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
Tag: Know Your Miller
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.
Flour Power – YES! Magazine
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/building-bridges/2019/11/13/flour-power
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/
Cleaning Rymin Rye grown in Montana
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CPpTzwmnUc-/?utm_medium=share_sheet
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/
Wheatsome Sablés
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.
Water Infiltration Demonstration
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…
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!”