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Heritage Grains Workshop upcoming
The owners of a successful Creston-based food company, Treasure Life Flour Mills, will be conducting a workshop on Heritage Grains Saturday, Nov. 8.
Treasure Life Flour Mills owners Ben and Claudia will host a workshop from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Lion’s Hall on Highway 93/95 at Invermere.
This free presentation from Treasure Life Flour Mills will introduce to you to locally grown Ancient, Landrace, Heirloom, and Heritage organic grains.
Learn more about categorizing these grains and the general evolution of wheat leading to current. Learn a few suggestions of how to select and use these grains for cereals, pasty, baking at home or in your business. No registration required, just show up!
After many years working in the oil industry, Ben returned to his Agricultural background. Claudia is from Argentina and holds a PhD in Geo Sciences.
Over six years this strong team has revived lost grains and will continue to expand these unique varieties into commercial quantities.
Growers from Creston started out with very small quantities of pure seed, some of which had been extinct for 100 years; the seed collection has expanded to 200 varieties. Extinct grains were first propagated in small garden plots for observation and testing. Certain varieties were selected and continue to be propagated until the farm now has 500 acres of organic grain being grown (organic certification pending).
Treasure Life is currently expanding on cleaning, milling flour, rolling and mixing flour.
Treasure Life currently supplies ‘Kootenay Country Craft Distillery’ with an Heirloom wheat, which has won them an international Gold Medal for their Vodka from the Beverage Tasting Institute (BTI) of Chicago.
The workshop is being resented by: The Windermere and District Farmers’ Institute; Imagine Invermere Committee; and Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce.
Imagine Invermere Committee,
