If you’ve had a Dunkin Donut lately or enjoy the cookie dough in Perry’s Ice Cream - you might be eating winter wheat grown by Bill and Audrey Steimer on their Reed Farm in Chili. The wheat is turned into pastry flour at Star of the West - a mill in Churchville that provides high-quality flour to many local and national companies.
Farmer Bill Steimer explains his use of buckwheat as a cover crop on his farm in Chili, NY.