Sunday, December 5, 2010

Let us now praise the Westwind Milling Company of Argentine Michigan, a postmodern food business in the old Wolcott Mill.

My father and I picked up our chicken feed from the Wolcott Mill.
Heck, I think my mother bought her chicks from here. Then the mill
went dark until after I had graduated from college. Even the mill's
water rights transfered to the homeowner association of Lobdell Lake.
A couple met and fell in love and decided to run the milling machinery
by fuel, and she sold off her organic farm and herb opearation. It's a
nexus of the farm to table community in Genessee County. Today, a
local is selling Christmas trees just cut down in Michigan; many are
trucked in from Oregon. Just a few months ago, I saw that Earthly
Kneads in Muskegon MI had Westwind Milling Company Grain on the
shelves; Earthly Kneads once used the mill exclusively, but
transportation to Muskegon is expensive. Westwind now sells its flour
to the Henry Ford, which bakes special breads with it' like Hobo
Bread. Next on the docket is a gluten free milling and baking line,
with an isolated store to sell the baked goods. So if you have good
rice, sorghum or garbonzo beans to mill, give them a call. I'm known
here, so when I found a fresh 20 in the parking lot, I turned it in to
the lady of the house. Just that kind of place. There's Beloved Books
in the back, where you can supply your home schooling efforts. The
husband of the business is a talented painter who knocks of Monet and
Degas images, hung in back.

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