Heritage Wheat Questions

What is "heritage wheat"?

Heritage wheat refers to varieties grown before the 1950s, before modern hybridization. These grains retain their original structure and flavor, and many people find them easier to digest than today’s wheat.

Why is Heritage Wheat Easy-to-Digest and More Nutritious?

Wheat has been hybridized over the years to increase yields. As a result, the gluten structure in wheat has changed, which correlates with a significant increase in gluten sensitivities over the past 50 years. This hybridization has also decreased th

How is Heritage Wheat “Beyond Organic?”

Our wheat is grown in our fields for your family. We have control of the entire wheat journey from the moment the seed is placed into the ground of our organic fields to the moment it arrives on your doorstep. Glyphosate is never used on our wheat. P

What varieties of wheat does Sunrise Flour Mill use?

Turkey Red is our hard winter wheat, and White Sonora and Pima Club are our soft white wheats.

Are Sunrise Flour Mill wheat varieties ancient grains?

We use heritage grains, rather than ancient grains. Both ancient grains and heritage grains are pre-hybridized, pre-1950’s wheat, but ancient grains are older. We find our flours bake lighter and are more flavorful than most ancient grains.

Where is our wheat grown?

Our wheat is grown on organic farms in Colorado and Arizona.

Is there Glyphosate or Roundup used on your wheat?

Our flour is 100% organic. Glyphosate, or Roundup, is never used on the wheat we use to make our flour.

Is heritage wheat the same as organic wheat?

Organic certification has to do with the growing and processing methods. Conventional wheat can be organic but it may cause the same digestive issues as non-organic conventional wheat.

Are any of your products GMO?

None of our products are genetically modified.

Are you “regenerative”?

We get this question a lot, and the honest answer is: we farm regeneratively in a way that makes sense for our limited moisture dryland farms, including Eastern Colorado.There’s no single, universally agreed-upon definition of “regenerative.” Some pe