Wheat Montana Deli
On our way back from The Back Home Bakery, we made a quick stop at the Wheat Montana bakery/deli pictured here:
It is located in Three Forks, Montana and is just off I-90. The place is big; I only captured part of it in this photo. And yes, those are grain silos at the back corner of the facility. I believe that they grind all of the flour on-site that is then bagged and sold, or used in their baked goods. There is also a gas station out of the frame, about 100 feet to the right of my position as I took this photo.
The first thing that meets your eyes as you step through the door are stacks of 50-pound bags of flour: Bronze Chief (red whole wheat), Prairie Gold (white whole wheat) and their Naturally White AP. There are also bags of wheat berries. Prices are surprisingly low, compared to what I see in local supermarkets. The berries were priced from $19-21 per 50-pound bag and the flours were priced $20-22 per bag. If I hadn't been told just before leaving for vacation that I'm going to be spending the next couple of years in South Africa, I'd have purchased a couple of bags and worried later about where to store them. As it is, I need to burn through my existing flour stocks in the next few weeks.
Further in, there are shelves with Wheat Montana logoed goods; caps, cups and such. There are also flours in 5- and 10-pound bags, cook books and preserves. Still other shelves hold various breads. There is a deli counter where one can purchase various pastries and sandwiches, along with hot and cold beverages. There are a number of tables to sit at while enjoying your food and drink. I must confess to having been a bit of a bread snob after a week of seeing what Mark produces. Any other day I might have thought their stuff looked pretty good, but it just didn't measure up to what we had been making at The Back Home Bakery. So we stopped long enough to buy a drink and take this picture, then headed back to the road.
Paul