Sustainable Cereals

About this episode

In this episode, Jane Craigie explores sustainable practices in cereal production, focusing on barley and its various uses.

There is a huge variety of grains, from quinoa to spelt, from bulgur wheat to pearl barley, from barley to rye. Barley used to feed livestock and used in whisky distilling are found right on Jane Craigie’s doorstep in Aberdeenshire. In this episode of the Science Behind Your Salad, Jane meets the growers and distillers as they strive to produce the crop sustainably. She meets Graeme Cruikshank from the award winning Aberlour distillery, Nicola Wordie who has supplied the distillery with barley in the past, Andrew Booth who farms sustainably with a large Anaerobic Digester on his farm and we also hear from Horta, a subsidiary of BASF, striving to improve yields in a part of the world where barley for beer is vital. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Jane Craigie

Guests: Graeme Cruikshank, Nicola Wordie, Andrew Booth

Topics covered

• sustainable agriculture
• grains
• barley
• distilling
• farming practices
• food production

Keywords

• sustainable cereals
• barley
• whisky distilling
• farming
• Anaerobic Digester
• grain varieties
• food sustainability

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Horta, BASF, Aberlour distillery

Products: barley, whisky, quinoa, spelt, bulgur wheat, pearl barley, rye

Places: Aberdeenshire

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