Baking With Whole Grains —
It has been rewarding to grow a variety of grains at Full Belly Farm, some to be fed to our livestock and some to sell to our customers. We grow wheat, corn and barley and sell them all in their whole kernel form as well as ground into flour. We have a small stone mill and have been processing the whole grains into flour in small batches, as needed. Freshly milled whole grains are known to be a great improvement over highly processed flours that have had their nutrients and fiber removed. High levels of starchy processed food in the western diet have been linked to several chronic diseases, especially diabetes, cardiovascular disease and colon-cancer. [Read more…]
