Find the Farmer

Bakers who long for the days when people knew the farmers who made their food are in luck. FindTheFarmer.com, an innovative initiative recently launched by Stone-Buhr Flour, is making it possible for the home baker to trace their bag of flour back to the exact farm where the wheat was grown and harvested.

Since 2007, the maker of Stone-Buhr flour, a popular brand in the western U.S., has cultivated relationships with Northwest wheat farmers to produce Washington White all-purpose, a certified-sustainable brand of flour that is good for the environment and local farming communities. With FindTheFarmer.com, Stone-Buhr has created a user-friendly way for consumers to simply type the product’s “lot code” found on the bag into the website. Then visitors are directed to a map pinpointing the farm’s location. FindTheFarmer.com provides information about the farm where the wheat is grown, along with a forum for consumers to ask questions, get recipe ideas and learn more about the farming families who grow and harvest the wheat. The flour is available at Safeway and other grocery stores in the Northwest. See two recipes using Stone-Buhr Flour below in the featured recipe links.

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