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BAKE THE STORY WITH SONORAApparently, the Sonora fairies have taken over the kitchen.There’s flour in the air, dough on ...
08/28/2026

BAKE THE STORY WITH SONORA

Apparently, the Sonora fairies have taken over the kitchen.

There’s flour in the air, dough on the table, wheat berries waiting for the mill—and judging by the looks of things, nobody plans on cleaning up anytime soon.

We’ll allow it.

Because this is exactly what we hope happens when Sonora leaves our field and finds its way into your kitchen.

Mill it. Flour your counter. Make a mess. Try something new.

Turn it into warm tortillas, tender biscuits, pancakes on a Saturday morning, muffins, cookies, crackers, flatbreads—or something we haven’t thought of yet.

Sonora is a softer heritage wheat, and that’s part of the fun. It gives home millers another kind of wheat to explore and another way to discover just how much the grain itself can change what comes out of the oven.

Our part of the story happens here at Sunset Ranch, where we grow our Sonora under certified organic standards.

Then we hand the wheat berries—and the story—over to you.

We grow the grain.
You mill it.
You bake it.
And perhaps add a little flour-covered magic of your own.

Certified Organic Sonora Heritage Wheat
Grown at Sunset Ranch | Ravendale, California

WHY DID WE GROW TWO HERITAGE WHEATS?Rouge de Bordeaux and Sonora couldn’t tell exactly the same story if they tried.They...
08/27/2026

WHY DID WE GROW TWO HERITAGE WHEATS?

Rouge de Bordeaux and Sonora couldn’t tell exactly the same story if they tried.

They have different histories.

Different characteristics.

Different uses in the kitchen.

And that’s exactly why we wanted both growing at Sunset Ranch.

We’ve spent the last several weeks introducing you to these grains one at a time.

But what we’ve really been working toward is bringing them together.

Not just so you can read about the difference.

So you can mill them, bake with them and discover the difference yourself.

Rouge de Bordeaux + Sonora

Two heritage wheats grown on one farm in Northeastern California.

We’ll show you what we’ve been working on soon.

FROM OUR FIELD TO YOUR MILLBefore it becomes flour, it begins here.Rouge de Bordeaux growing under the high-desert sun i...
08/26/2026

FROM OUR FIELD TO YOUR MILL

Before it becomes flour, it begins here.

Rouge de Bordeaux growing under the high-desert sun in Northeastern California.

This isn’t wheat we purchase and repackage.

We grow it.

As certified organic farmers, how we care for the land matters. We nurture the soil, plant the seed, manage the crop under certified organic standards, irrigate it, watch it mature, harvest it and clean the grain.

We know this wheat from the ground it grows in to the grain we harvest.

And then we pass it on to you.

Whole wheat berries become freshly milled flour in your kitchen—and from there, bread, sourdough, pizza, tortillas, pastries or whatever you choose to make for the people around your table.

That’s the connection we value.

We nurture the soil that nurtures the wheat that becomes the food you eat.

From our farm to your mill.
From our hands to yours.

Rouge de Bordeaux Heritage Wheat
Certified Organic
Sunset Ranch | Ravendale, California

BAKING MAGIC WITH ROUGE DE BORDEAUXSomewhere between the wheat field and the kitchen, a little bit of magic happens.The ...
08/26/2026

BAKING MAGIC WITH ROUGE DE BORDEAUX

Somewhere between the wheat field and the kitchen, a little bit of magic happens.

The wheat berries are gathered.
The mill begins to turn.
A dusting of fresh flour fills the air.

And before long, hands are kneading dough and something wonderful is beginning to rise.

That’s the story we imagine when we look at Rouge de Bordeaux.

But behind the whimsy is something very real.

This heritage wheat is grown right here at Sunset Ranch under certified organic standards. From the soil where we plant it to the whole wheat berries you mill at home, we know where its story begins.

Where it goes from there is up to you.

A crusty artisan loaf.
Sourdough shared around the table.
Warm dinner rolls.
Pizza dough.
Or perhaps a recipe entirely your own.

There is something special about beginning with the grain itself—milling it fresh and watching a wheat berry grown in our field become bread in your kitchen.

We grow the grain.
You make the magic.

Rouge de Bordeaux Heritage Wheat
Certified Organic • Grown at Sunset Ranch
Ravendale, California

BAKING WITH SONORA — TRY IT YOUR WAYOne of the best things about baking with heritage wheat is that there really is some...
08/24/2026

BAKING WITH SONORA — TRY IT YOUR WAY

One of the best things about baking with heritage wheat is that there really is something to discover.

