This Hotscotch Landrace organic wheat grain is a light purple heritage wheat mix. When milled, yields a coarse, dark flour with a unique full flavour; perfect for a rich, rustic sourdough bread.

Rather than just a name, “Hotscotch Landrace" refers to the farming method used. A "wheat landrace" is a genetically diverse population of wheat that has evolved within a specific region and farming system. These landraces are often locally adapted and possess unique traits due to selection pressures in their specific environments. They represent a valuable source of genetic diversity for breeding programs, offering potential for developing new wheat varieties with improved traits like disease resistance and drought tolerance. This grain mix (Landrace) is a combination of hard purple wheats: Purple Abyssinian,  Purple Kernel Durum,  Ethiopian Wheat (Triticum Aethiopicum), and AUS Wheat. 

This grain has been supplied to us by our friends Stephen and Tania Walter at Burrum Biodynamics in Marnoo, Victoria. In 2019, Steve and Tan took some grains from the Horsham Genebank to trial some new grains. 2025 has been the first production scale harvest of this particular combination crop, and we're excited to share with you the results of this successful harvest.