Teff
Teff is a wonderful grain--easy to grow, gluten-free, with great flavor. The world's smallest cereal grain, each grain about the size of a poppyseed. Because of this, it is super-nutritious--less of the grain is just starch. This ivory variety produces baked goods with very good flavor and texture, light and mild even though they are whole-grain. Makes a wonderful hot cereal with no grinding required--I like this better than oatmeal. Or use as polenta. Of course, if you grind it, you can use the flour for any recipe that doesn't need a high gluten content. In fact, my favorite wheat-free baked goods are teff. Start early in flats if you have a short growing season, or if you have weed problems with grasses--the little seedlings look like lawn grass at first. Or if you choose to direct-sow after frost is over, one way is to mix the seed with 2 cups of soil before broadcast-sowing carefully. You want to end up with plants about 8" apart. A high-yielding crop. This is a short-season strain called AL White. 500 seeds