Browse our selection and create your order, submit it. After you have sent us an order, we will send an email back to you with the invoice attached including the courier charges! If you don't get a response during the next 2 days after ordering, please ask what happened. (Sometimes emails don't arrive or your submission landed in the junk box). Orders should be submitted before 10 am on Monday mornings, to be sure that they leave the next day (note: payments (best internet transfers) have to be made promptly).
Our delivery days to Christchurch are fortnightly, Courier dispatching days Tuesdays and Thursday (during the holidays we do less trips to town, so there will be delivery delays).
Courier charges will be included on your invoice:
$ 8.00 delivery surcharge to places between Scargill and Christchurch town
$ 8.00 per 2kg grain and kibbled products (not flakes) nationwide (not rural areas)
$11.00 per 5kg nationwide (not rural areas)
$10.00 per 25kg local areas around Christchurch (eg. Rolleston), Christchurch RD deliveries take only 15 kg and require a rural ticket on top.
$15.50 per 15 kg nationwide (not rural areas)
$19.50 per 25kg nationwide (not rural areas), mixed orders and flakes in bigger volumes need to be limited to 20 kg in total
plus $8.00 per pack for rural deliveries, max weight 15 kg! All courier weights are unfortunately gross weights (incl. about 0.5% packaging weight), courier companies are very strict. We will do our best for you and go to the limit! You may be able to avoid RD charges by collecting your delivery from one of the courier drop off points http://www.posthaste.co.nz/contact_us.html near you (please write the full address of the drop off point in your order).
Note: Since we live 40 km away from a courier drop off point, we aim to reduce our environmental impact by making sure that the vehicle taking couriers is reasonably full. As a result your order may have to wait a bit for the next courier run. Our main courier days are Tuesday and Fridays
Orders of more than 150 kg can be sent by freight (price depends on weight and destination).
All spelt/Dinkel products are BioGro and Demeter* certified.
Dinkel (triticum spelta) has been grown on the farm for some 15 years, in fact Milmore Downs pioneered this crop and its demanding processing requirements. The old variety used ensures excellent quality. Dinkel is an ancient grain, related to wheat. It was previously widely grown in Europe but due to its low yield and difficult growing characteristics it has mostly been replaced by modern wheat. Although Dinkel contains as much gluten as wheat its gluten (protein) molecule has a different composition which is why many people who are allergic to wheat can eat Dinkel. If you have a wheat allergy though you may or may not be able to eat Dinkel. Just try a small amount first.
Dinkel flour is a wonderful easily digestible product having a pleasant nutty taste. It can be used for bread but also for the full range of baking (cakes and biscuits, scones, pizza base ...) in exactly the same way as ordinary wheat flour though the bread dough may take longer to rise.
You can use whole barley for sprouting for human consumption.
Apart from that you use is for feeding chooks and other animals.