Motorizing Your Mill with a ShopSmith

Keith and Tana Hanlon sent us the following letter and photos about how they motorized their Country Living using a tool they already had on hand: “Hello All, Just want to say how much we enjoy using your mill. We turn out anywhere from 8 to 12 cups of flour weekly. Good exercise to say…

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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…

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The 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…

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Fall 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…

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Pumpkin and Spice and All That’s Nice

These are moist, delicious, and made from 100% whole wheat flour, ground on the Country Living Grain Mill. Whole Wheat Pumpkin Muffins 2 eggs, beaten 2/3 cup granulated sugar 1 cup pumpkin, canned 1/3 cup vegetable oil 2/3 cup milk Blend above five ingredients together, then add: 2 cups whole wheat flour, finely ground 1/2 tsp.…

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Raspberry 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…

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Happy Customers

We get many nice letters from our customers who are using their Country Living Grain Mills.  Here is the latest from Duncan H. in Ohio: He said, “It is an amazing mill, so well made and quite nice looking.  The flour we get from it is superb.”           &nbsp Thank you,…

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