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Organic Pasta Shells – Regenerative – by Patagonia Provisions

$8.00 available on subscription

Description

Organic Pasta Shells 

Organic • Vegan • Non-GMO • Regenerative 

We make our nutritious, high-fiber organic pasta shells with just two ingredients: durum wheat flour and flour from Kernza®, a wheatlike perennial. Both are 100% whole grain, giving the pasta a high fiber content (25% Daily Value) and plenty of warm, nutty flavor. Bronze dies, used to cut and shape the dough, create a rough surface that allows sauces to cling, adding even more flavor.

This is the first ever Regenerative Organic Certified® pasta. This certification is the world’s most rigorous standard for agriculture.

Ways to Eat:

These small, ridged pasta shells make an amazing mac ‘n’ cheese (Vegan or Dairy)!  They’re great in soups and pasta salads, too.

  • To cook the pasta: Boil vigorously in well-salted water until tender, 8 to 11 minutes.
  • In a skillet mac ‘n’ cheese loaded with Bacon, Tempeh Bacon and/or mushrooms
  • Cooked and stirred into chicken or chunky vegetable soups
  • Great with Local, Seasonal Vegetables, Olive oil, herbs and Sustainably sourced Wild Boar or Fish if preferred.
  • In pasta salads

Nutrition:

  • Excellent source of fiber (25% DV)
  • 8 g protein per serving
  • Low fat
  • No sodium
  • No added sugar
  • Vegan
  • Non-GMO

Ingredients: Regenerative Organic Certified® durum wheat*, Regenerative Organic Certified® Kernza®

Allergens: Contains wheat

Details & Sourcing by Patagonia Provisions: 

These Wheat and Kernza grain are Regenerative Organic Certified®. Regenerative organic agriculture protects the health of the entire farm system: soil, farm animals and workers. Healthy soil is critical to fighting the climate crisis, because it helps draw down carbon and buffers farms against climate impacts like drought and flooding.

Regenerative Organic Certified Durum Wheat

  • Sourced from Upland Organics, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Certified in: 2021 (silver level)
  • Upland Organics is a family-run mixed cattle and grain farm. Cody Straza and his wife, Allison Squires, started farming in 2013 after Cody left his job as an engineer so they could live closer to the land. The couple have farmed organically from the start, incorporating regenerative practices in 2015.
  • Upland’s regenerative organic practices: Minimal soil disturbance, vegetative ground cover, crop rotations, cover crop mixes, integrated livestock, compost teas and biological amendments.

Regenerative Organic Certified Kernza

  • Sourced from A-Frame Farms, Madison, MN
  • Certified in: 2022 (silver level)
  • Farmer Luke Peterson and his wife Ali, a nurse practitioner, believe soil health promotes human health. Luke adopts a systems approach to farming, and has been growing Kernza since 2016. He grows other perennials on his diversified farm and raises livestock, too.
  • Kernza is a wheatlike perennial grain that grows exceptionally deep roots. Unlike most grains, Kernza doesn’t require annual tilling and replanting, so it’s less carbon intensive to farm. What’s more, Kernza’s deep roots build soil, protect groundwater from pollution and keep topsoil from eroding.
  • A-Frame’s regenerative organic practices: No fall tillage on annual crops, cover crops, diverse crop rotations, integrated livestock, perennials, habitat for pollinators and wildlife.
  • Learn more about our Kernza sourcing

Packaging:

  • 12 oz box
  • About 6 servings per container
  • No plastic window
  • Pasta box is made with 100% recycled fiber (diverted from waste stream) and is recyclable

Certifications:

  • USDA Organic​
  • Regenerative Organic Certified®​
  • 1% for the Planet​
  • B Corp

About Patagonia Provisions: “Industrial agriculture depletes soil, poisons water and threatens the outdoor places we love. Protecting the earth, and our future on it, means we have to find a better way. So we make foods that restore the planet instead of destroying it. As our founder Yvon Chouinard says, “People buy a jacket every few years, but they eat several times a day. If we’re going to save our home planet, it starts with food.” If we keep farming conventionally, the world’s topsoil, which produces nearly all our food, could disappear within 60 years, according to the United Nations. Regenerative organic farming creates thriving populations of microbes, which break down organic matter (dead plants) into topsoil. Also, regenerative organic systems like agroforests and no-till farms planted with perennials have well-developed roots that keep topsoil from eroding.”

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