The Power of Flour

By Lynn Fichtner, Hill Country View
September 1, 2017

"Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king." -Louis Bromfield, American novelist and advocate of scientific agriculture (1896-1956).

Inside Barton Springs Mill off Highway 290, owner James Brown reaches into a large, couch-sized freezer that holds his precious cargo of heirloom seeds. He rummages around, looking for a particular zip-locked plastic bag he wants to show off. It's full of beautiful green corn kernels from the south of Mexico, a region where the Zapotec people have been continue reading on hillcountryview.com...