When you eat a loaf of whole grain bread, do you ever think about how you’re participating in a tradition thousands of years old? New discoveries in Switzerland and Turkey are highlighting bread’s central role in ancient Roman and Anatolian cultures.

This double-sided handout for older adults shows what a whole grain is, how much seniors need in a day, and easy and delicious ways to meet your whole grain requirements at every meal in larger, easy-to-read print.

Grains may be latecomers to the local foods movement, but they’ve arrived and they’re changing the way many communities think about flavor and flour. Use our map of farms, mills and malt houses to find locally grown, milled and malted grains near you.