Pines International

05/07/2026

Unlike other companies that harvest wheat grass after it turns into flag grass, we harvest only at a special time that occurs for a few days once each year. That's why our wheat grass has many times more nutrition than flag grass harvested several weeks after the wheat grass has disappeared. Our special harvesting machine harvests the nutrient-dense young grass so that it never touches the ground and is stored in the machine before being transferred to our low-temperature dying facility, which is only a few miles away.

05/06/2026

Our harvesting machine allows us to harvest at the once-a-year time when wheat grass and barley grass reach their peak nutritional level. The nutrient-dense leaves are stored on the machine itself before being trucked to our nearby low-temperature dehydrator.

04/22/2026

03/05/2026

07/29/2025

I don’t post often, but I wanted to take a moment to share something significant to me: my family’s small business, Pines International—you might know us as The Wheat Grass People.

Since 1976, Pines has been growing and producing high-quality Wheat Grass, Barley Grass, and Alfalfa leaf powders and tablets—long before “superfoods” were even a trend.

Everything we make is grown on our own 100% organic, non-GMO farm right here in Lawrence, Kansas.

•Nutrient-packed and harvested at peak nutrition

•High in chlorophyll, vitamins A, C, E, iron, magnesium, calcium & more

•Supports energy, digestion, and natural detox

•One serving = your daily dark leafy greens

•Packaged in eco-friendly glass bottles (never plastic!)

•USDA Organic • Non-GMO Verified • Kosher • Halal • Gluten-Free

From seed to shelf, we do it all ourselves—farming, manufacturing, and shipping—so we can guarantee the purest, most sustainable greens possible.

Curious to learn more or try it yourself? Visit Wheatgrass.com to shop online or use the store locator to find a local retailer near you.

Thanks for supporting our small business and helping us spread the green goodness! 🌾💚

07/27/2025

Douglas County, Kansas, home of Pines International, has some of the most renowned soils in the world. They result from eons of glaciers ending up in northeastern Kansas, melting, and depositing topsoil pushed from Canada to the Kansas River Valley. Few places on the planet have such fertile, mineral-rich bottomland soil.

Now, Shell Oil Company is "mitigating" the climate change it helped cause by covering those fertile soils with solar panels. As is typical of fossil fuel companies, Shell prioritizes profits over the environment and the welfare of people. They view our beautiful flat fields of glacial soil as merely a means to save money on constructing a solar farm.

They refuse to look at tens of thousands of acres of pastures and marginal land in our county that would be more suitable but cost a little more. They also overlook other ideas, such as installing solar panels over dozens of large parking lots in the area or placing them high enough above pastures to allow farmers to continue grazing their animals.

The future of our company depends on these fertile glacial soils. All the fields we use are these glacial soils that we further improved by converting them to organic agriculture. Besides the threat to our farmland, our dehydrating, bottling, and shipping facility would be surrounded by buzzing solar panels, which may make it impossible for people to work.

Along with other farmers and neighbors, we are doing all we can to fight Shell Oil Company so we can continue supplying our customers with the most nutrient-dense leafy green vegetable powder and tablets.

Nearly 100 years of scientific research on cereal grass grown here in Douglas County proves our cereal grasses grown on these glacial bottomland soils are so nutrient dense that only a small amount can provide a convenient and economical way to increase the greens in your diet. You can learn more at wheatgrass.com.

Established in 1976, Pines WheatGrass is the original organic green superfood. Never grown in trays, it's grown naturally outdoors in cold weather with deep roots.

07/22/2025

With increased demand from companies seeking quality ingredients for their green food blends, we needed to expand our certified organic acreage. Two years ago, we purchased an additional 95 acres of the world-renowned glacial bottomland soil, located north of the Kansas River.

To convert land to USDA Certified Organic requires three years without the use of any chemical fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides. During the first year of this transition, we planted a legume mix to enhance the humus and nitrogen levels in the soil.

This year, we planted oats, another well-known method for increasing soil fertility. The effect of the legumes from the previous year caused the oats to grow tall, almost to the shoulders of Jeff, our exceptional farm manager.

Pines is celebrating its 50th Anniversary of introducing the original green superfoods to the natural food marketplace. Gluten-free Pines Wheat Grass and Pines Barley Grass, harvested at the jointing stage, are naturally concentrated, economical, and convenient ways to increase the dark green roughage in the diet. USDA research found that 9 out of 10 Americans do not eat enough dark green, leafy wholefood vegetables.

The lack of these vital foods in the diet can result in poor colon health and other adverse health consequences.

You can learn more at wheatgrass.com.

Established in 1976, Pines WheatGrass is the original organic green superfood. Never grown in trays, it's grown naturally outdoors in cold weather with deep roots.

