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Barley

That's right: barley is grown in Quebec and offers many benefits!

Its key benefits

How can it be used in the kitchen?

Switch out the pasta in your minestrone soup for barley (you'll thank us later!) 

You can also cook it like rice, for a local, eco-friendly alternative.

Barley can be used for much more than brewing beer! Barley has been grown for thousands of years and is used virtually everywhere in the world—from Scotland to the Middle East, and throughout Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia! In Quebec, barley is grown in the Lower St. Lawrence, Gaspé and Magdalen Islands, and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean regions (1).