likely a few days after the Winnipeg pick-up day.

New this year, instead of pre-selling the ‘fun’ add-ons on our website, we will be inviting our favourite local-food vendors to participate in a mini-farmers-market alongside the CSA pick-up. In addition to the veggie bundles that have always been a favourite, there will be a fun selection of mushrooms, teas and dried herbs, baking, and tinctures. Bring cash to purchase these items at the Winnipeg pick-up day!

If you order a regular or gluten free grain bundle a 10% discount will automatically be applied to additional grain items in your cart. This will show up automatically as a sale price on most items, including 8% off additional grain bundles. It’s not a huge discount because we set our pricing awfully close to our break-even point, but we love seeing people taking such amazing steps to fill their pantry to the brim and eat locally all year round! Please note that the discount only applies to grains, seeds, flours, and oil, not to the veggie/herb/honey add-ons.

A list of the recommended types of containers and sizes that you should bring is posted on the FAQ page. The flour products will all be pre-packaged in paper bags to help minimize gluten contamination (and flour-dust) at the pick-up day. Oats will also be pre-packaged, although if you have a large enough pail to store them in, we’ll happily empty our paper bags into your pails. And we’ll always have extra paper bags on hand just in case your containers aren’t fitting everything. You won’t have to leave with your pockets stuffed full of lentils 🙂

For those who are not able to make it to our pick-up day, we suggest trying to find a friend who can pick up for you, but failing that, we can also accommodate a small number of home deliveries. For our home delivery option, all products will be pre-packaged and your share will be boxed up and delivered to your home (Winnipeg addresses only, or reach out by email for any special requests). Select “Pre-Packaged with Home Delivery” at the checkout for a $45 fee. Veggie bundles are not available with the home delivery option as they require refrigerated storage.

If you have questions about the pick-up day, substitutions, allergens, pricing, etc, please visit our FAQ page here (or, of course, shoot us an email!) We are also super excited to be able to offer a Sliding Scale Pricing Model for those facing financial hardship, and there’s more information about that concept here.

I get a lot of questions about how long this quantity of food will last. It’s an impossible question to answer! I know families who share a bundle with another family to use it all, and I also know single folks who have purchased multiple bundles, with extras on the side! It really depends on your own cooking style. In our North American food culture, we are more likely to zip to the store several times a week to purchase what we need, and our long-term food use can be really difficult to quantify. But in addition to all the advantages of local/organic, purchasing in bulk is also a great way to reduce your overall food budget.

If you can’t anticipate using all of the variety of items that are in our grain bundles, all is still not lost 🙂 After the dust settles, usually about a month after the CSA, I will reconfigure the website with the individual items/add-ons that we have extras of, and orders can be placed for individual items, either for home delivery or Winnipeg pick-up. Items are a few dollars more because buying in bulk is most efficient for everyone, products will be pre-packaged, and getting your delivery is certainly less of an event (no pick-up day excitement and workshops…), but this format allows you to select only the items that you know you will use. Many staples (oats, lentils. beans, etc) will be available all the way through the year for regular re-stocks. I can’t guarantee that all items will be available, but i’ll try!

I look forward to seeing you in January as we create a better food system together.

Featured products

Gluten Free Winter Grain Bundle January 2027

Naked Oats (9kg/20lbs)

Naked Oats (9kg/20lbs)

Organic Spelt Flour