Organic Oat Groats
From Gehl Hull-less Oats which are grown on the farm
Our oats are triple-cleaned with none of the processing used in producing commercial oat groats.
Weatherbury’s Oat Groats have their natural vitality, nutrients and flavor — and are ready for your recipes!
Organic Oat Groats
Use as an overnight hot cereal, in place of rice or in grain berry bowls.
Taste Weatherbury’s oat groats and find the flavor you’ve been missing. So tasty, you’ll forget they are healthy.
2lbs* ($8.31); 5lbs* ($17.85)
* 2 and 5 pound bags are packaged in re-sealable bags .
Please note: Weatherbury’s Oats are harvested and cleaned using the same equipment we use for grains with gluten. Thus, they cannot be considered gluten free.
Oat Groats are a favorite overnight breakfast cereal. Weatherbury Farm offers complete traceability back to the field where they were grown.
Gehl Oats in the field
Our Gehl Hull-less Oats Tracker traces the oats that are triple cleaned as oat groats back to the field where they were grown, here at Weatherbury Farm. Weatherbury Farm is one of a handful of farms that produces local oat groats (triple cleaned from oats grown on the farm). But we take it a step further and provide, through our grain tracker, complete traceability — information & pictures of how, when, and where the grain was grown.
When you serve Weatherbury’s Oat Groats either as a delicious breakfast cereal, in a berry bowl or in place of rice, you can pull out your cell phone and click on Weatherbury’s Gehl Hull-less Oats Tracker and let your friends and family see the oats in the field.
In 2021, Feast and Field took an in-depth look at Weatherbury’s oats that you might enjoy reading: Western Pennsylvania’s last remaining estate-grown oats .
Oat groats make a great start to the day.
Using Weatherbury’s Oat Groats
Use as an overnight hot cereal or in place of rice. Oat groats add interest to salads, grain bowls, soups and stews.
Oat groats can be added to bread recipes and in many baked goods for additional fiber and flavor.
How to substitute Weatherbury Oat Groats in your own recipes
You can use Weatherbury’s Oat Groats 100% in any the recipe calling for oat groats.
When you use Weatherbury’s Oat Groats as a breakfast cereal, as rice or in a grain bowl, you are sure to get comments about their great flavor. You needn’t tell the family that they are also more nourishing because they are cleaned with none of the processing used in producing commercial oat groats.
Health benefits of Oats
Organic Gehl Oat Groats
Oats are incredibly nutritious. They are a good source of carbs and fiber and are loaded with important vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Additionally, oats contain a beta-glucan, a fiber found to be very effective in lowering cholesterol. Oats also have avenanthramides, an antioxidant unique to oats, which may help protect blood vessels from the damaging effects of LDL cholesterol and keep blood pressure low.
Weatherbury’s oat groats are triple-cleaned with none of the processing used in producing commercial oat groats. Thus, none of Weatherbury’s Oat Groats’ vitality, flavor or nutrients are lost in the process.
Oat groats contain more protein and higher levels of fat, lutein, phosphorus, pyridoxine, potassium, zinc, and beta-carotene than modern wheat.
And best of all, they tastes great.
Storing Oat Groats
There are no preservatives in our oat groats. Please refrigerate. If you will not be using the oat groats immediately, please store in the freezer especially in warm weather.
More Information about Oat Groats
History of Oats
Harvesting Gehl Oats at Weatherbury Farm
Doctor Samuel Johnson’s 1755 dictionary defined the word “oats” as “A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.” To which his Scottish Biographer James Boswell replied: “Aye, and that’s why England has such fine horses, and Scotland such fine people.” 1 In Scotland, of course, their porridge (as they call oatmeal) is celebrated each year at the World Porridge Making Championship.
But the history of oats goes much further back than that.
At least 32,000 years ago, hunter gatherers were grinding oats. Around 2000 BC there is evidence of oats in Egypt but they were considered weeds and not particularly appealing. The Romans and Greeks thought oats to be food for barbarians. Even today, worldwide about 95% of oats are grown as food for animals.
Thankfully, the Romans brought oat cultivation to the British Isles. There is archeological evidence c.600 AD of oat cultivation in Scotland, where they are considered a national dish. Right alongside haggis and blood pudding, ingredients for which include oats.
Since 100BC, oats have also been popular in the Swiss Alps as a hearty food to fuel people traversing the Alpine peaks. In turn, this gave rise to Muesli in the 1800s.
In the 17th century, oats came to North and South America. And today, better than 80 percent of households in the U.S. have oats, usually oatmeal, in their pantry.
Gehl Oats are a hull-less oat bred by the Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Research Station in Ottawa, Ontario in 1997.
Oats — the grain
Oats (Avena Sativa) are normally grown as a crop with a hull that does not thresh free when harvesting.
We grow Gehl hulless oats, which are planted in the spring. Gehl is the first bald-seeded hulless oat; the hull threshes free from the oat groat. Cleaning the oats and even harvesting the oats is still an itchy proposition. But much less so than with hulled oats and other naked oats.
Farmer Nigel likens cleaning oats (not a fun job!) to working with fiberglass. After we harvest our oats, they are triple-cleaned with none of the processing used in producing commercial oat groatss. Thus, Weatherbury’s Organic Oat Groats have their natural vitality, nutrients and flavor.
Other oat products available from Weatherbury Farm:
Other grain berries available from Weatherbury Farm:
References:
- Boswell, James The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, 1791