It is still a working organic farm with 100 Aubrac cattle and mule ewes and fields of wheat spelt for milling bread.
Krispy Kreme also said it was closing its Montana Mills Bread stores, an operation that it bought a year ago and that as recently as mid-April it said it planned to continue refining and expanding.
At Sunday's grand opening, assorted bread heads milled about, inspecting the gleaming pine machine, and sampling breads baked by representatives of Los Angeles Bread Bakers, an organization whose blog currently features a post on growing wheat in your front yard.
That may be changing, however, since a passionate bread baker, Andrea Crawford of Kenter Canyon Farms, launched her "farm to toaster" program this week, selling locally grown heritage wheatberries and freshly milled flour, and artisanal bread baked from it, at the Santa Monica Wednesday and Hollywood markets.
Harvested from the acacia tree, the wattleseed can be eaten fresh or dried and milled into flour for bread.
This seed, planted in American soil, under an American sun, sprouted and flourished, fields of wheat, milled to grain, the daily bread.
NASA could cut down on that amount if it were to send bulk ingredients, like soybeans or wheat berries, to Mars, which could then be milled into flour to make bread or pasta.
Aside from the bountiful Greek salad and some satisfyingly run-of-the-mill garlic bread, side dishes — soupy platters of lemon potatoes, pasta salad with imitation crab — tend not to materialize.
Premier's financial woes began with its ill-fated acquisition of RHM, the flour milling and bread group behind Hovis, at the height of the credit boom in 2007.
Pliny the Elder wrote that Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, taught milling and bread making there, and Emperors Augustus and Hadrian encouraged the development of agriculture.
Its major end-uses are as feed or fodder, but improvements in its grain milling and bread making quality could allow an extension to its use in human consumption or as an industrial feedstock.