06/26/2025

We own the same farm that Dr. Schnabel and other scientists used for their published research on cereal grass starting in 1932. As our sales have grown, we have added additional acreage.

We are the only grower to cultivate cereal grasses, including wheat grass, barley grass, and oat grass, harvested during the nutrient-dense jointing stage. We carefully follow the extensive scientific and medical research.

The facts are clear: After the jointing stage, the plant drains the cereal grass of its stored nutrition. Cereal grass becomes brown and dead. Its nutrition went to make the flag grass and the developing grain. We have tested competing ingredients that have emerged in the marketplace since we began nearly 50 years ago, in 1976. Few contain real cereal grass. Instead, they contain flag grass.

This video shows the difference between an actual cereal grass and its flag grass. True cereal grass does not contain stems or developing seeds. Its purpose is to build extreme nutrient density through slow growth in cold weather to provide nourishment for the developing grain and the flag grass stems and leaves that support the grain heads. If you look at the bottom of each flag grass stem in the photo, you will see dead cereal grass, drained of nutrition to produce the flag grass and grain.

Other growers claim to produce cereal grass but choose to harvest after the cereal grass stage because the yield for flag grass can be many times greater than that of actual cereal grass. By claiming that it is cereal grass when it is flag grass, they can take advantage of the higher price that actual cereal grass commands.
To learn more, please go to wheatgrass.com.

05/18/2025

We are harvesting barley grass. So far, we have harvested 115,000 pounds (1.5 million servings). We provide cereal grasses under the Pines name, but quality green food producers also buy our certified organic ingredients.

We make our barley grass into pellets and put them in pharmaceutical totes for frozen storage. Freezing pellets protects the nutrient-dense vegetable from oxidation.

Because our nutrient-dense greens are stored frozen and in pellet form, they maintain high nutrition until a customer orders them. We then mill them into a powder or tablets.

No other growers provide the high nutrient density of our true cereal grasses because of how we grow them and when we harvest them.

Contrast our exceptional barley grass with that grown by chemically-based factory farmers. They harvest tall ”flag grass” long after the critical once-a-year jointing stage of actual cereal grass to maximize profits.

Factory farmers maximize profit by waiting past the peak of nutritional concentration when the plant is taller. Their harvesting machines and facilities are used most of the year for animal feed. Our facilities at Pines International are food-grade stainless steel and are used only for human food.

If you use a barley grass product or a blend that contains barley grass, you will know it came from Pines because of the dark green color of the pellets shown here. The darker the green a vegetable, the higher the nutritional concentration.

We harvest barley grass at the perfect young stage with special machines that cut the most nutritious part at the top of ten-inch tall plants. These dark green foods never touch the ground and are kept in a sterilized container on the machine until taken to our facility to convert into dark green pellets.

Some barley grass is extracted juice. If a green food product does not show fiber, it is likely a juice and not prebiotic. Juices without fiber feed the wrong kind of bacteria in the colon.

Only prebiotic whole-food greens, such as real barley grass from Pines contain the correct balance of fiber and green food nutrition to provide the proper conditions for probiotic bacteria and colon health.

Please learn more about our products at wheatgrass.com.

Established in 1976, Pines WheatGrass is the original organic green superfood. Never grown in trays, it's grown naturally outdoors in cold weather with deep roots.

04/16/2025

🌍 Celebrate Earth Day with Pines! 🌱

This Earth Day, embrace the power of nature with Pines Wheat Grass, Pines Barley Grass, and Pines Alfalfa—all grown organically, sustainably, and packed with pure nutrition straight from the earth using famous high-mineral glacial bottomland soils.

💚 Why Pines’ Cereal Grasses & Alfalfa?

• 100% Organic & Non-GMO

• Original and number-one source for green superfoods for nearly 50 years

• Nutrient-dense, plant-based, high protein, dark green leafy vegetables

• No Plastic – Only oxygen-free glass bottles to prevent oxidation

• Single Ingredient Nutrient Dense foods – Not blends with filler ingredients

• More nutrition per gram for the best value and lowest price per serving

• Whole food, not juice, for prebiotic green roughage – essential for colon health

• Straight from our 100% USDA Certified Organic farm

• We’ve never used chemical herbicides or pesticides in our 50 years

• Natural Rainfall – No farm chemical-contaminated irrigation wells

Make every day Earth Day by choosing wholesome, sustainable nutrition for you and the planet.

🔗 Please visit wheatgrass.com to learn more and join the green food revolution we started in 1976! 🌾💪

Established in 1976, Pines WheatGrass is the original organic green superfood. Never grown in trays, it's grown naturally outdoors in cold weather with deep roots.