Fritz Maytag, a Spring Mountain vintner and grandfather, was thrilled Friday morning as he and ranch manager Ed Ewing lugged 70 pounds of wheat, in two 5-gallon buckets, into the Bale Grist Mill. The ...

If you love to spend time in the kitchen, you know there is nothing quite as satisfying as fresh-baked bread. But how fresh is it, really, if you are using old flour? A grain mill is the perfect way ...

Mark Fischer surveys the boxes of organic Redeemer wheat sitting on the worn wood floorboards of his Castle Valley Mill, awaiting pickup. Like most of the grains Fischer cleans and grinds here on the ...

Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a three-part series on local grain economies. Part I covered the value consumers of local grain place on producers’ stories. Part III, describing the ...

ELMORE — As one of the oldest professions, grain-milling has undergone many revolutions over the years. The latest one is underway in a shed next to the bread bakery that Andrew Heyn and Blair Marvin ...

A central Michigan grain mill took its first round of specialty sustainable wheat to market this fall after Saginaw valley farmers harvested grain grown with techniques that benefit the climate and ...