Our Ancestors’ Wheat
Humans have always had a deep relationship with eating wild wheat, as wheat is one of humanity’s oldest foods. According to archeological evidence, hunter-gatherers began picking this wild plant over 30,000 years ago. In the Fertile Crescent in 12,000 BC, the early farmers made a discovery that would change not only the face of agriculture but society itself.
This was the discovery of Virgin Wheat, a nutritious and easily grown food source that could be reliably harvested. When people learned to sustain themselves by farming wheat, they were able to form civilizations, without the need to be nomadic. Cultivation methods for Virgin Wheat quickly spread from the Fertile Crescent to the Balkans and into Eastern Europe.