4 Pack Kernza® Short Run Pancake & Waffle Mix
A short run collaboration with Hughes Farm & Perennial Promise Growers Cooperative. Grab it while you can!
IT'S DELICIOUS
It's nutty and warm and slightly grassy. It tastes like wheat grew up and got ~handsome~.
IT'S A SUPERGRAIN
It's got 2x the fiber and 2x the protein of wheat.
That is not a typo.
IT'S A BIG DEAL.
Kernza® is the world's first perennial grain. You don't have to plant it every year - it just keeps growing back, and its roots just keep growing deeper.
This is wild, because keeping roots in the soil is a core pillar of regenerative farming, with huge benefits: sequestering carbon, preventing erosion, cleaning water, and fostering biodiversity.
Wheat roots are 2 inches long & do great things for soil. Kernza® roots grow over 10 feet long.
GROWN BY PERENNIAL PROMISE GROWERS COOPERATIVE
Perennial Promise Growers Cooperative is a cooperative of 30 farmers working to grow the impact of Kernza® by empowering more farmers to plant it, and ensuring a high quality product for the brands that are ready to stand out.
They are truly on the razor's bleeding edge of regenerative agriculture, and we are so, so proud to work with them.
Why does it have that ®?
Because the Land Institute, a non-profit research, education & policy organization in Salina, Kansas, has been breeding ancient strains of wheat and wheatgrass to make it for 20 years, and they deserve the credit. It's not a GMO product.
Thank you for supporting regenerative farming today! It is your interest in regenerative farming that allows farmers to farm more acres more responsibly.
Simple Instructions:
- Mix together the egg, the melted butter (you can use oil as well), and the milk (you can use non-dairy milks of all kinds).
- Add the pancake mix. Mix again.
- Fry hot & ungreased.
Go Deeper:
If you are the type (and you know if you are), come down the rabbit hole with us:
Satisfaction Guarantee
We think we make the best pancake mixes on earth.
If you don’t feel that way, just reach out to us with your order number within 30 days of ordering and we will gladly refund you the cost of the pancake mix you ordered.
FAQ (waffles, etc)
How many pancakes does a bag make?
→ 1lb bag: 50 4 inch pancakes, 10 at a time. That's breakfast for two, five times.
Can I make waffles with these?
→ Yes! Add 2T/30g liquid to any of our pancake instructions.
Is it organic?
→ 90% of the grains in our pancake mixes are organic. We are a small operation and it doesn’t make sense for us to pay to certify organic. Yet.
How is there so much protein?
→ We use heirloom grains with high protein content and (sometimes) nut meal. We do not use any industrially manufactured protein powders.
How come popcorn flour is so low on the Popcorn Pancakes ingredient list?
→ Because it’s so light, and ingredients are listed by weight. It’s over half the product, by volume. That’s the whole point ;)
Is it NON-GMO?
→ Yes. GMO foods are bad for the soil, bad for biodiversity, and really bad for family farms. We are a small operation and it doesn’t make sense for us to certify Non-GMO. Yet.
It is Vegan?
→ All of our mixes are vegan. The instructions on the back of the bag call for egg and milk, but you don't have to make them that way: view vegan preparation instructions.
Is it whole grain?
→ Yes. All of our pancake mixes are not just whole grain, but whole-kernel. Our grains are stone-milled, which is the most complete kind of grain you can eat. Most so-called 'whole grains' have the germ (the most nutritious part of the grain) removed to extend shelf life. It's a trick, and we don't use it.
What are Heirloom Grains?
→ Heirloom grains are grains selected and planted from the best of each year’s crop, as was done for thousands of years before the industrial revolution. They have a variety and richness of flavor that modern grains simply cannot approach. Many of them contain gluten, but their gluten structures are fundamentally different: gentler, easier to digest.
Shipping (Carbon Neutral)
Shipping is free on all orders over $60. Shipping is $10 on orders under $60.
In stock items ship within 2 business days. 2-4 business days is the normal delivery time once in transit.
Pre-orders will whip when the entire order is ready.
We do not offer expedited shipping at this time.
We currently ship to all 50 US States. We do not currently ship outside this area.
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FARM PROFILE
The Farmer
Whilden Hughes is a 6th generation farmer, farming 5,000 acres of land in southeastern Wisconsin.
He sees his main job as making sure the land will thrive under another 6 generations of farmers.
He's kind of a big deal in the regenerative grains world: he's the co-founder of the Perennial Promise Growers Cooperative as well as local sustainable farmer group Farmers on the Rock, among others.
The Grain
Kernza is unique.
Other grains have to be planted every year. Their roots have to be ripped out to start all over again - which is hard on the soil!
Kernza is different.
Its thick, deep roots just keep going. Year after year, faithful and true, they clean water systems, they foster biodiversity, and they sequester way more carbon than other crops.
Kernza is delicious.
It tastes like wheat, but richer: a little grassier, deeper, and more nuanced.
It's got a whopping 18 grams of fiber and 19.2 grams of protein per 100 grams. Compare that to whole wheat: 10.3 grams of fiber and 9.2 grams of protein.
Dirt!
If you don't have good soil, you won't have good food!
It took thousands of years of prairie life to create the soil in the Midwest.
Soil is all about complexity and stability. Grasses, roots, bugs, microbes, beneficial bacterica, mychorrizae - food crops need them all.
It took chemical farming about 70 years to wreck it.
This leaves two chocies:
- Go all-in on chemical replacements for what should be in the soil (which, unfortunately, is how it's mostly done)
- Become a dirt farmer
Whilden is a dirt farmer. He's building a resource that will last another 6 generations: better soil.
Low-Impact, No-Chemicial Weeding
If you don't get rid of weeds, you're a weed farmer. (And not the fun kind!) They gotta go.
Conventional farming iust sprays them with toxic sludge. Like keeping mosquitos off your porch by lighting it on fire, it's very effective in the short run, but unwise over time.
Whilden's grandfather loved chemical herbicides because they solved problems. He watched yields go up, prices go up, pests go down.... He just didn't live into the decades where the costs became clear.
Today, Whilden's farm has a gentler touch. They use advanced weeding machinery that gives him fine-grain control over how he is removing things from his fields. It's a system he and only about a half dozen other farmers use. It looks like a giant and terrifying musical instrument.
Here's where pancakes come in!
Whilden wants to do all of this hard work.
He wants to grow more regeneratively, he wants to draw down the acres he still farms of conventional row crops.
But he can't do it unless you eat pancakes. (Kind of).
Whilden (& the Perennial Promise Growers Coop he started) can only afford to grow what there is demand for. This pancake mix is the first time his Kernza has made it into a product that a consumer can buy.
Your job is to close the deal. Eat pancakes.
Now, we know it's hard. But we must! We must eat pancakes! Even if they are delicious! Even if we already want to! Even if we have to make them for our friends and neighbors, we will eat pancakes!
We will eat pancakes!
Pancakes forever!
