Luke Peterson and A-Frame Farm is the definition of the kind of farmer / operation that we believe is the future of regenerative agriculture and sustainable food production.
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A-Frame Farm
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Ramona Farms
Says Ramona Button: “I am excited to share the food traditions of my tribe, the Akimel O’Odham (Gila River Pima) Community. My people have lived and farmed in this desert region for centuries. I am happy to be able to invite you to try the foods from my farm and from my tradition. Ramona’s American …
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Bluebird Grain Farms
At Bluebird Grain Farms our goal is to cultivate and mill the most irresistible, nutrient-rich ancient grains we can while leaving this land healthier for the next generation.
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Sustainability
In 2022 we completed the installation of a large solar power array allowing us to generate 100% of our electricity needs with sustainable solar power.
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Ben Penner Farms
Ben Penner started his organic farm in Belle Plaine, MN in 2011 after a career in academic publishing with the idea that local, organic wheat flour was a huge missing link in the sustainable food chain. His farm’s mission is to inspire human flourishing through agriculture and he works to fulfill that mission through experimentation with production practices such as no-till and cover crops and by developing local markets for new organic products on 80 acres of rented land in Belle Plaine, LeSueur and Henderson, MN.
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Tom Luhrs Family Farm
Tom Luhrs has been one of Breadtopia’s principal suppliers of heirloom wheats since 2018. The Luhrs Family Farm is located on the High Plains of western Nebraska with rich silt loam soils known to produce some of the best quality grain and pulse crops in the world.
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Long Term Grain Storage
To be perfectly honest, at Breadtopia, we’re not exactly hands-on experts at long term grain storage. We do store large volumes of many different grains, but because we have a lot of turnover we never have any given shipment of grain sitting in our warehouse for more than a few months. But because we get asked about it all the time, we’ve compiled a page with some resources.
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ThanksGIVEAWAY 2021
For thanksgiving 2021, we’re giving away THREE of our new Breadtopia Hearth Bakers.
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Breadtopia Sourdough Thanksgiving Feast
Breadtopia family Thanksgiving meals are usually pretty heavy on sourdough leavened… well, nearly everything but the turkey, and we thought it would be nice to formally assemble many of our favorite Thanksgiving meal accompaniments in one place.
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Giveaway: 10 Signed Copies of Sourdough Cookbook for Beginners
Giving away 10 signed copies of our brand new Sourdough Cookbook for Beginners.
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Newbie’s Guide to Flour for Bread Baking
Understanding the differences between the various types of flour that are used to bake bread can mean the difference between an airy, lofty loaf of bread and a dense, un-risen “frisbee”.
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Documentary: Real Bread Bakers
By a special arrangement with documentary filmmaker Zev Robinson, Breadtopia is excited to make Zev’s latest film, Real Bread Bakers, available for an exclusive, free “screening” on our site throughout the weekend of June 6 and 7.
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Introducing the Mockmill Professional Line
When it comes to the freshness of flour – for both flavor and nutritional reasons – my practice is simple: I virtually always mill my own flour at home for every loaf.
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ThanksGIVEAWAY 2018
In celebration of the Breadtopia baking community, this year’s Thanksgiveaway is a brand new Emile Henry Italian Loaf Baker along with an oblong proofing basket with liner.
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Eric’s Sourdough Waffles
I still marvel at how anything this simple and easy can be so good. Herein lies the magic. Start with great ingredients and let nature, in the form of wild yeast and time, do its thing.
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Uuni 3 Pizza Oven Giveaway
And then the one old guy said to the other, “You know, we haven’t given anything away on the site for a while.” And the second old guy said, “Yeah, that’s true.” First guy: “Maybe we should give away a pizza oven.” Second guy: “Yeah, let’s do that.”
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Artisan Style Gluten Free Bread
I had given up on baking good gluten free bread at home until I found this gluten free bread flour mix. This one uses no gums, doesn’t require eggs, and allows you to make a crusty artisan style loaf of bread that comes as close as I’ve experienced to regular wheat bread.
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ThanksGIVEAWAY 2017
Giving away a new Mockmill 100 Grain Mill One of the things that we are most grateful for this year is the growth in our Breadtopia community forum. Reading through all the success stories, seeing all the great photos in the Baker’s Gallery, the creativity in Reader Recipes, and especially all the friendly help freely given …
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Whole Grain Challah
My latest bread obsession involves trying to convert normally all white flour recipes to healthy and tasty whole grain versions while maintaining the light and soft texture typical of the originals. This challah recipe does the trick for me.
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Mockmill 100 Speed Test
Jade Koyle of einkorn.com clocks einkorn berries through a Mockmill 100 grain mill.
First shipment of Mockmills will be arriving in a day or two. Yay!
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Gluten-free Free
There is an increasing body of evidence that (aside from Celiac disease) many of the health issues related to eating wheat and gluten are more specifically related to the consumption of modern wheat processed via a roller mill into white flour and baked through a very rapid, mechanized process utilizing commercial yeast.
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Breadtopia wins SAVEUR’s Best How-To Food Blog Award
WINNERS ANNOUNCED: First Prize: Kim H. Second Prize: Susan H. Third Prize: Valerie T. Congratulations Kim, Susan, and Valerie and thanks to all the Breadtopians, old and new, who entered the drawing. On Spetember 27, SAVEUR magazine named Breadtopia as the Reader’s Choice Winner of their annual Best How-To Food Blog for 2016. ! The only response …
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Emile Henry Giveaway [Aug 2016]
WINNER ANNOUNCED: Suzanne O. from Ithaca, NY. Congratulations Suzanne and thanks to all the Breadtopians, old and new, who entered the drawing. In his book My Bread, Jim Lahey, the godfather of no knead baking, writes – “I confess, though, that my favorite pot is probably the most expensive option, the all ceramic Emile Henry. The …
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Breadtopia Named Finalist in SAVEUR’s 2016 Blog Awards
Update September 27: Yow, we won! Huge thanks to everyone who voted for Breadtopia. Truly an honor to be recognized for doing what we love doing. And also a giant thanks to SAVEUR for hosting these annual awards. I’m very pleased to announce that once again this year, from a pool of over 30,000 submissions, Breadtopia …
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