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. 

Landraces are important to the future of wheat because unpredictable weather, and soil degradation are already affecting how we grow food. They’ve been shaped by generations of local farming and natural selection, so they’re naturally more resilient. That makes them a key ingredient in long-term sustainability — helping farmers grow wheat with less water, fewer chemicals, and more stability. Landraces also contribute to food security. If one modern variety fails, it can wipe out a whole crop. But landraces act like an insurance policy — they’re varied enough that some plants are likely to survive whatever nature throws at them.

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 a handful of 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.