Father Paul’s interest in buckwheat in general and tartary buckwheat in particular has sparked many adventures and conversations from the wheatfields of Kansas, the Acadian Coast, the Common Ground Fair, to a Lewiston event featuring ployes side by side with injera. The Dumais family farm in Frenchville serves as a family connection to a larger cultural discussion about this variety of buckwheat that has traveled from the Himalayas to Western France then Nova Scotia and into the St. John River Valley in Northern Maine. Come join the conversation about what could rightly be referred to as Maine’s landrace buckwheat variety.
