Our Vision
Every region growing, processing, and marketing grains, beans, nuts, and oil seed that pay farmers and workers fairly, are sustainably grown and processed in the region, and equitably distributed to -schools, retailers, farmers markets, restaurants, bakeries, and community and school yard gardens.
Our Mission
To build a field-to-table model for regional scale sustainably grown, high nutrition grain and bean products that ensure Good Food For All! That means that while we are working to bring good, healthy food to those who are already part of the local food movement, it is even more important that we develop enterprise solutions to food access that guarantees good food for all.
88 Columbus Circle Athens, Ohio 45701 info@shagbarkmill.com
Every region growing, processing, and marketing grains, beans, nuts, and oil seed that pay farmers and workers fairly, are sustainably grown and processed in the region, and equitably distributed to -schools, retailers, farmers markets, restaurants, bakeries, and community and school yard gardens.
Our Mission
To build a field-to-table model for regional scale sustainably grown, high nutrition grain and bean products that ensure Good Food For All! That means that while we are working to bring good, healthy food to those who are already part of the local food movement, it is even more important that we develop enterprise solutions to food access that guarantees good food for all.
88 Columbus Circle Athens, Ohio 45701 info@shagbarkmill.com
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Since our 2010 launch, Shagbark Seed & Mill has increased farm partnerships from three to six and acreage to from 25 acres to 80. That first season, we continued to grow spelt & amaranth at Green Edge Organic Gardens, but then it became clear that we had to redirect our farm work to designing and running a facility to process grains and beans here in Athens County.
We still provide seed and know-how to those farmers who are new to our high-nutrition crops--Amaranth, Heirloom Corn, Spelt, and Black Turtle Beans, because they are high nutrition delicious crops that are well adapted to grow in the Midwest. We are closing in on the finish of our business plan and structure, which is going to take the best of what we've learned so far to create a cooperative business system for Shagbark Seed & Mill and other staple food start-ups we work with through the Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative (ASFC). One example is our work with Kurt Belser’s & Marie DeMange’s start-up nut processing enterprise, The Wingnuttery and an oil pressing enterprise in partnership with Dwight Mitchell's Coyote Ridge Engineering to produce pressed oils from sunflower and pumpkin seed and nuts and use the cake by-product as feed. Stay tuned! We also received a Healthy Food Enterprise grant from the Wallace Foundation to work on Healthy Food Access of our products in low income communities. |
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