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Motorizing Your Mill With a Windshield Wiper Motor
DIY: Motorizing The Country Living Grain Mill With A Wind-Shield Motor On a regular basis, we here at Country Living Products have the pleasure of receiving emails and other correspondence from customers who have done innovative and interesting things with the Country Living Mill. Noel Abela’s motorization of a Country Living Grain Mill using a…
Read MoreWhole Wheat Sourdough Waffles
Learn how to make delicious whole wheat sourdough waffles, using your own starter made from fresh fruit.
Read MoreThe Case of Cadaverous Crows and the Complicit Cat
Every morning as I come into work I am greeted with the piteous cries of an apparently famished feline named Ghosty (named so because his abundant fur is as gray as a ghostly vapor tickling the glassy surface of the lake before the dew has ceased settling on the emerald blades of grass that…
Read MoreFall Unraveling
The first school buses of autumn send shivers through me. It’s true. Those yellow-carriers-of-children to some endless dolor of desks and chalky dust evoke in me inner prickles of impending loss. Once the diesel-belching yellow dragons start sniffing out the summer-bleached children I know that all that’s halcyon and warm will soon be shorn and…
Read MoreNew Recipe Video – How to Make Monkey Bread (Cinnamon Sugar Pull Aparts)
Check out our first recipe video! This shows you how to make a delicious treat out of 100% whole wheat flour. They are light, fluffy and absolutely irresistible. You will love this Monkey Bread as a fall snack for the kids or finger food for a party.
Read MoreRaspberry Daze
There’s nothing quite like wandering into your own backyard when the heat of a sunny summer day begins to cool and harvesting a bowl full of berries. The strawberries like to hide beneath broad leafs and checking beneath often reveals some succulent red berry that has escaped my notice. The real question is whether or…
Read MoreWalden Labs Grain Mill Review
Excerpt from Country Living Grain Mill Review – Walden Labs “The benefits of grinding your own grains are many, one benefit being that you avoid the highly processed and refined flour that you buy in the store. That stuff is dead! Whole grain flour is healthier, plus whole grains store much longer than flour. While…
Read MoreThe Manly Man’s Milling Machine
Hello Mr. Jenkins, You kindly brought one of your mills to the Grain Gathering at WSU-Mount Vernon in August, where I picked it up. Since then the mill has been out in the shop where my husband has been working on motorizing the mill and making a cart, so the mill can be portable. He…
Read More90 Year Old Grinds Flour by Hand
We received the following note from a Country Living Mill owner: “Love our mill. My father (90 years old) has adopted it — He’d grind flour every day I think! We really do love it. Here’s a picture from one week in January, so you can see what we’re doing. All sourdough, no added yeast,…
Read MoreThe Most Beautiful Thing in the World
The Most Beautiful Thing in The World Alicia; one of Jack’s 28 grandchildren I took a little, informal poll the other day. The question wasn’t very controversial and the responses won’t change anybody’s foreign policy or campaign strategy. But for me? The answers made my day. I was musing one day over the many lovely…
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