Organic Rolled Oats
Rolled to order at Weatherbury Farm from Gehl Hull-less Oats which are grown on the farm
Customers tell us Weatherbury’s rolled oats are the best they’ve ever tasted.
After we harvest our oats, they are triple-cleaned and rolled, with none of the processing used in producing commercial rolled oats.
Thus, Weatherbury organic rolled oats have their natural vitality, nutrients and flavor.
Organic Rolled Oats
Rolled to order from Gehl Hull-less Oats grown at Weatherbury Farm.
Taste Weatherbury’s oats and find the flavor you’ve been missing. So tasty, you’ll forget they are healthy.
1.5 lbs* (7.17); 5 lbs* ($19.11); 20 lbs ($71.68)
* 1.5 and 5 pound bags are packaged in re-sealable bags .
Please note: Weatherbury’s Oats are harvested, cleaned and rolled using the same equipment we use for grains with gluten. Therefore, they cannot be considered gluten free.
Rolled Oats are a favorite breakfast cereal. Weatherbury Farm offers complete traceability back to the field where they were grown.
Gehl Oat Field at Weatherbury Farm
Our Gehl Hull-less Oats Tracker traces the oats that are rolled into oatmeal back to the field where they were grown, here at Weatherbury Farm. Weatherbury Farm is one of a handful of farms that produces local rolled products (rolled from grains 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 Rolled Oats either as a delicious breakfast cereal or use them in making pancakes, cookies etc., you can pull out your cell phone and click on Weatherbury’s Gehl Hull-less Oats Tracker and let folks 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 .
Using Weatherbury Organic Rolled Oats
Our customers tell us that Weatherbury’s rolled oats make the best oatmeal.
The recipe for rolled oats is on the package back. You may see lots of “ideas” on line about how to make a better tasting oatmeal — seriously, Weatherbury’s Rolled Oats are so good that they don’t require any “fixing up.”
Oats can be used to make pancakes and in many baked goods from scones to muffins.
Meat loaf has always been a family favorite (the recipe is in the cookbook you receive with your first order) — we think it is even better now that we are using Weatherbury’s rolled oats.
How to substitute Weatherbury Rolled Oats in your own recipes
For quick breads (like banana), pancakes, cookies and muffins, you can use Weatherbury’s Rolled Oats 100% as the recipe states.
When you use Weatherbury’s Rolled Oats as a breakfast cereal or in baked goods, 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 rolled “live”.
Health benefits of Oats
Oatmeal pancakes made with Weatherbury’s Rolled Oats and Oat Flour
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 oats are rolled “live;” commercial oats are steamed before rolling. Thus, none of Weatherbury’s Rolled Oats’ vitality, flavor or nutrients are lost in the process.
Rolled oats are easier to digest and contains 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 Rolled Oats
There are no preservatives in our rolled oats. Please refrigerate. If you will not be using the oats immediately, please store in the freezer especially in warm weather.
More Information about Rolled Oats
Weatherbury’s Organic Rolled Oats
History of Oats
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 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.
According to market research, oatmeal is the world’s most popular cereal in the world.
Oats — the grain
Harvesting Gehl Oats
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 which means it can be rolled “live” rather than being steamed prior to rolling. 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 and rolled, with none of the processing used in producing commercial rolled oats. Thus, Weatherbury’s Organic Rolled Oats have their natural vitality, nutrients and flavor.
Other oat products available from Weatherbury Farm:
References:
- Boswell, James The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, 1791