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Organic Red Fife Heirloom Wheat Berries

$7.35 Regular Price

  • Product Info

    Red Fife is an heirloom wheat with a high protein level and deeper, more complex flavors than common hard red winter wheats. If you mill your own flour, you’ll love the robust, slightly sweet and spicy taste of freshly milled organic Red Fife. Or you can boil the whole berries and use them in pilafs, soups, breakfast bowls, and grain salads.

    Red Fife’s origin is unknown, but it is believed that Mennonite farmers in Poland grew the wheat that was shipped to David Fife, a Scottish immigrant in Canada, in the mid-1800s. Fife then grew the wheat and shared it with other farmers, calling it Red Fife because of its distinctive color. Red Fife set the baking and milling standards from the 1860s to the turn of the 20th century, and has been placed on the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity’s “Ark of Taste. It is thought to be a relative of Halychanka, a Ukrainian Heritage wheat, prized for its rich flavors and excellent baking qualities.

  • Great to Use In:

    Grain Salads, Breakfast Bowls, Soups, Stews, Pilafs, or Home-milled into flour

  • Milled From:

    Organic Red Fife

  • Protein:

    14.3%

  • Extraction:

    N/A

  • Moisture:

    12.2%

  • Ash Content:

    N/A

  • Falling Number:

    N/A

  • more info:

    Heirloom Hard Red Winter Wheat

Customer Reviews

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Pamela Wilson
Made wonderful bread!

I used half Red Fife with half Frederick for the most delicious bread! Very pleased!

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Shayne Sawyer
Another fantastic grain

Extremely pleased with this grain. It's clean and so very well packaged. I've loved all the different grain I've bought from Janie's Mill. Highly recommend this company.

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Terry Northway

Great berries for homemade bread making!

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Carolyn A.
Love Red Fife

I had never tried red fife before and didn’t know if I would like it and I went by the reviews on the website. Well, I love red fife and will continue to buy it! If you are on the fence, buy it, and buy the same size I bought, 25 lbs, even though I hadn’t tried it! So glad I bought that size. Did I mention that I love RED FIFE?

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R.S.
Best whole grain bread flour!

Red fife is a very different bread wheat. I grind my own flour and bake bread every week, and Red fife flour kneads in half the time of other whole wheat bread flours I have used. It also rises well and has more oven spring than I am used to. The texture of the bread is also fine and not crumbly. This is the best whole grain bread flour I have used, and the taste surpasses them all. Thank you for growing this wonderful variety!

Certifications You Can Trust

We are proud to have these three 3rd-party certification seals on every single product that comes out of Janie’s Mill.  They show you that an independent organization has determined that our products comply with specific requirements for safety, quality, and provenance. You can then enjoy Janie’s Mill products in full confidence that they are organic, kosher, wholesome, and delicious!