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 on this survey.
Quick Links
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.
Grain equivalents planning sheet for school meal pattern
Buckwheat Pancake Mix Whole Grain Equivalent; Reference Sheet for School Meal Providers: Buckwheat grain equivalent (pdf).
Project information
Check out our statewide buckwheat and millet collaboration at Sustainable Seed Systems. 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.
Students at Garfield Elementary learn about buckwheat, milling, nutrition, and how to make buckwheat pancakes.
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 at Sustainable Seed Systems.
A summary of farmer-feedback based on participatory field trials to evaluate buckwheat from the farmer perspective can be found here: