farm walks 2023

Chimacum valley grainery

chimacum, WA

Land to Loaf” Farm Walk at The Grainery

The Farm Walk at The Grainery’s showcased this diverse organic grain growing and processing operation in the Chimacum Valley.  The Grainery seeks to support regional food system resilience with locally adapted, organically grown staple crops. Starting with a field walk, we metwith fourth generation wheat farmer Keith Kisler and learn about his collaborations with the WSU Bread Lab and Sustainable Seed Systems Lab to trial and grow out heritage and modern grain varieties that have been adapted for western WA climate resilience, along with restored nutrition and flavor.  From the fields, we then visited the nearby home farm where The Grainery has developed stonemilling, malting, and microbaking facilities in order to generate as much local food as possible from their locally grown grains— with a commitment to maximizing nutrition through whole grain, sourdough and sprouted grain offerings. 

This Farm Walk was supported by:

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP), a program of the USDA Organic Transition Initiative and is administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP)

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive award no. 2022-68006- 37269 from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA).