GRAINS
Fairhaven Mill, Bellingham, WA. www.fairhavenflour.com, 90 miles.
- Wheat, rye, rice, oat, buckwheat, soy flour, cornmeal. Only rye is sourced from farms in Washington. See website for sources of other flours. Available: online, many grocery stores.
Bluebird Grain Farms, Winthrop, WA. www.bluebirdgrainfarms.com: 116 mi.
- Emmer/farro, white & red wheat, rye, flaxseed, all organic. Whole grains, flours, cereal blends and pancake mixes. Available: U-District FM, Ballard FM, online
Lentz Spelt, Marlin, WA. www.lentzspelt.com, 158 mi.
- Emmer/farro, spelt. Whole grains, flours, pancake mixes. Available: Pike Place Market at Simply the Best, online, some stores.
Stone-Buhr Flour, Spokane, WA. www.stone-buhr.com, 229 miles.
- Montana grown all-purpose wheat flour (how many miles to Montana on top of the miles to Spokane?). Available: Fred Meyer, QFC, Safeway, Albertsons, Larry’s Market, other independent grocers.
Most local bakeries use Montana-grown wheat.
Stone-Buhr Flour is milled from Montana-grown grain.
Actually, there is a new Stone-Buhr all-purpose flour grown in the NW – primarily Washington — that uses Shepherd’s Grain certified sustainable wheat. Shepherds Grain is a group of Columbia Plateau farmers who use no-till farming practices that help conserve soil and water as well as helping to keep carbon trapped in the soil that would normally be released into the atmosphere through tilling.
The new flour is available at QFC, Safeway, TOP Food-Haggen, Metropolitan Markets and Town and Country Markets.