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
Category: Interesting Reads
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
“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
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
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
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
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.
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