Whole Barley

Whole Barley is truely an ancient grain. Barley health benefits include twice the calcium and fibre than rice and about 30 percent fewer calories. Barley also has a better sodium level than rice. This Barley seed is ready to plant. If you want to cook and eat it, it needs to be soaked for 24 hours prior to cooking. 

Barley has a nutlike flavour and is high in carbohydrates, with moderate quantities of protien (23g/1 cup grain & 3.55g cooked), calcium, phosphorus and small amounts of the B vitamins.  Barley is low in gluten so it is best used to make unleavened bread or flat bread. Very nutritious if eated as grain sprouts or green shoots! 

Barley can be used as livestock feed and has soft straw for bedding or roughage for livestock and other animals. It is a very versitile crop!