Winter Grain Pick Up January 2026

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Baking with Stone Ground Flour:

White bleached/enriched flour isn’t so good for you, but it sure is user friendly.  Learn from a baker and flour miller about how to use full stone milled flour in your kitchen!

Corn & Nixtamalization: Food Science & Ancestral Knowledge

Join Gina Navarro for a discussion of the foundations of nixtamalization, food science, and ancestral

knowledge around corn, with prepared examples to taste. 

Participants will also get to take home some nixtamalized flour to test out at home!

 

 

Growing Medicinal Oats and Clover:
Did you know that some of your favourite grain CSA seeds are also medicines?
Join Kris Antonius of Awaken Herb Farm to learn how and why to grow Milky
Oats and Red Clover.

 

Know Your Farmer: Panel Discussion with Grain CSA Growers

Get to know some of your Winter Grain CSA farmers and hear their farm stories.

Curious about how your food is grown? Bring your questions along!

 

 

Bring your favourite dish (consider this your challenge to use the final scraps of last year’s bundle if there’s anything unused in the back of your pantry), bring a print-out of the recipe, and let’s enjoy spending time with this incredible community of farmers and foodies.