Buckwheat Pancake Feedback Form
School feedback on your experience with the buckwheat pancake mix is really helpful! Thanks for taking a few minutes to leave your comments here: https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0NyKIAMOaO1PiL4
Pancake Mix How-to Video
- How to easily use the available buckwheat pancake mix in a school meal program
- How to use a sheet pan to save time (sheet pancakes!)
- Nutritional benefits, and benefits to local farmers
- Tasty add-on ideas
- Resource links, including grain contribution to the school meal patter
Please view this short, 7-minute instructional video on quick-preparation tips for the farm-to-school buckwheat pancake mix. Or click on image for link.
Grain equivalents planning sheet for school meal pattern
Buckwheat Pancake Mix Whole Grain Equivalent; Reference Sheet for School Meal Providers: Buckwheat grain equivalent
Buckwheat Pancake Mix and Project Information
- Marketing and Outreach Information Packet for School District Meal Providers: Buckwheat Promotional Packet_Full
- Example Facebook post by Ellensburg School District featuring a “buckwheat pancake breakfast bar” with apricot swirl! This combined the best of both worlds in pancakes and breakfast bars, and the kids appear to have loved them:
- Check out on the our statewide buckwheat and millet collaboration here: https://www.sustainableseedsystems.org/. Library of project pictures, information on millet and buckwheat product development and testing, team members, and events.
Buckwheat Farm-to-School Market Assessment
In 2023, a farm-to-school specialty grain market assessment was conducted in collaboration with the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Of approximately 300 school districts in the state, 224 districts completed the survey (75% response rate).
A few preliminary findings can be found in this preliminary write-up linked below, while a report is prepared.
Farmer Feedback on Buckwheat Trials
Objective: Conduct researcher- and farmer-led millet and buckwheat field trials to identify new varieties for the region that improve upon baseline (Years 1-2).
Buckwheat field trials were coordinated in western Washington and Oregon at ten farms in 2022 and seven farms in 2023. In 2022, each farm grew on average three varieties, which included the control (Mancan) at each farm. Each variety on average was grown in four locations. Plots for each variety were typically ¼ to 1 acre, though one site (The Evergreen State College Organic Farm) grew plots on only 15-foot x 4-foot prepared beds for student instructional and research purposes.
A research write-up of field trial results is in progress. Currently available information can be found here: https://www.sustainableseedsystems.org/new-grains-nw.html
A summary of farmer-feedback based on participatory field trials to evaluate buckwheat from the farmer perspective can be found here:
Farmer Observation Data Summary