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From Jailhouse to Gristmill

Learn about the unusual story behind the former county jail transforming a blighted part of downtown
Skowhegan into a thriving food hub and community gathering place.

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Bulk Grains for Businesses

Maine Grains serves bakers, brewers chefs and families freshly-milled, organic and heritage grains in bulk quantities, to be used in kitchens of all shapes and sizes. We work with a number of distribution companies, wholesale, and direct ship our grains.

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The people of Maine are just like our landscape- rugged, resilient & industrious. We fix what’s broken. Learn about the new generation of thought leaders, farmers, & food producers revitalizing our grain economy, from the ground up.

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Ingredients matter, we all know this. Maine Grains

Ingredients matter, we all know this. Maine Grains is proud to serve bakers, chefs, institutions, and brewers quality bulk grains, so they can bring their culinary talents to the table.
We don’t mean quality in some abstract or jargony way. We mean quality because our grain is grown by small scale farmers, in our state and region, with attention to detail and sustainable practices. Quality because it’s stone milled by our dedicated and fastidious crew, to uphold the nutritional integrity and flavor in our flours. Quality because it’s hand packed and labeled, every bag, every pallet. Quality you can taste, feel, smell, and share. Happy baking.

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So much potential deliciousness represented here.

So much potential deliciousness represented here. 💕

You can find our grains at many a shop, bakery, and restaurant kitchen around the northeastern USA. You can order grains, books, baking wares, and Maine made goods via our website. You can also stop by the mill in Skowhegan and say hi! The Dry Goods Shop is stocked with grains and goodies, and @millerstablemaine has wood fired pizza, sourdough loaves, and delicious local coffee. What more does one need, really?

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At it’s start, Maine Grains set out to repurpose

At it’s start, Maine Grains set out to repurpose an old jailhouse into a gristmill, because it was a historic building in the center of our downtown that would have sat vacant, and because we wanted to create viable, meaningful work in our community. Skowhegan bustled when it’s paper, wool, and shoe factories were humming. As with grain, these industries left in search of efficiency and large scale, and the town, and it's farms were left behind. Today, Skowhegan is fertile ground for an agricultural renaissance led by a new generation of thought leaders, farmers and food producers. By focusing on our greatest assets: grit, resilience, and agricultural know-how, we are creating opportunities. Our once vacant buildings are humming again with new life and new businesses.

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If you’re in our area, near Central Maine come c

If you’re in our area, near Central Maine come check out our new dried pasta from Chef Ilma Lopez of Piccolo and Chaval Restaurants, made in Portland, Maine! Some of these beautiful shapes and varieties feature Maine Grains.

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Cocoa Campfire Crackers, made with toasted oat flo

Cocoa Campfire Crackers, made with toasted oat flour & buckwheat. These simple, lightly sweet beauties are wonderful for so many applications. They’re great for dipping in cannoli filling, ricotta, making s’mores, or ice cream sandwiches. Perfect for those with gluten sensitivities, too. 🤎

Find the recipe at mainegrains.com/recipes

Images and recipe by @legacyacres

Earl Gray & Cacao Shortbread Cookies. These beauti

Earl Gray & Cacao Shortbread Cookies. These beauties are made with our Organic Sifted All-Purpose Flour for a perfectly tender texture and buttery flavor. Add the tea and cacao, or customize in countless different ways with icing, chocolate, dried fruit, orange zest, and so on. Wrap up a handful and gift them as the tastiest valentines ever.

Recipe is on our website at mainegrains.com/recipes

Images and recipe developed by @elliemarkovitch 💘

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Buckwheat Chocolate Cannoli Pie. Make it big, or m

Buckwheat Chocolate Cannoli Pie. Make it big, or make some minis to share! It’s creamy and delicious without being overly sweet. The filling is made with ricotta, chocolate chips and pistachios, and is perfect for spreading or really just eating with a spoon. The buckwheat is great for those who are gluten sensitive.

It’s up on our website, Mainegrains.com/recipes

Images and recipe developed by @legacyacres 💕

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Still perfecting sourdough at home? Here’s an op

Still perfecting sourdough at home? Here’s an opportunity to buy a baking kit and classes from local Maine experts to hone your skills, learn to use freshly milled Maine Grains, and perfect your proofing in a banneton basket. Click the link in our bio for details.

Offered up by the nonprofit @mainegrainalliance your kit will be shipped to you (or available for pick up in Maine) and will include:

Items include:
Sifted Flour, 2.4 lbs (86% Extraction) – @mainegrains
Dried Sourdough Starter – Lamastide Baking
2 Sourdough Cookies – @skowheganfleuriste.bankery
Sourdough Skinnies Crackers – @brazenbaking Baking
A Wicker Banneton proofing basket
Tea Towel – @TheWhollyCrow
Bench Scraper
Danish Dough Whisk
A Printed Sourdough Handbook – Dr. Dusty Dowse
A 50% discount on a Maine Grain Alliance Virtual Sourdough Baking Workshop led by Jim Amaral of @borealisbreadsme
A 50% discount on a Maine Grain Alliance Virtual Cracker Workshop led by Jeff & Lisa Dec of Brazen Baking
One entry for chance to win the golden ticket to the 2021 #kneadingconference !!!

We hope you will support a great cause, a great organization, and join us as we #baketoconnect !!

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From jailhouse to gristmill, it’s quite the tran

From jailhouse to gristmill, it’s quite the transformation. ✨
Pictured here is our small flour sifter, and oat hullers behind it. The hum of machines, the flour dust in the air, the fastidious crew, the lovely wooden mills, all fit just beautifully into this repurposed space.

#howitstartedvshowitsgoing #jailhousetogristmill #mainegrains #transformation #mainstreetskowhegan #visitskowhegan