Renan wheat was first cultivated in France, where the centuries-old tradition of bread-baking is considered high art. French farmers and bakers love this grain variety for the exceptional flavor, subtly sweet aroma and delicate, buttery crumb it gives to every loaf. You’ll think your Renan bread is buttered even when it’s not!
Use Unified Mills Bread Flour for all types of bread, from focaccia to baguettes to sourdough.
Our bread flour is made from Renan wheat grown organically in the Finger Lakes of New York and harvested by farmers using methods that leave the soil richer and stronger. The grain is then brought down the road to The Birkett Mills -- a 230-year-old family owned flour mill once powered by the creek running below it. There it is milled in small batches. We pack it and send it your way. It’s that simple. No commodity markets. No anonymous middle men.
“Your flour was a game-changer. No comparison. It had so much flavor”
Adam J., Brooklyn, NY
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The Birkett Mills
The Birkett Mills has been milling specialty grains in the Finger Lakes region of New York since 1797. It specializes in New York grown buckwheat and soft red wheat.
Seneca Grain & Bean is a multi-generational farm and processor in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. It started with Klaas and Mary-Howell Martens and a plot of land in Penn Yan, NY. After years of farming conventionally, Klaas and Mary-Howell realized that the chemical use of conventional farming perhaps wasn’t only making the farmer sick, but also was making the land sick. The decision to transition to organic was rooted in the tight margins of conventional farming in the early 1990s. This was a difficult decision in the Finger Lakes at the time, given the unpredictability of our seasons and the fact that they would be leading this movement in our area of New York.