The Carolina Farm Stewardship Association plans to create a North Carolina brand of organic bread flour and develop suppliers and market use in the farms and bakeries of North and South Carolina, according to a report in The Herald-Sun of Durham.
The nonprofit CFSA, based in Pittsboro, N.C., promotes a regional food system that serves consumers, farmers and businesses in the two Carolinas. It has received $80,000 from the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. to help establish the N.C.-brand flour and promote the business of organic farming regionally through its “Organic Farming Transition Project.”
— Nelda Holder, associate editor
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I am already using wheat that i planted last fall . It is a great idea to develop regional brand produce as long as it is not becoming some sort of exclusive agency owned label where you have to pay a fee to use .. More infos would be necessarry to the public .
Francois,
What type of wheat did you grow? Is it the hard wheat that is used in France for bread there? And where did you get your seed from?
I grew some organic grain from USA , but believe it or not i have some preserved grain from 1900 that i will plant , those seeds were more tasty than anything else you have tasted before . Ihave great pictures of my field this year ,and i believe that you have eaten some bread made with this batch , i would love for someone to talk about that more in depth …
I talked to Molly last year about my experiment and i believe she pushed it to a grant … Lets see how the label goes and what we really need is a mill and the system to go from grain to flour , automated sifters , a small productive chain where farmers could have their grain clean , sifted , milled and packaged .
130 thousand dollars should do it but what is the itemized plan for Buncombe ?
sorry, 80 000 will do it too…