Try Sonora by itself.

Blend it with a stronger bread wheat.

Make the same recipe with Sonora and Rouge de Bordeaux and compare them.

Pay attention to the dough.

The texture.

The flavor.

And the finished bake.

That’s where you begin to understand why wheat variety matters.

We’re used to buying flour simply labeled “all-purpose” or “bread flour.”

But before flour was flour, it was a particular variety of wheat growing somewhere in a field.

For our Sonora, that field happens to be right here at Sunset Ranch.

And soon, you’ll be able to do the experimenting in your own kitchen.

Certified Organic Sonora Heritage Wheat
Ravendale, California

BAKING WITH SONORA — THE SOFTER SIDE OF WHEATBread isn’t the only reason to mill wheat at home.Sonora’s softer character...
08/21/2026

BAKING WITH SONORA — THE SOFTER SIDE OF WHEAT

Bread isn’t the only reason to mill wheat at home.

Sonora’s softer character makes it an interesting grain to experiment with in the everyday things we bake:

• Biscuits
• Muffins
• Pancakes & waffles
• Cookies
• Crackers
• Pie crusts
• Quick breads

These are also some of the easiest places to begin experimenting with fresh-milled flour.

Instead of reaching for a bag of ordinary flour, you start with the actual wheat berry.

Mill it.

Bake with it.

Taste it.

Then adjust and experiment until you discover what you like best.

That’s one of my favorite things about heritage wheat. It reminds us that flour isn’t really the beginning of baking.

The grain is.🌾

BAKING WITH SONORA — TORTILLAS & FLATBREADSIf there is one place Sonora’s history really comes alive, it’s in a tortilla...
08/21/2026

BAKING WITH SONORA — TORTILLAS & FLATBREADS

If there is one place Sonora’s history really comes alive, it’s in a tortilla.

Sonora is a soft white heritage wheat with centuries of history in the Southwest, where wheat became part of the region’s tortilla and flatbread traditions.

Fresh-milled Sonora flour has a lighter character than the stronger bread wheats many of us are accustomed to.

That makes a simple tortilla a wonderful way to experience the grain itself.

Flour. Water. Fat. Salt.

Simple ingredients that allow the wheat to actually have a voice.

There’s something pretty special about taking whole wheat berries grown in our field, milling them into flour, and turning that flour into food at your own kitchen table.

Certified Organic Sonora Wheat
Grown at Sunset Ranch | Ravendale, California

EVERY GRAIN HAS A STORYAnd Rouge de Bordeaux has quite a story to tell.Long before it reaches your kitchen, it begins he...
08/20/2026

EVERY GRAIN HAS A STORY

And Rouge de Bordeaux has quite a story to tell.

Long before it reaches your kitchen, it begins here at Sunset Ranch—growing in our high-desert fields in Northeastern California.

We grow our Rouge de Bordeaux under certified organic standards, caring for the soil and crop through the seasons until those wheat heads become the berries that eventually make their way into your hands.

Then the next chapter belongs to you.

Mill the berries into fresh flour.
Bake a loaf of bread.
Make sourdough, pancakes, pastries or something completely your own.

That’s part of the magic of heritage wheat.

You aren’t simply choosing flour from a shelf. You’re choosing the actual variety of wheat—and discovering the flavor, character and possibilities it brings to your baking.

We grow it. You mill it. Together, we continue its story.

Rouge de Bordeaux Heritage Wheat
Certified Organic • Grown at Sunset Ranch
Ravendale, California

WHY WHEAT BERRIES?Why buy the wheat berry instead of flour?Because the wheat berry is the grain in its whole, intact for...
08/20/2026

WHY WHEAT BERRIES?

Why buy the wheat berry instead of flour?

Because the wheat berry is the grain in its whole, intact form.

For people who mill at home, that means deciding when the grain becomes flour—not buying flour that was milled weeks or months before it reached your kitchen.

You mill what you need, when you need it.

And there is something pretty remarkable about putting grain into a mill and watching it become flour right in your own kitchen.

It connects baking back to where it actually begins.

Not with a bag of flour.

With a seed.

Rouge de Bordeaux — Certified Organic Heritage Wheat
Grown at Sunset Ranch in Ravendale, California.

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Morgan Road
Ravendale, CA
96123

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