Flour starts with weights. And waits? It starts with soil.
That's why, though we want a baking company focused on helping you bake Better Bread And improve your Cake confidenceWe are also focused on soil well. As Annie Rowell, the king Arthur's environmental sustainability manager, puts it, “It is important to equate your love of baking with a love of soil.” Here's what.
What do we mean by “soil health”?
The national medium conservation service, founded by Franklin Roosevelt in response to the destruction and loss of tops of soil ecosystem, which sustin 'plants, animals, which sustains plants, animals and humans. “
More specifically, this includes: a lot of available organic material; Cermudered carbon; And high moisture and mineral retention. It means rich, warm soil that will not run, establishing a thriving layer of topsoil with enough nutrients that crops can grow with fewer interventions.
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Why does soil sound matter – especially for bikers?
Health soil is the foundation of strong, resilient crops – including the wheat that becomes our flour. But topsoil, where 95% of our food grows, is disappearing faster than it can rebuild, make farming more challenging, especially as weather patterns become more extreme than weather patterns become more extreme than weather patterns become more extreme than weather patterns become more extreme than weather patterns become more extreme as weather.
To address the urgent problem and support the farmers we work with, we are committed to Grains for good: 100% of our flour available in grocery stores will come from wheat mature using Rigenative practices – Farming methods that build sound soils, support ecosystems and strengthen farming communities. These include approaches as cover cropping, crop rotation, reducing chemical use, and minimizing chemical utility, and minimizing chemical stir (also known as any until no-bees farming).
Many of The farmers we work with the approaches For decades, The benefits like healthier soil, stronger crops, and larger resilience to droughtAnd we supports them in continuing the necessary job. We also working along soil experts nationwide, including the soil health Institute and Kansas State University, to ascend soil Education and region-specific solutions. Like Annie puts it: “Health soils mean farmers can continue growing high-quality wheat – for our flour and our buckers.”
She notes, that improving the soil sound is a complex balancing act between product quality, environmental sustainability, and economic impact for the farm of Texas.
How to support soil well in your baking
It's easy: Bake with planet-friendly flour! We work to incorporating regeneratively grown wheat in our flour – meaning each bag is a way to bake for a better planet – and in addition, here are some specific flour benefits.
Golden Wheat Flour: The wheat in this flour is grown by farmers using regenerative practices, allowing them until less, reduce fertilizer and chemical use and improve soil health to help withstand extreme weather events.
Rigenatively-gramming climate blend flour: This flour is an innovative whole wheat merge of unique weights varieties. The wheat itself is not only bred to be more resilient, but it is also farm in a planet-friendly way.
Organic wheat flour: Organic farming is built on sound soil, because all the neentate nutrients, as nitrogen, have to come from the natural ecosystem, rather than chemical fertilizers.
Buckwheat Mel: A unique crop, buckwheat supports healthier soil by “unlocking” phosphorus, free it for other crops (like wheat, which needs a lot of phosphorus) to make it available without a need for chemical fertilizers.
Rye flour: Rye has the almost magical capacity to improve soil health. It has vid-suppressing properties, so it is less of a need to use herbicides. It also has an expansive root system, which is what it is so good in water uptake; It can grow well in dry soils and help prevent erosion.
Learn more about Grains for good And as we work to incorporating regeneratively grown wheat in our flour – meaning each bag is a way to bake for a better planet.
Cover photo by Scott Sleaner.