Grain and Seed CSA Grinding Party

Grain, grain, and more grain.

Last Saturday, Court, Willa, and I traveled West of the divide, to deliver our grains and seeds to a handful of our shareholders. The roads were icy and the pass a bit hairy, but our little car was loaded down with nearly 1,000 pounds of grain, so our back tires stuck to the road.

We brought our hand-crank grain grinder (called a GrainMaker made by a Stevensville, Montana company) so folks could turn some of their share into whole flour.


Grinding Sonora wheat into flour.

We made some lentil-barley soup, emmer salad, green salad with barley and wheat sprouts, and whole wheat sourdough Sonora wheat bread. It was noted that this was probably the most grain anybody had ever eaten in one sitting.


Eating a dinner full of grains.

All in all, I'd say this inaugural year for our Grain and Seed CSA was a big success. Our lentils weren't as clean as I'd like and we weren't able to dehull the black barley in time for delivery, but seeing the tidy bags of grains and legumes on the table, knowing what we went through to get to this point, and knowing we're giving our shareholders high-quality, nutritious staple foods, made us proud.


Emmer.


Crimson Lentil.