WHOLESOME GRAINS WITH HEART & SOIL
Chimacum Valley Grainery is an organic family farm, stone mill, wood fired bakery and craft micro-brewery — growing and milling heritage and modern landrace grains that are selected and bred for flavor, nutrition and local climate resilience. We farm in the fertile valley soils along Chimacum Creek, on Chemakum and S’Kllalam lands, surrounded by a vibrant agricultural community and within an interdependent ecosystem of fields, forests and salmon streams. We’re glad and grateful to grow food for our regional resilience, in a network of interconnected relations, and we’re excited to be part of a revival of small-scale, community-based grain mills producing fresh-milled and nutrient-dense flours— along with whole grain pasta and sourdough bread, traditionally floor malted grain and farmhouse beer .
Field to flour
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land to loaf
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Ground to grain
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Field to flour 〰️ land to loaf 〰️ Ground to grain 〰️
We’re committed to growing whole grains & nourishing whole communities.
as featured on npr
We’re excited to be featured in NPR's article, "Can better bread be a climate change solution? These bakers think so." The Grainery focuses on cultivating diverse wheat varieties that thrive in our unique climate and restore nutrition, resilience and flavor. Through our partnership with the Washington State University Bread Lab, we've planted a "Climate Blend" of grains that is locally adapted and genetically diverse, allowing it to weather the changing climate and support regional food security.
family farming
Chimacum Valley Grainery began as the organic grain-growing efforts of 5th generation grain farmer Keith Kisler. Keith grew up on a wheat farm in Eastern Washington where his family has farmed for generations – learning the rhythms of farm life, how to fix a tractor, and how to work a long day. He met his wife Crystie while both were naturalist educators in Yosemite and they moved together to the Olympic Peninsula in 1996, and then settled down to farm in Chimacum in 2004. Now their family is carrying on the grain-growing tradition, bringing a reverence for the land, commitment to community, acknowledgment of the complexities of our times and devotion to sharing nourishing food with neighbors near and far.
our Values
The Grainery is deeply rooted in Chimacum, operating at a localized scale that has become very rare, and is downright discouraged, in the modern industrial-ag economy. We keep it close! That means our organic grain fields are just a mile up the valley from our stone mill, which is right next to the bakery, malthouse and micro-brewery. While we grow nearly all of our organic grains here in the Valley, we are proud to source from several hard-working organic and regenerative growers from the Dungeness, Skagit and the Columbia River valleys. This ensures some back-up resilience in our supply, and creates a fertile network of like-minded, family-scaled grain growers. Here on our farm, the same small crew is growing, milling, malting, baking and brewing these grains— restoring a heartfelt and deeply lived continuity between the landscape, our community and our sustenance.
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