A Miller's Tale

Photo by Victoria Jackson
“Our baker, Mark Hart is developing new recipes to highlight our incredible variety of organic grains,” says Taylor Gemmel, president of Anita’s Organic Mill. “We’re also planning to open an education centre with classes for professional and aspiring home bakers, to teach them more about using our flours.”
Anita’s Organic Mill in Chilliwack is a pioneer when it comes to stone-milling organic grains in B.C. Producing 26 different organic flours, the company has seen sales increase by 50 per cent amid the pandemic baking frenzy.
Standing in the field in Armstrong, B.C., Fieldstone Organics’ Tony Van Den Tillaart talks to Anita’s Organic Mill’s former employee, Shawn Giesleman (left) and president, Taylor Gemmel (right).
True Grain is another pioneer in small-scale milling of whole, organic, B.C.-grown grain, although this year it milled about 3,000 tonnes of grain.
It started in 2004 with one small mill inside its Vancouver Island bakery and now has a larger milling facility and a bakery in Summerland and Cowichan Bay.