Where to Buy Organic Wheat Berries (Whole Wheat Grain)
You’re curious about cooking with whole grains or grinding your own wheat berries, but you can’t seem to find where to buy organic wheat berries. Right? So here is a whole post about where I source my organic wheat berries to nourish my family.
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Where I Buy Organic Wheat Berries
I personally purchase my wheat berries from Azure Standard. I love that one of Azure Standard’s core values is to “Promote Healthy Food from Healthy Soil: We are what we eat”.
Here is an excerpt from their website:
The principle “what you sow, so shall you reap” is the heart of this Azure Core Value. Sow in healthy soil and you will reap healthy food; eat healthy food and your body will be healthy; carefully tend to healthy relationships, and build a strong and healthy community. It is a basic principle, and one that is most forgotten yet needed in our world today. Let us revive this Core Value in our Azure family’s life, and let’s be living examples to our community and beyond!
Azure Standard has such high standards, you can read the list of banned ingredients from their farm or you can watch this YouTube video from Azure Standard founder & CEO David Stelzer talks about their list of banned ingredients for the products they sell. He walks through each one, describing the particular health dangers. One of my favorite quotes is that Azure Standard
“believe’s that everyone should have access to high-quality, organic, non-GMO foods to live long, strong, meaningful lives.”
While you can find a variety of options for sizing and types of wheat berry, I typically purchase them in bulk. I get the 25lb bags of Azure Market Organics Hard Red Wheat, Hard White Wheat and Soft White Wheat. Each has their own protein levels and best uses.
I typically use the Hard Red for breads, Hard White for pastas or pizza dough, while I like the Soft White for waffles, muffins and pancakes.
If you are brand new to Azure Standard, they aren’t like a typical purchase and have an item shipped directly to you company. Each month there is a “drop” in my area where a big 18 wheeler comes to deliver everything.
The azure standard community comes together to help unload and stack each others orders. Then you grab your order and load it into your car.
There is a drop coordinator for each drop that sets the date and time for pickup and sends that information out to you.
I love ordering from Azure Standard because the quality of their items never disappoint me!
Other Places to Buy Organic Wheat Berries
- Amazon
- Sunrise Flour Mill
- Nutrimill
- Mockmill
- Country Life Natural Foods
- Jovial Foods
- Unsifted
- Janie’s Mill
- 4 Generations Organic
I’m sure there are other companies that provide organic wheat berry options, but these are the most popular. Again, my favorite is Azure Standard.
Benefits of Buying Wheat Berries
- Long Term Storage: Wheat Berries, when stored properly, can last for upwards of 20-25 years!
- Health Benefits: Once milled, grains lose many health benefits pretty quickly. By milling them yourself, you have access to the freshest, most nutrient dense flour available.
- Cost: Less expensive than purchasing organic flour that has already been milled, and removing most of the nutrients.
- Variety: You have access to a wider variety of flour options like barley, spelt, rye, einkorn when purchasing wheat berries versus finding those same as already milled flours.
Storing Organic Wheat Berries
Since I buy my wheat berries in bulk, I needed a way to store them. I have found that I like these 5 Gallon Food Grade Buckets with Lids for the bulk of my 25 pounds of wheat berries. But I don’t like to open them up daily to get just one or two cups out. So I also purchased these glass jars with lids for everyday use.
Storing Freshly Milled Flour
Personally, I just mill my wheat berries before each use. If you wish to mill and store some for later, then you can store them for up to one week – again, personally, I would store in the refrigerator or freezer. Because the bran, germ and endosperm are all still intact there is oil that is released that will cause it to go rancid fairly quickly. You will be able to tell if it goes bad by the smell.
