The White Family in Hardwick, Massachusetts
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The White Family in Hardwick, Massachusetts
The White Family in Hardwick, Massachusetts
The White Family in Hardwick, Massachusetts
Cost $1.25 per pound. Pickup in Hardwick or Burlington, Massachusetts is possible. Delivery or Shipping by UPS or USPS are options. Please contact Abbie at mail@whitesfieldsfarm.com if interested. Family Lineage of our Redeemer wheat variety shows Ukrainian roots. We have grown Redeemer hard red winter wheat since 2012 and have used our own seed stock since 2016. Helpful UVM Extension video explaining The Anatomy of Wheat Flour - Field to Bakery featuring Redeemer. Hazlet rye is praised for baking. Limited supplies of 2023 Redeemer wheat available for sale. Large orders can not be fulfilled until Fall 2025.
The process of milling wheat is incredibly important. While delivering Redeemer wheat berries to Blue Hill at Stone Barns on May 21, 2023, Stan and I had a conversation with an employee about the need to minimize heat friction during the grain grinding process. We learned that the mill at the restaurant runs 18 hours a day to do the process slowly at a cooler temperature. The Head Baker Patrick Shaw-Kitch at Blue Hill is now opening a business Brooklyn Granary & Mill (BGM) to address the need and demand for high quality custom milled grain. Copied from the BGM website with bolding to emphasize the importance of temperature.
“Patrick has spent many years honing skills and learning lessons about milling the best whole grain flour and baking with it: the flour needs to be as fine as possible; the bran needs to be as small as possible to make the best bread; large bran slashes the gluten and fights the bread-making process; flour that is super fine with minuscule bran chunks can make whole wheat bread as voluminous as mainstream white flour loaves; grains and flour must be kept cool during the milling process because heat starts to oxidize the oil in the wheat and kills some of the flavor and destroys some of the nutrition; the temperature of the flour when it’s milled affects its ability to bake well. Most millers don’t mill with whole grain in mind, they mill to refine, and, in turn, mill a lower quality whole grain flour. Having a miller and business that prioritizes the grain and milling techniques with whole grain flavor and baking in mind sets BGM up with an unmatched foundation. The core of this foundation, BGM’s two stone mills that will rotate in operation in order to keep them as cool as possible, will produce a wide selection of flours that will be tested and custom milled.”
Image courtesy of Patrick Shaw-Kitch at Blue Hill showing bread made with our 2022 Redeemer.
Beautiful harvest for 2022
I was surprised and pleased to receive this beautiful card arrived in my post office box . With a website, social media, and a farm market presence, I am often amazed by the connections that happen. As background I am a long time Hardwick Recycling Commission member and support recycling and reuse. There were impressive artworks using waste plastics at the 2018 Student Thesis Art Exhibition at Worcester State University by Dakota Moon Smith-Porter. I complimented her creative work with an email. She replied more than three years later! I learned that Dakota lives on a farm in Montague and is experimenting with grain growing and weaving wheat straw.
Please reach out to us with your interests in grain growing and processing.
Growing grains in Hardwick in recent years has become a fulfilling family activity that works well with our farmland. Crop fertility and weed suppression are accomplished by rotating fields with our grass grazing sheep and cattle herds.
Publicity from the Chronicle TV show on September 8, 2020 highlighted our Redeemer wheat grain
Abbie's passion for edible landscaping leads crops of sustainably grown pawpaws, grapes, Cornelian cherries, sea buckthorn berries, and beach plums.
Contact Abbie with inquiries about pawpaw fruit at
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Evan made this drone video on his birthday of Stan combining the wheat. The video is long but worthwhile. Combining is calming in terms of the methodical pace and satisfaction gained from harvesting healthy and nourishing grain.
Simon fills and transports a full bag of wheat berries to a poly barn for drying and cleaning. Stan starts up the combine to harvest more wheat. Evan captures the action on his drone. Theresa and Melissa help with cleaning wheat berries. The grandchildren and I observe. Growing wheat is our meaningful and unifying family activity.
Simon completes the harvesting for 2017 of our Redeemer wheat. As he finishes the last part, Evan lets the sheep herd enter the field. Our grain growing fields become pastures in alternate years. Sheep grazing contributes to soil health with improved fertility. With pasture rotation for our grain production, we can suppress weeds and avoid the use of herbicides.
Thank you Evan for this gorgeous drone video from May 11, 2019. Early May is always lovely with vivid green grass and pastel dappled deciduous trees. The sheep thrive. For 2021 we have fields of rye and Redeemer wheat planted.
Sadly, the COVID-19 pandemic Shelter in Place situation was needed for Abbie to actually view her son's wonderful drone farm videos
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