Getting Grains Closer to Home
I’ve long had this thought that cutting down grass and having a lawn in general is a really odd thing to do. Grass is food and if you let it grow it produces something that we all eat a whole lot of – wheat. I want to grow useful grass in my yard. I want to cut it two or three times a season and we can play on the ‘grass’ for a couple weeks after we cut it. There is a field near my childhood home where a community baseball game occurs three times a year after the hay is cut down. So cool.
Anyway aside from swapping all my conventional grass for barley, spelt and millet I thought some others might like a local source of flours and whole grains.
Fieldstone Granary is located in Armstrong and is the only organic grain grower that I am aware of. I did at one time have information on a spelt and wheat grower in Kaslo, I will have to dig that up for you.
