No Pain, No Grain!

Dig us in Dirt!

Dirt Magazine, that is.

This article recently published in Dirt Magazine takes a good hard look at the challenges of rebuilding a grain economy here in the Northeast, and heavily features the work we do at River Valley Community Grains. It does a great job of illustrating the wins, the tricky parts, the vision to change the way we eat grains, and the many different people working hard to make it all happen in our neck of the woods.

“On a Wednesday morning in October, Larry Mahmarian cuts open a 25-pound bag of wheat, carries it up a rolling ladder and pours its contents into the hopper of a stone mill, which makes a noise like a giant vacuum as its four-foot granite stone whirs to life. . . .

It is at once a humble and monumentally ambitious project: three childhood friends with no background in food or farming have taken it upon themselves to jumpstart a local food economy by going all-in on grains, a couple thousand miles from the wheat belt.”

CLICK HERE to read the entire article. And thanks to Becca Tucker for coming out and learning what River Valley Community Grains is all about!