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Hi everyone!

I just got accepted in a traditional flour mill training and I am just so excited! I will learn how to manage old-fashioned mills with stones being moved by water, like this one:

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A summer long apprenticeship is included in the course. Afterwards, I am thinking about putting back into function an old mill in a town nearby my future house... The mill has been restored recently but is not currently in function. This is still in the dream project phase though.

Anyways, do some of you have experience with these kind of traditional flour mill? Any tips and tricks for an excited newbie?

Thanks!

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How cool, congrats!
I don't have any tips, just wanted to say that I love old-fashioned mills.

On Tuesday I went to our nearest mill to get normal and bread flour. The mill still runs with water.

A bit farther off there is a bigger mill that is also powered partially with water, partially with solar power:
Würmmühle. I can buy their flour in our local supermarkets.

I don't only like to support local millers and local grain farmers but also have a good feeling when buying flours with a low CO2 footprint.

There are more mills throughout our district but unfortunately most are not working as mills anymore.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. (E.E.Hale)

 
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Anita Martin wrote:
A bit farther off there is a bigger mill that is also powered partially with water, partially with solar power:
Würmmühle.



Oh wow! That is so cool! I hadn't thought about solar as an alternative source of power (even though it makes sense). Thanks!

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Lyam Pelletier wrote:

Anita Martin wrote:
A bit farther off there is a bigger mill that is also powered partially with water, partially with solar power:
Würmmühle.



Oh wow! That is so cool! I hadn't thought about solar as an alternative source of power (even though it makes sense). Thanks!


Upon further reading I am not so sure  anymore that they actually use the solar power for milling itself. The flour is marketed under the certified label "solar flour" which states in this case that only renewable energy is used in the production, in this case hydro-energy:
Solar flour (scroll down a bit)

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I know nothing useful about milling, but what an exciting opportunity! I hope it works out wonderfully for you!

I'm only 64! That's not to old to learn to be a permie, right?

 
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Cool ! excited to see the developement of your dream. Only work here with a communal flour mill. I do'nt think it was stone by the way it was making dust. You're lucky, it will be fun ! which mill will you go for pratice ?!

Radis.
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Raphaël Blais wrote:which mill will you go for pratice ?!



Hey hey! I don't know yet, maybe the one in Saint-Roch-Des-Aulnaies or the one in Lac Etchemin. The first one is the closest one to Trois-Pistoles where I'll be moving in july in the house I was telling you about!!! The other one is closest to where I live now.

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