BIRTHDAYS | GRADUATIONS | SHOWERS This cake can be made a day in advance and it will be even better! Old & Ancient Flour Note for Two Layer Cake: Double these recipes. Spread ganache across the top of one cake for the first layer. Stack the second cake for the second layer. Spread the remaining ganache…
Author: Judy Cornell
Pumpkin Rye Cookies
Gazelle Rye Flour | More about Chai Masala | ORDER GAZELLE RYE FLOUR
Flour from Regenerative Ag
It’s happening. And at Conservation Grains, we started to mill with our own regeneratively grown grains in 2021. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-05/king-arthur-flour-turns-to-farm-in-montana-for-climate-friendly-wheat?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy&ck_subscriber_id=1494754200
Chai Masala Powder
… for our Pumpkin Rye Cookies | Purchase Chai Masala | Recipe for Chai Masala
NYTimes: I’m Appalled by What I Learned About Recycling. But We Can Fix It.
I’m Appalled by What I Learned About Recycling. But We Can Fix It. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/opinion/recycling-plastic-paper-aluminum.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Ragnar’s Scones
Old & Ancient Flour
Scaling up Regenerative Ag
… The top 5 principles of regenerative agriculture include: These principles are designed to help improve soil health and fertility, produce nutrient-dense foods, increase the land’s ability to filter and retain water, naturally protect against pests, and capture substantial amounts of carbon from the air and store it in the soil. https://www.feedandgrain.com/blogs/feed-grain-pov/blog/15542095/the-role-of-grain-handlers-and-processors-in-the-regenerative-agriculture-revolution
Adding malted grain flour …
Our Malted Alzada Durum is a diastatic malt flour.
Mycorrhizal Fungi
Mycorrhizal fungi often form mutually beneficial relationships with plants. They trade essential nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen in exchange for carbon, and act as an extended root system, allowing plants to access water they can’t reach. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/10/08/fungi-networks-biodiversity/?utm_campaign=wp_must_reads&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_mustreads
Last Best Pancake
Last Best Pancake Flour
Microbiome & the Brain
Evidence is mounting for a link between the gut and the brain in what is termed the psychobiome—part of the microbiome https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2022/12/20/how-food-affects-the-mind-as-well-as-the-body?utm_campaign=r.coronavirus-special-edition&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=2023092&utm_content=ed-picks-article-link-5&etear=nl_special_5&utm_campaign=r.coronavirus-special-edition&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=9/2/2023&utm_id=1745994
Big Sky Rye Chocolate Cake
Big Sky Rye This cake is simply wonderful–moist, chocolatey, a hint of rye, and yet not heavy nor overly sweet. A real treat that is easy to make. Serve with fresh fruit. For good quality baking cocoa and bittersweet chocolate chips, look for Equal Exchange. Also, we like Wholesome’s organic dark brown sugar. Nearly all…
Recycling vs reality: Wishcycling
Washington Post articlehttps://wapo.st/3E3S1eZ
Grains blended in the field
Maslins, a Method of Planting Grains You’ve Probably Never Heard of https://ambrook.com/research/crops/maslins-polyculture-grains-cereals-climate-adaptation?utm_medium=share
NYTimes: How New Yorkers’ Food Scraps Get ‘Digested’ to Provide Gas for Homes
How New Yorkers’ Food Scraps Get ‘Digested’ to Provide Gas for Homes https://nyti.ms/3KRtCMA
Sourdough Crackers
Wheatsome | Big Sky Rye | Bucking the Sun Pizza Flour | Old & Ancient | Warhorse | Durum | Kamut | Spelt | Sprouted Spring Wheat
Wheat farming stores carbon
How much CO2 does wheat sequester? For each kg of wheat grain produced, a net 0.027–0.377 kg CO2 eq is sequestered into the soil. With the suite of improved farming practices, wheat takes up more CO2 from the atmosphere than is actually emitted during its production.Nov 18, 2014 https://www.nature.com › articles Improving farming practices reduces…
NYT: Carbon Customers
Price of 2.9 tons of carbon for your flight to Hawaii? About $700
WSU Bread Lab
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Glacial Till Granola
Glacial Till Cereal
NYTimes: The Mediterranean Diet
The Mediterranean Diet Really Is That Good for You. Here’s Why. https://nyti.ms/3WPWWb7 Note the whole grains …
NYTimes: Noma, Rated the World’s Best Restaurant, Is Closing Its Doors
Noma, Rated the World’s Best Restaurant, Is Closing Its Doors https://nyti.ms/3GQgMgQ
Ginger Snaps
Bucking the Sun Pizza Flour
“Intentional Farming with Conservation Grains”
Driving north from Bozeman to Choteau, the easternmost stretches of Montana’s Rockies casually release from their bouldered inclines and winding passes into a gentler landscape. From Helena onward for 100 miles, vast blankets of cropland and pastures softly billow and ease into the coulees and creeks leisurely shaping the north country. The journey is a surrender to subtler views, a submission to not getting anywhere anytime soon. Choteau itself is bound in all directions by this same expanse. But just miles east of town, amid swathes of predominantly conventionally farmed land, sits a small acreage revered and maintained a bit differently by its owners.
