While preparing for a teacher workshop five years ago at Tacoma's Ft. Nisqually Living History Museum, regional historian-educator Richard Scheuerman found reference in early Northwest trading post journals to the extensive cultivation of wheat, barley, oats, and other crops as early as the 1820s--a generation before American pioneer immigration over the Oregon Trail. Early administrators of the region's Hudson's Bay Company trading network sought agricultural self-sufficiency by introducing cereal grains for baking and brewing that flourished throughout the region. This research led to a project in cooperation among Cascadia Heritage Enterprises, WSU/Mt. Vernon Research Center, and the USDA Germplasm Center in Aberdeen, Idaho, to identify these original "landrace" varieties and reintroduce their unique flavor profiles to artisan bakers and craft brewers and distillers.