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Tastemakers visits the Mill
Cat Neville and the crew from TASTEMAKERS visited the mill in 2019. Watch her interview with proprietor James Brown...
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Barton Springs Mill Brings Previously Unavailable Grains to Texas Bakers
By MM Pack, Texas Highways
April 29, 2021
From Oaxacan Green corn to Turkey Red wheat, the grains James Brown procures provide a wide palette to bakers...
Barton Springs Mill Is Leading a Texas Grain
By Paula Forbes, Texas Monthly
August, 2019
The Hill Country’s first new mill in more than a century, Barton Springs opened in 2017 in a five-thousand-square-foot building on Frog Pond Lane, in Dripping Springs. The warehouse sits in a small industrial park with identical buildings, but only one contains hulking machines that include a 1930s Clipper seed cleaner, an imported Austrian Osttiroler mill bearing two 1,500-pound millstones...
James Brown Is Changing the Taste of Texas
By Chris Hughes, The Austin Chronicle
April, 2020
A former church musician who’s classically trained in organ and choral conducting, the owner of Barton Springs Mill has gone from amateur baker to the future of Texas foodways...
Promised Land for Food Entrepreneurs
By Jessi Devenyns, The Austin Chronicle
March 8, 2019
It's not the picturesque Hill Country views, or Austinites' penchant for patio cocktails, or even the gushing venture capital streams that are driving the local consumer packaged goods industry...
Stock Your Pantry
Austin Monthly
Favored by top local bakeries (Miche Bread, Sour Duck Market), flours from Barton Springs Mills aren’t just exceptional because they’re made of exclusively organic grains... visit austinmonthly.com
Ancient Grains Into Fresh Flour
By Addie Broyles, Austin American Statesman
Sep 25, 2018
If you’ve recently seen the name “Barton Springs Mill” pop up on restaurant menus across Austin, you’re not alone.
Sowing the Seeds
By Jessi Cape, Austin Chronicle
September 1, 2017
Barton Springs Mill owner James Brown has his heart set on reminding people where their bread comes from.
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