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Local Flour Breakthrough!!!

 

Read more about the Local Flour Breakthrough on our blog.

9/9/2009

Hi Robin,

Well, talk about last minute… I just pulled some perfectly good bread from the oven, and it was made ENTIRELY FROM LOCAL WHEAT GROWN AT AURORA FARMS IN CHARLOTTE, VT!!!

For the third year running, Tom Kenyon at Aurora attempted to grow wheat for us. The first two years did not produce results that were fit for milling, but this year we struck it rich. His 30 acre plot yielded 1500 bushels of wheat that had promising lab test results. Last week Tom brought 4000 lbs. of this wheat over to Champlain Valley Mills to be milled into white bread flour. I picked the flour up a couple of days ago and, having baked with it, I have to say that I am absolutely giddy!

This opens up a world of possibilities for us. Tom has enough of this wheat to produce about 60,000 lbs. of flour, so I’m beginning to work on what our year-round 100% local bread will be.

In the mean time, I want to let all the those taking the localvore challenge know that we’re ready to make bread entirely from Vermont wheat—and this time there will be no disclaimer because there doesn’t need to be one!

Tomorrow I will be contacting Hunger Mt. Co-op and City Market, but unlike in the last couple of years, if any localvore groups want to do a special order, we can accommodate that too.

Randy George

Red Hen Baking Company

How Can You Get This Bread?

Given the short time that we have before the Challenge it is difficult to get this special bread into any of the normal sales outlets so we have made a special arrangement with The Green Cup in Waitsfield to sell preordered bread on Tuesday, September 15th.  You can also purchase the bread at the Red Hen Cafe in Middlesex next Tuesday and Wednesday (September 15 and 16).

Please click the button below to preorder your bread. 

The bread will be $4 a loaf and must be paid for and picked up at The Green Cup by 1:30pm on Tuesday, September 15th or it will be sold to others who have not preordered.  The Green Cup closes at 2pm on Tuesday and will be closed Wednesday and Thursday.  There may be a very small quantity of bread that is not already spoken for available for sale that day.

Orders must be in by Sunday night - September 13th.

Sorry, orders are no longer being taken.


   

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