A regenerative Montana meat company | Medium
… “I think we really get wrapped around the wrong axles in the whole regenerative agriculture movement. It’s not just about better practices in a vacuum, it’s about a food system built to sustain those practices.” https://medium.com/@danmiller_steward/old-salt-c903035ed90f
100% Wholegrain Pie Crust
Old & Ancient Flour
Rustic Chard Tart
Old & Ancient Flour Buckwheat Flour
Warhorse Country Bread
Warhorse Hard Red Winter Wheat
Warhorse Thin Crust Pizza
Warhorse Hard Red Winter Wheat
Warhorse Hamburger Buns
Warhorse Hard Red Winter Wheat
Flour Storage Container
OXO Good Grips POP Container, Food Storage, 4 Qt https://a.co/d/5vfFdjY
Watch “First Day of Swathing Wheat 2022! Montana Harvest” on YouTube
First Day of Swathing Wheat 2022! Montana Harvest: https://youtu.be/NqJPE7EO3aA
NYTimes: Unearthing the Secret Superpowers of Fungus
Unearthing the Secret Superpowers of Fungus https://nyti.ms/3zd1c9Y
Rye & Strawberry Tart
Hazlet Rye | Rymin Rye
Wild Crumb Bakery, Bozeman MT
Where to find . . .
Rhubarb Streusel Cake
Old & Ancient Flour
Wheatsome & Masa Tortillas
Wheatsome Flour
Stella’s Pfannkuchen
Old & Ancient Flour
Wheatsome Morning Muffins
Wheatsome Flour | also, Molly’s Hard Red Spring Wheat Flour
Cinnamon & Spring Pull-Apart Rolls
Sprouted Spring Wheat Flour
Salted Chocolate Rye Cookies
Big Sky Rye Flour P. S. Our favorite organic chocolate to use for this recipe is made by Equal Exchange Chocolates … Bittersweet Chocolate Chips-70% cacao and their Baking Cocoa.
Bucking the Sun Pan Pizza
Bucking the Sun Pizza Flour
Tilly Bread
Glacial Till Cereal | Bucking the Sun Flour
Summer Cobbler
Last Best Pancake Flour
Regenerative Honey | Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2022/05/09/in-the-face-of-numerous-threats-bees-are-producing-less-honey/ On our farm, where we attempt to farm regeneratively, a third of the farm has been planted in shelter belts with flowering shrubs and pollinator-friendly cover. Each year a local beekeeper brings his hives there for the summer.
Gut Health, from National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/whats-up-with-the-bacteria-in-your-gut?rid=78D51AF7E514CC4C0676BCE041149811&cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Health_20220506_Control
Farming in Ukraine
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Baking thoughts
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Order WHOLE BERRIES for milling
More whole grains and grain blends now available to home millers. https://conservationgrains.com/order-wholeberries/
Healthy Soils Act
A Prophet Of Soil Gets His Moment Of Fame https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/11/895765991/a-prophet-of-soil-gets-his-moment-of-fame?sc=18&f=1001
Pandemic Demand for Grains, 5/13/20
News > COVID-19 > Grain May 13, 2020 | Financial Post Pandemic Eating Sparks Demand for Canadian Wheat Red lentil prices also soar, jumping 76% in past six weeks A surge in takeout pizza orders, baking and pantry stockpiling has created an unexpected “burst in demand” for Canadian wheat and lentils, as restaurants remain shuttered and…
NY Times Sourdough Bread Recipe
Link to NYT Sourdough Bread Recipe Tested, photographed and recommended by a North Carolina customer baking with Wheatsome Flour! The recipe also has helpful information about maintaining a sourdough starter. Remember: sourdough loves rye.
