{"id":50260,"date":"2019-12-22T07:24:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50260"},"modified":"2019-12-22T07:24:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:24:51","slug":"the-staple-food-revolution-bringing-beans-and-grains-to-local-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50260","title":{"rendered":"The Staple Food Revolution: Bringing Beans and Grains to Local Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foodtank.com\/news\/2019\/12\/the-staple-food-revolution-bringing-beans-and-grains-to-local-markets\/\">The Staple Food Revolution: Bringing Beans and Grains to Local Markets<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/k48b9e9840-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/CICArticle1.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Contributing Author:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/foodtank.com\/news\/author\/emrpaynegmail-com\/\">Emily Payne<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandon Jaeger and Michelle Ajamian say they were driven by existential anxiety to open\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shagbarkmill.com\/\">Shagbark Seed &amp; Mill<\/a>\u00a0in Athens, Ohio. Their facility produces Ohio-grown, Certified Organic dry beans and freshly milled grains to help create a local staple food market. During\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.croptrust.org\/press-release\/cropsincolor-appalachia\/\">#CropsInColor in Appalachia<\/a>\u00a0tour, they share with Food Tank and The Crop Trust about the challenges of starting a small grain mill and why they\u2019re not aiming to be in every kitchen in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before opening Shagbark, Jaeger and Ajamian traveled the country visiting farmers\u2019 markets and noticed that, despite growth in local food systems, staple foods were not represented at a local level. \u201cAll of our protein comes from [beans and grains] and a lot of nutrients, and they aren\u2019t available locally,\u201d Ajamian says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI went to the farmers\u2019 market to get my eggs, cheese, and leafy greens, but then I went home and grabbed my cans of beans, rice, crackers, and pasta from the pantry,\u201d Jaeger explains. \u201cI can buy locally baked bread, but I don\u2019t know where the flour is coming from, just like how I don\u2019t know where all those other beans and grains come from.\u201d And after some research, Ajamian found that even black beans in organic co-ops, for example, were often coming to Ohio from China.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pair received a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sare.org\/Grants\">Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education<\/a>&nbsp;grant in 2008 to test high-nutrient staple crop plots for Appalachian farmers. \u201cWe looked at all of the empty fields in Appalachia and realized they aren\u2019t really geared to the kind of ag that\u2019s in the corn belt. We have small, irregular plots and thin soil,\u201d Ajamian says. Nuts and other perennials, however, grow well in the region\u2019s unique topography and climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Staple Food Revolution: Bringing Beans and Grains to Local Markets Brandon Jaeger and Michelle Ajamian say they were driven by existential anxiety to open\u00a0Shagbark Seed &amp; Mill\u00a0in Athens, Ohio. Their facility produces Ohio-grown, Certified Organic dry beans and freshly milled grains to help create a local staple food market. During\u00a0the\u00a0#CropsInColor in Appalachia\u00a0tour, they share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28741,1912,28740],"class_list":["post-50260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-beans","tag-food-production","tag-grains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50261,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50260\/revisions\/50261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}