Prairie Foods started the way most good shops do: someone couldn't buy what they wanted, so they decided to stock it themselves — right here in Plum Coulee, Manitoba.
The Pembina Valley grows some of the best wheat in the country, and yet finding fresh, stone-milled flour locally meant a long drive or a long wait. So we bought a mill, then a bigger one, and started grinding for ourselves. Friends asked for a bag. Then the friends of friends did.
Today Prairie Foods is a proper shop on Main Avenue: bins of heirloom grains, shelves of salts and sweeteners that taste like something, home grain mills we'd actually put in our own kitchens, and the kind of plain, honest advice you only get from people who cook with what they sell.
We're small on purpose. It lets us buy recent crop, repack to whatever size you need, and remember your name when you come back.
None of this is complicated. It's just the difference between a shop that moves boxes and one that actually feeds people.
We date every bag and buy only what we can sell while it's fresh. Grain that's been sitting for years doesn't make it onto our shelves.
Flour is freshest the day it's ground. We mill in small batches and keep it moving so it reaches your kitchen alive.
Buy by the pound or the 50-lb bag. Bring a clean jar or pail and we'll repack to whatever size suits your kitchen.
Ask us anything — hydration, mill settings, which salt to finish with. We cook with this stuff, so we actually know.
Stop in at 289 Main Avenue in Plum Coulee, or browse the pantry online and we'll ship it across the prairies.