Buckwheat blogs and online articles

 Buckwheat Kitchen Garden is obviously not the only source for information about buckwheat. Here are a couple other links which may interest you:

"It's Better With Buckwheat"

"An easy to grow. . ."

Birkett Mills buckwheat recipe booklet now online!

Birkett Mills, which manufactures Wolff's Kasha and other buckwheat products plus wheat-based foods, used to publish booklets full of recipes. Here we are in the Digital Age and the information is now on a website.

Two cultures, two types of buckwheat tea

Buckwheat has been used as both food and medicine by people all over the world. Because there are different varieties of buckwheat, the taste of each tea will vary, as well the part of the plant used, how long it steeps, and for what health issue(s) it was drunk.

Tartary (bitter) buckwheat is used fir soba-cha, "buckwheat tea," in China.

In the American West the Hopi people used "crispleaf" buckwheat to make tea, as well as Calfornia buckwheat. This brief article gaves more information.