Weekend read: How do you buy flour?

On last Friday Hive account@shanibeer wrote about her flour (and other tasty food) shopping.

#marketfriday meets #breadbakers! by Hive account@shanibeer

Last year Hive account@breadcentric mentioned some mills from which he buys flour in his post. (Back then #breadbakers community hasn't started yet ;) )

What's better: organic or local? Co lepsze: ekologiczne czy lokalne? [EN/PL] by Hive account@breadcentric

Recently I (Hive account@akipponn, host of the community) found an interesting statistics about German mills.

Verband deutscher Mühlen:  Mühlen in Deutschland<

According to the web page, the number of mills has drastically decreased.

In 1950 there were still almost 19,000 mills in Germany, compared to 2,500 in 1980. Today there are 550.

Once I had chance to visit a family owned mill Hummel's Mühle in Blackforest in Southern Germany. It was nice to see how the main ingredient of bread is produced in an environment full of nature ... Silly me I only have the photo shown on top of this post. I would love to visit the mill again and write a post about the visit in the future. And I wish nice small size mills survive with support of bakers.

Coming back to how to buy flour, one strategy for bread baking fans can be ...

• If you buy more than 10kg, it makes sense to order it to a mill and receive it at home.
• Flour you use less with little amount such as 1kg of spelt can be added to an order to a mill or bought from local shops.

How do you buy flour? Happy to read about it as a comment or as a post :)

Happy baking!