Interesting Reads – Conservation Grains

A biocide: Paraquat

https://civileats.com/2023/03/22/paraquat-the-deadliest-chemical-in-us-agriculture-goes-on-trial/?utm_source=Verified+CE+list&utm_campaign=01d33b44c0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_7_3_2018_8_13_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aae5e4a315-01d33b44c0-294310313

Bags and Labels

https://elevatepackaging.com/blog/compostable-packaging-life-cycle/?mc_cid=f818d51be1&mc_eid=f409c4ad7a

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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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

A Mass Extinction Is Taking Place in the Human Gut | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/microbiota-vault/

“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.

The N Fix

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2022/12/20/deadly-dirty-indispensable-the-nitrogen-industry-has-changed-the-world?utm_content=article-link-5&etear=nl_today_5&utm_campaign=r.the-economist-today&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=12/23/2022&utm_id=1430163

The Sourdough Microbiome

https://asm.org/Articles/2020/June/The-Sourdough-Microbiome

Feeding a smaller sourdough starter …

https://www.theperfectloaf.com/keeping-a-smaller-sourdough-starter-to-reduce-waste/?ck_subscriber_id=1494754200&utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%F0%9F%8D%9E+Smaller+is…+better%3F%20-%205004603 Note: we use 25/75 white flour and Big Sky Rye.

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

Recent Developments in Wheat Breeding | AgWeb

https://www.agweb.com/opinion/recent-developments-wheat-breeding

Flour Storage Container

OXO Good Grips POP Container, Food Storage, 4 Qt https://a.co/d/5vfFdjY

Rgenerative Ag in Canada with General Mills

https://www.feedandgrain.com/news/general-mills-invests-2-3m-in-regenerative-agriculture

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

A Wild, Windy Spring Is Creating a Soil Erosion Nightmare for Farmers

Feed your gut bacteria: dirt and whole foods

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/whats-up-with-the-bacteria-in-your-gut

Regenerative Agriculture and Human Health | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2022/05/10/ergothioneine-regenerative-agriculture-longetive-soil-health-bionutrients-crops-producing-farming-human-health/

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.

Fresh Flour, Amy Halloran

https://amyhalloran.substack.com/p/fresh-flour-facts?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNzMxNTE4MiwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTM3NjQ2ODIsIl8iOiJQRnRtKyIsImlhdCI6MTY1MTkzMzg5MSwiZXhwIjoxNjUxOTM3NDkxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTA0NjMyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.BA8bif1SwWxWaMhVJMqdnrmP4hxrr1igyqAZoyClReM&s=r

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

As Dollar Stores Proliferate, Some Communities Push Back | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2022/04/13/dollar-stores/

On the Ground in Ukraine With World Central Kitchen | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2022/03/11/on-the-ground-in-ukraine-with-world-central-kitchen/

Relocating farmland could turn back clock twenty years on carbon emissions, say scientists

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-relocating-farmland-clock-twenty-years.html

What Is the Future of Organic? | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2022/02/14/what-is-the-future-of-organic/

The world’s most unwanted plants help trees make more fruit

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-world-unwanted-trees-fruit.html

Mark Bittman: Whole Wheat Bread Is the Key to a Better Food System

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/opinion/culture/mark-bittman-whole-wheat-bread.html

Don Lewis Is Reviving the Grain Economy in New York’s Hudson Valley | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2021/10/25/don-lewis-is-reviving-the-grain-economy-in-new-yorks-hudson-valley/

Truly Regenerative Farming, in a Nutshell

https://www.ramblinfarmers.com/blog/regenerative-farming-in-a-nutshell

Inside Google’s regenerative agriculture play | Greenbiz

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/inside-googles-regenerative-agriculture-play

Canada Makes a Move to Conserve Wetlands and Store Carbon | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2021/07/30/canada-makes-a-move-to-conserve-wetlands-and-store-carbon/

Flour Power – YES! Magazine

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/building-bridges/2019/11/13/flour-power

Spring Wheat Crop Quality Tumbles, Some Farmers Abandon Fields | AgWeb

https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/wheat/spring-wheat-crop-quality-tumbles-some-farmers-abandon-fields

Common Ground: “Soil is our livelihood and we better protect it, or we’re screwed.”

https://montanafreepress.org/2021/07/06/regenerative-agriculture-evitalizing-rural-montana-economies/

Farming without disturbing soil could cut agriculture’s climate impact by 30% – new research

https://theconversation.com/farming-without-disturbing-soil-could-cut-agricultures-climate-impact-by-30-new-research-157153

Reduction of phytic acid and enhancement of bioavailable micronutrients in food grains

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4325021/

Troubleshooting Sourdough: Your Questions Answered • The Prairie Homestead

https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2020/04/sourdough-troubleshooting.html

Food supplements that alter gut bacteria could ‘cure’ malnutrition | Science | AAAS

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/food-supplements-alter-gut-bacteria-could-cure-malnutrition

How to Properly Store Flour

https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-to-store-flour-1389337

Op-ed: After the Pandemic Flour Craze, Micro-Millers Take Stock | Civil Eats

https://civileats.com/2021/03/19/the-dust-has-settled-on-the-pandemic-baking-trend-did-it-reshape-regional-grain-economies/

COVID-19 will likely be with us forever. Here’s how we’ll live with it.

https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/2021/01/covid-19-will-likely-be-with-us-forever-heres-how-well-live-with-it

A healthy microbiome builds a strong immuneh system that could help defeat COVID-19

https://theconversation.com/a-healthy-microbiome-builds-a-strong-immune-system-that-could-help-defeat-covid-19-145668

A Guide to Common Wheat Flours | Serious Eats

https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/07/wheat-flour-guide.html

Does Flour Go Bad? Here’s What to Know about Different Types – PureWow

https://www.purewow.com/food/does-flour-go-bad

How King Arthur’s Supply Chain Overcame the 2020 Quarantine Flour ‘Shortage’ – Eater

https://www.eater.com/22178960/king-arthur-flour-supply-chain-baking-boom

New glyphosate papers point to “urgency” for more research on chemical impact to human health – U.S. Right to Know

https://usrtk.org/pesticides/new-glyphosate-papers-point-to-urgency-for-more-research-on-chemical-impact-to-human-health/

Warren Buffett Says You Can Increase Your Overall Happiness by Making 1 Simple Choice | Inc.com

https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/warren-buffett-says-you-can-increase-your-overall-happiness-by-making-1-simple-choice.html

Community Based Foods

https://montanafreepress.org/2020/08/21/community-based-food-processors-make-montana-food-resilient/

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.