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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

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

A Mass Extinction Is Taking Place in the Human Gut

To preserve humankind’s diverse bacteria, scientists are harvesting, freezing, and storing poop from around the world.

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

Feeding a Smaller Sourdough Starter

Note: use 25/75 white flour and Big Sky Rye.

A Regenerative Montana Meat Company

… “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

Rgenerative Ag in Canada with General Mills

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

May 19, 2025.

I so appreciate being able to buy such wonderful, thoughtfully produced grains from you, and use them almost daily in some form, whether it be pancakes, bread, pasta, muffins, etc.

Meg E.

May 12, 2025.

Just a quick note to say how much I and my bread nerd buddies have enjoyed the pumpernickel flour. Even using it in combination with standard bread flour and a bit of other whole wheat flours, the distinctive rye flavor comes through strongly. The texture is very nice and chewy and it’s a joy to bake with. Many thanks once again to Conservation Grains, especially in these ‘interesting times’!

Ellie & Orion H.

January 17, 2025.

I just wanted to tell you how much I love baking with Snowgoose, it's my favorite so far. Wow does it create the most beautiful color, and I've started blending it with a coarse-ground semolina and it makes the best match.

Tami T.

May 17, 2025.

Thank you so much for your recommendations...I have been baking sourdough bread with your Old and Ancient. This flour has been a game changer for me. I am so grateful to Jen with Rustic Sourdough who recommended You and your flour. Also am excited to know I can try baking sandies with this flour, yay! Thank you for your recipe. This delights me!

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