Homegrown grains: the key to food security -- Corn: America's amazing maize -- Wheat: the main source of the staff of life -- The sorghum family -- Oats: the high-protein cereal grain -- Dry beans: the "poor man's meat" -- Rye and barley -- Buckwheat and millet -- Rice: the oldest garden grain -- Some uncommon grains, old and new -- Legumes: the overlooked partner in small-scale grain raising -- Feeding grain to animals.