Heirloom Wheat Brings New Life To A Central Texas Farm, And To A Local Whiskey

By Michael Marks

Published May 31, 2019 at 3:39 PM CDT

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Heirloom wheat seeds. These seeds were harvested in Hawaii, but Wes Perryman is trying to do the same thing at his farm in Central Texas, with the help of an Austin-based whiskey distillery

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Austin-based distillery, Still, asked farmer Wes Perryman to grow wheat from its stockpile of heirloom seeds, some of which haven’t been grown in about 100 years.