New organic flour for Wales
Modern farming and traditional milling techniques have come together to produce Wales’s newest organic flour. Loaves made with the flour will be one of the talking points at this year’s Winter Fair in Llanelwedd. The new flour is unique in that it uses locally grown organic wheat – a joint project between the world renowned IBERS research centre at Aberystwyth University and the owners of Wales’s latest working water mill. Andrew and Anne Parry of Felin Ganol, Llanrhystud, near Aberystwyth, in mid-Wales, are both former members of staff at IBERS and when they were looking for locally grown organic wheat, they turned to their former employers. Further developments are in the pipe line with IBERS and Felin Ganol carrying out further research into a variety of traditional oats. The loaves will be on sale at the Wales Organic Centre stand as part of the organic area on the balcony of the Livestock Building at the Winter Fair. The Centre is part of IBERS. Growing crops locally means a savin...