Our Motivation for Milling Whole-grain Organic Flour
At Organic Flour Mills, our primary goal is to provide the healthiest grain and flour we can for our customers.
We do this in 4 ways:
1. Firstly, Organic Flour Mills is Certified Organic - so we can use our organic logo on all our organic products! We are 100% committed to milling only organic wheat, rye, spelt, buckwheat, rice grain, and millet. We never compromise by using grain that is sprayed or chemically treated in any way. Our quinoa is spray-free grown in NZ. We always source our grain from our trusted certified suppliers.
2. Secondly, we provide healthy grain and flour by sourcing our grain as close to home as possible. Our spelt grain is locally grown in the Manawatu, NZ. Our wheat and rye grain are grown in the South Island, NZ. Unfortunately, we need to source our buckwheat, rice, and millet from overseas atm, but we are always on the lookout for New Zealand grown grain. Our quinoa is grown in NZ. An we are looking for NZ-grown buckwheat next season!
3. And thirdly, we also provide the healthiest flour by using Zentrofan air cyclone mills. These mills work by impacting the grain against the mill wall, gradually fragmenting the grain particles into fine flour, until it can be blown into the flour bin. This process prevents the flour from becoming heated and losing some of the precious nutrients in the grain. Most conventional industrial and commercial mills use roller or stone grinding techniques that causes heating through friction, which degrades the quality of the flour. (See article on Zentrofan milling.)
4. Finally, we keep the gluten flours separate from the gluten-free flours, in order to avoid contaminating the gluten-free buckwheat, millet, quinoa and brown rice flours with gluten. Our mills are housed in separate mill rooms, using separate Zentrofan mills, and packing tables, so we minimise any cross-contamination. We are recognised by the Coeliac Society in NZ, so qualify for using their cross-grain logo on our GF products.
Organic Flour Mills is run by the husband-wife partnership of Lindsay and Jilly Wright in Palmerston North, NZ. We were fortunate in acquiring the mills from Wholegrain Organics, and are continuing to produce flour of the same fine quality that customers expect. We enjoy getting to know you - our online and local customers - as we work together with you to provide the healthiest, finest flours in NZ.