A golden barrette made from wheat adorns Debbie Warren’s silver hair. Her earrings are wheat, too, as is the delicate necklace resting below them. Across the room, the same humble material has taken considerably different forms – flowers and baskets, angels and animals, a graceful seahorse and even a miniature penny-farthing bicycle. For Warren, a retired nurse living with her husband at Warm Hearth Village in Blacksburg, the possibilities contained within a stalk of wheat seem nearly endless. And she …
