Off-Grid Grain Mill & Food Resilience
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Off-Grid Grain Mill & Food Resilience Workshop
Whole grains are one of the most shelf-stable, nutrient-dense foods available — but turning them into flour requires a mill. In this workshop, we'll explore several approaches to grinding grain without grid power, and learn about storing grains for long-term food resilience.
What You'll Learn
- Hand-powered milling: Using manual grain mills — what to look for, how they work, and how much effort it takes to produce flour for a meal
- Bike-powered milling: Converting pedal power into ground grain — a practical, human-scale approach to processing larger quantities
- Solar-electric milling: Powering an electric grain mill directly from a solar panel or battery system — bridging energy and food resilience
- Grain storage: Which grains store the longest, how to store them properly, and how to think about a household grain reserve
- From grain to table: We'll mill our own flour and use it to make pizza dough and tortillas on the spot
The Pizza & Tortilla Party
The best part of any food workshop is eating what you've made. We'll fire up an outdoor cooking setup and turn our fresh-milled flour into pizzas and tortillas — a fun, communal way to see the whole process from grain to plate.
Why Grain Milling?
Store-bought flour has a relatively short shelf life, but whole grains — wheat berries, corn, oats, rye — can last for years or even decades when stored correctly. Having the ability to mill your own flour means you can maintain a deep pantry of whole grains and process them as needed, a cornerstone of household food resilience.
Workshop Details
This workshop combines hands-on milling demonstrations with a shared meal. We'll compare the effort and output of different milling methods and discuss how to integrate grain storage into your household preparedness.
Suitable for all ages and experience levels. Kids especially enjoy the hands-on milling and pizza making.
Interested in this workshop? Let us know — we're gauging interest to schedule it.