I found them!!! Beans +Flour
Two regularly used items in our diet have been found. Thanks to other bloggers[Marc + Tea] for posting them on your sites.
Local flour->Full Belly Farm : www.fullbellyfarm.com
I emailed them to see how to order if not part of their csa. They carry wheat flour every week at the berkeley farmer's market on tuesdays. I'll be there tomorrow.
Full Belly Wheat Products
Full Belly grows Sonora and Federation wheat. Sonora is a light wheat, and Federation is a light red wheat. Full Belly flour is wonderful in cookies, cakes, and pancakes. For a successful bread add a small amount (up to 8% to achieve the ideal protein content of 14-15%) vital wheat gluten flour, too. A small amount of enzyme active barley or wheat malt (0.3% of the total flour) will also improve bread. Sprouting the wheat will create the same effect as a purchased enzyme or malt. The wheat is ground on a stone mill grinder that preserves the bran and wheat germ. Sonora wheat was brought to California by Spanish missionaries and grown in and around the missions circa 1820. It was grown in Sonora, Mexico in the 1770's.
Fresh, stone-ground whole wheat flour. Sonora (soft, white variety) or Federation (semi-hard variety) in bags of any size at $1.00 per pound: 2-pound, 5-pound or 10-pounds.
Wheat berries for soups and cereals (or sprouting for wheat grass!), also in 2-pound, 5-pound or 10-pound bags at $1.00 per pound.
Local Beans: Rancho Gordo in Napa http://www.ranchogordo.com/
Rainbow Grocery and Ferry Building Farmer's Market both carry them. Check their website for other locations...I'll be picking up some next time in SF
Woo Hoo!!!!
Local flour->Full Belly Farm : www.fullbellyfarm.com
I emailed them to see how to order if not part of their csa. They carry wheat flour every week at the berkeley farmer's market on tuesdays. I'll be there tomorrow.
Full Belly Wheat Products
Full Belly grows Sonora and Federation wheat. Sonora is a light wheat, and Federation is a light red wheat. Full Belly flour is wonderful in cookies, cakes, and pancakes. For a successful bread add a small amount (up to 8% to achieve the ideal protein content of 14-15%) vital wheat gluten flour, too. A small amount of enzyme active barley or wheat malt (0.3% of the total flour) will also improve bread. Sprouting the wheat will create the same effect as a purchased enzyme or malt. The wheat is ground on a stone mill grinder that preserves the bran and wheat germ. Sonora wheat was brought to California by Spanish missionaries and grown in and around the missions circa 1820. It was grown in Sonora, Mexico in the 1770's.
Fresh, stone-ground whole wheat flour. Sonora (soft, white variety) or Federation (semi-hard variety) in bags of any size at $1.00 per pound: 2-pound, 5-pound or 10-pounds.
Wheat berries for soups and cereals (or sprouting for wheat grass!), also in 2-pound, 5-pound or 10-pound bags at $1.00 per pound.
Local Beans: Rancho Gordo in Napa http://www.ranchogordo.com/
Rainbow Grocery and Ferry Building Farmer's Market both carry them. Check their website for other locations...I'll be picking up some next time in SF
Woo Hoo!!!!
posted by Paul Ferguson @ 9:11 AM
3 Comments:
At 1:15 PM,
bunni bunnz said…
oh like i really give a flying fuk about your stoopid pants and your boring boringboringboring boring xistenz!!!!! NOT!
At 8:09 AM,
Elizabeth said…
I can share your excitement, because I'm on the same search in the Pacific Northwest. I KNOW wheat, beans, oats, rye, barley, and corn are grown here--but I can't get my hands on them...who will sell a reasonable amount for my family(between 5 and 50 pounds) at a reasonable price? So far, from that list, I can find soft white wheat (I want hard as well); beans (garbanzo only!) and rye, all from Azure Farms. I had to call them to find out what they grow themselves and what they source from out of state....I have about a dozen emails out to farmers and distributors, who so far don't even bother to reply. Apparently individual locavores are small potatoes in their world!
At 4:41 PM,
Julia said…
Great to find your blog. You might be interested in the local cooperative we've recently started here in the East Bay. It's The CoG, short for the Cooperative Grocery. Check it out: www.thecog.org.
We're just getting started, but we have 450 members and are running out of a warehouse on 67th & Hollis on the Emeryville/Berkeley border. We only mark our items up 21% above wholesale and we are focusing on local, sustainable products. Members work 2 1/2 hours a month so that we don't have to pay labor. Bulk foods will be in the store within the next month or so, and then refrigerated and produce. Right now, we're a drop-off site for Full Belly, and we do carry a pretty full line of their products (wheat in various sizes, wheat berries, almond butter when we can get it, dried fruit, nuts, etc.)
It just seems like this is the kind of place you should know about! Hope to see you down there.
all the best,
Julia
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