Locally sourced, organic and heritage grains.

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

– Michael Pollan

From philosopher to physician, we now know that eating more plant- based food nourishes our bodies and our land.

We believe that a gristmill is at the heart of turning the many and varied contributions of a community into sustenance for all.

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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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Visit the mill for one of our free tours and dine at our onsite cafe. You will see how grain is cleaned, sorted and prepared. Watch our team at work. See the beautiful stone mills in action and smell the unmistakable aroma of freshly milled flour.

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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Maine Roots

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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Inspired by #storycooking who was inspired by the #flourambassador, I followed my instincts last night and used puréed pumpkin from the garden and our Maine Grains spelt flour to prepare a batch of sourdough biscuit dough. Baked the off this morning before we all split for work and school. Easy! Delicious! These are made without eggs, just baking powder and sourdough for leavening (because the hens are laying less in these dark days of winter in Maine!). Serve with butter 🧈 and blueberry jam 😋

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Let it snow!

#holidaystrollparade #skowhegan

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Dough scrapers, homemade Holiday Crackers that pop open to reveal grainy good prizes inside, books, books, and more bread books for your favorite bakers! 5% of proceeds from our Maine Grains Dry Goods Store support the #mainegrainalliance Heritage Seed Restoration Project, this season and all year long.

#holiday #shoplocal #localgrains #skowhegan #visitskowhegan

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NEW Bread ART! By #imagesofwork, Barbara Sullivan. #fresco #blackandwhite #toast

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We’re packed with great gifts and specialty foods for the holidays. Let us prepare you lunch in our onsite cafe at Maine Grains while you shop the Dry Goods Shop. And remember, experts say your dollar spent locally will circulate 7 more times in the community!! Open M-F 10-4, Sat 9-2.

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Happy Thanksgiving! Wishing everyone an enjoyable day of gathering friends and family near, to cook and share good food, stories and laughter with one another. 🌽

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Lots of failures (that fed my chickens) to get to this rye loaf, but I think I have figured out the basics for my home loaf, finally. Freshly baked rye bread made such an impression on me when visiting Denmark to learn about milling. I don’t think I’d ever had anything but the dry, infinitely shelf stable slices available from the grocery store before that. Then I met Trine Hanneman at the Kneading Conference and she said that making sourdough rye bread at home is a easy staple in her home country of Denmark. Without too much measuring, watching a few you tube videos of Trine and others, and reading some cookbooks about rye, I have a feel for the fermentation time, temperature, and texture to shoot for now. Just like I remember from my travels!

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#sundaybakeday Taking time to take a class today on making *PIE* with Ellie Marcovitch of #storycooking. She is a master at using Maine Grains in every which way to make delicious, low sugar, wholesome treats for the family. After today, I am inspired to: sprinkle black pepper in my apple pies, try my hand at savory pies using lard instead of butter, make pies in different shapes, and work more with sourdough as the liquid in my pie crusts. Always more to learn!
Thanks for hosting #mainegrainalliance
#pie #tillerandrye #rye #sourdough #crust #bake

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We’re all stocked up for the holidays in our Dry Goods shop the mill. Whether you are looking for crackers and jams for the Thanksgiving table, flour for your baking, or stocking stuffers, we’ve got all kinds of goodness from Maine.

#maine #visitmaine #shopsmall #visitskowhegan #skowhegan #millerstable

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Shout out to Sweet Pea’s in Bar Harbor, ME, now using Maine Grains ancient grain cereal in house made granola. Swing by if you’re on the coast, or ‘Downeast’ as we say in Maine 🌲
#sweetpeascafe #ancientgrains #barharbor #maine #acadianationalpark

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