Microbes and sourdough and you
Inside the science of sourdough bread December 19, 2018 / Rob Dunn
Baking healthy bread at Livingston Food Resource Center …
Conservation Grains is so proud to be a supplier for this non-profit, community bakery.
There’s a better way than this!
Dr. Stephen Jones, WSU Bread Lab, makes the point that we can increase global wheat production by 30% today–by eating whole grains. No GMOs needed.
Wild Crumb Bakery
This much loved bakery in Bozeman, MT, uses our freshly milled organic hard red spring wheat in their whole wheat bread. Go to Wild Crumb Bakery
Breaking Bread with Stella Moss
“Flour that sits on a shelf is a dead product. We have no connection to it, to where it came from. With Ole and Conservations Grains, you know the people behind each step of breadmaking. I want to bring that connection back to people.” –Stella Moss Edible Bozeman, Issue No. 2 – Fall 2019 by…
Malted Wheat Sourdough Bread
from the Perfect Loaf website With great information about malted grains.
Sourdough – Public Science Lab
What’s in your sourdough? This fascinating article is about the lives and times of sourdough starters, sent to me by Stella @stella_bread.
Stella’s Bread
Stella’s Bread Made in Bozeman MT with Old & Ancient Flour from the Front!
Now at Max’s Market!
Flour from the Front can be found at . . . Max’s Market in Bigfork MT View this post on Instagram It is all about healthy living… – – – #healthylivingtips #connectwithnature #loseyourmindandfindyoursoul #wildernesstherapy #optoutdoors #eatlocalgrown #eatlocallygrown #bigforkmt #visitmontana #montanamoments #lesswaste #wasteless #buyfreshbuylocal #bigfork #freshfoods #specialtyshop #gnp #montanalove #wellnessforall #liveclean #maxsmarketmt #optoutdoors #montanalife #flatheadvalley #bigforkmontana…
Mrs. W’s Old & Ancient with Einkorn
The einkorn is from Italy and that did it for Mary Frances! . . . Flour from the Front is now in Polson at Mrs. Wonderful’s Marmalade Cafe View this post on Instagram Mornings at Mrs. Wonderful's. Dough proofing before baking. #nofilter #bakery #madewithlove #polson #cafe #organic #montana #bread #mrswonderful #wonderful #flatheadlake #comfortfood #goodfood #earlymorning…
Old & Ancient at 2Js
View this post on Instagram Milled this morning and @2jsfreshmarket this afternoon. Now that's fresh! … Our delivery includes "Old & Ancient," the new blend of organic spelt and Kamut. I'll be making another all O&A pie crust this weekend to see if that old pie-magic can happen twice.🤞 A post shared by Conservation Grains…
Roundup Going South
“How GMO Seeds and Monsanto/Bayer’s Roundup are Driving US Policy in Venezuela,” by Whitney Webb, Mint Press News
Montana wheat farmers wouldn’t have to worry about trade deals if we all stepped up — and ate 400 loaves of bread a day
400 Loaves, by Kristen Inbody for the Great Falls Tribune https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2019/04/15/trump-trade-war-hit-montana-top-industry-agriculture-japan-china/3289497002/
Flour in Livingston MT!
View this post on Instagram Sometimes a gift card can seem impersonal . . . but the gift of healthy food is as personal as it gets. Maybe this card could give someone a little diet boost they've been looking for. Produce galore, local meat, nicely cultured dairy or heck, maybe even deodorant that doesn't…
Don’t Call it Dirt!
