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Submitted by Windischgirl on April 27, 2008 - 5:52am flour distributors in PhiladelphiaHi: Given the 3-5 loaves per week that get inhaled around here, I need to find a bulk flour source. KA has officially hit $1/lb at my local supermarket. I'm open to ordering online and having it shipped, (and have searched the archives for all your suggestions--Thanks!) but would prefer to buy locally. The best KA could offer me was a distributor in Lancaster PA...about 2 hr drive away. But I live near a city of over 2 million people...with a healthy bunch of local bakeries. Tell me there isn't a distributor for high quality flour closer! I have googled "bakery supply" and "flour mills" for this area and have been frustrated. I can easily get a conveyor oven to fill my living room, but flour in bulk...no good hits. Any sugestions? Gotta go check on Aunt Carmine's light rye currently in the oven!
thanks
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Local Harvest
Try www.localharvest.org and search for "flour;" that's how I found my local farm/mill source for organic flour & grains.
Finding distributors
Note that King Arthur is probably giving you the name of their regional wholesaler/rep agency. That entity in turn most likely supplies local distributors in your city. It would be worth calling the number that KA gave you and asking if they have a local distributor or rep. They would also know if any of their bakery customers are willing to sell bags of flour out the back door.
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flour sources
kmp, sphealey:
thanks so much: Great ideas! Will have to follow up and let you know.
We were looking into joining a local csa this year...something else to consider.
Just got a request to make some Burli (little Swiss rolls). The rye bread is half-gone already!
Paula F
Philadelphia PA
Paula, Did you ever find a
Paula,
Did you ever find a place? I am just really getting into baking bread (every weekend now!) and need to get flour in larger quantities. Did you find any in the city?
Also how have you learned? I would just about kill to have a day with a pro baker to ask questions and watch.
CSA
This will be our 3rd season with our CSA and I can't recommend it more. Even my fiance', who, when I met him subsisted primarily on buffalo chicken pizza and hamburgers, now longs for the start of fresh veggie season every bit as much as I do.
The reconnection with the seasons, giving our food dollar to a local farmer, the amazing freshness & taste of the veggies, the fact that we are so much healthier in Summer/Fall because we are eating mainly vegetables - it's all a plus. Besides that, I got a whole bunch of free organic fruit last year, from a fellow CSAer who had more than her family of three could eat, so I made preserves, jam, sauces, salsas, marinades and canned them all. And now I spread them on fresh homemade bread!