View this post on Instagram There are so many ways to celebrate the Easter basket tradition with your children without resorting to the peeps🙄😊 This educational coloring book by one of their school mates Maloi Lannan @barneycreeklivestock would be a treat for any age. I could try to tell her story . . . But…
Flour in Great Falls
2Js Market in Great Falls in now carrying Flour from the Front! Go to 2Js Market, Great Falls
Conserving Soil
View this post on Instagram This morning, I hooked up our flatbed trailer to go pick up some rye. Walking back to the truck I noticed the difference between our neighbor's field, pictured on the left, and our field. His was a lot easier to walk through. His field with low stubble was showing dirt…
April = Shelterbelts
View this post on Instagram April 2010: Planting shelterbelts. Today these saplings are over our heads and used year-round by wildlife, large and microscopic. Thanks Sarah and Becky! A post shared by Conservation Grains (@conservationgrains) on Apr 18, 2019 at 7:46pm PDT
Gulch Distillery wins with gin!
Gulch Guardian Gin Wins Silver – Helena Independent Record, 4/14/2019 And guess where they buy their wheat! As a big fan of a Guardian Gin dirty martini, I love it that the grain comes from our farm in Choteau. Cheers to Steffen and Tyrrell! Go to Gulch Distillers, Helena MT
From NPR News
‘Cultured’: A Look At How Foods Can Help The Microbes Inside Us Thrive https://n.pr/2XgWMLB
Recipe: Wheatsome Sablés
Warning sign: Truly too good Wheatsome Sablé Cookies This recipe originated with Chad Robertson’s 50/50 Sablé Cookies in Tartine Book Nº 3. I love almonds and chocolate, plus I had some Plum Good Currant Jam from the farm, so these are my two variations on the Tartine recipe. I’ve cut his recipe in half. Made on…
The Brix score: Sugar and Minerals
“Plants with higher brix readings are more resilient to disease and insect attack.” –from The Conscious Farmer website Go to their website to read more about: Brix scores are indicative of plant health and healthy food.
Recipe: CG’s Ginger Snaps
Flour with a bit of buckwheat
Cookies with a crack of pepper
About Those Bags
The Truth About Compostable Coffee Bags Our CG bags are constructed with the Earth First film and can either be recycled or (as it turns out) partially composted after the tin tie is removed. We’re not sure about the labels, however, and will report here when we know more.
The Right Kind of Flour
The Right Kind of Flour Filmed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival Dr. Stephen S. Jones, Director Stephen Jones is a wheat breeder and the Director of the The Bread Lab. Stephen has a PhD in Genetics from the University of California at Davis and teaches graduate courses in advanced classical genetics and in the…
Recipe: Overnight Country Bread
“Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast” by Ken Forkish guided the development of our Flour from the Front blends. Starting with the Overnight Country Brown recipe on page 173, using no commercial yeast, we inversed the amount of white flour and whole grain flour in the final dough to make beautiful loaves. Our original sourdough starter (levain)…
Book by David Montgomery
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life https://g.co/kgs/ddkVqZ
Water infiltration demo
June 2018, NRCS Field Day at Spring Coulee Farm … The rainfall simulator sprays 5 trays of soil from different cultivation practices. The jars in front hold runoff water; the back row of jars show the water that has been able to move through the soil. Our SCF soil tray is on the far right…
Gulch Distillery
View this post on Instagram Made by Gulch Distillery for Gay Pride Week using currants from Spring Coulee Farm. Gulch is now also using our Conservation Grains winter wheat to make wonderful gin and vodka. We're proud! A post shared by Conservation Grains (@conservationgrains) on Dec 26, 2018 at 6:03pm PST
Sam’s cooking again
“Got your lovely flour. So many thanks! Promptly put it to work. And…that’s a braided venison tenderloin ala Seven Fires, coated in crushed olives and anchovies. Jolly Holly!”
First Flax
This is Spring Coulee Farm’s first flax crop. It was beautiful, and a good rotation crop following spring wheat. We harvested it with a stripper header, leaving those tenacious, gnarly flax stalks standing in the field this winter to catch snow and provide cover and food for the pheasants.
Gabe Brown: The Carbon Cowboy
Could Our Farms Become the World’s Great Untapped Carbon Sink? | NRDC
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