The mill, plate by plate.

Eight photographs of the building, the stones, the cleaning room and the ground it all sits on. Captions say what you are looking at and roughly when.

Plates 01 – 02 · The building

The Kestrel Granary mill building on Dike Road: a weathered board-and-batten granary with a steel grain leg and silo, farmland and a snow-covered peak behind it. — **Plate 01**The granary from the yard, looking northeast. The leg on the left feeds the two bins.

A Skagit Valley grain field ripe at sunset with the Cascade foothills behind it. — **Plate 02**Edison hard red spring on the Halverson place, Fir Island, about a fortnight from cutting.

Plates 03 – 05 · The floor

A pair of granite millstones under a wooden hopper, the surfaces dusted white with flour. — **Plate 03**The forty-inch runner and bed. Dressed by hand roughly every four hundred hours.

Fresh flour falling from a wooden spout into a cloth sack, flour dust hanging in the light from the mill window. — **Plate 04**The spout into a fifty-pound sack. The dust is the reason nobody visits on a milling day.

A belt-driven Clipper fanning mill standing in a shaft of light in the cleaning room. — **Plate 05**The Clipper No. 27, bought at a farm sale near Bow in 2015 and belted back up.

A stone mill is mostly housekeeping. Grinding is the easy part. Wes Boonstra, head miller

Plates 06 – 08 · Grain and store

A metal scoop lifting hard red spring wheat berries out of a bin. — **Plate 06**Yecora Rojo out of bin two, cleaned and waiting.

Filled cloth flour sacks stacked on a wooden pallet beneath the mill's hoppers. — **Plate 07**A Tuesday pallet, tagged with variety, lot and mill date.

The mill store: shelves of glass jars and kraft paper bags of flour above a plank counter. — **Plate 08**The store counter on a Thursday morning, before the rye comes down.

Kestrel Granary is a fictional business built to demonstrate a Kolbrant site. Every photograph on this page is AI-generated.

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Call the mill and ask what is in the bin.

Nell or Wes picks up between 7:30 and 3:30 on weekdays. If we are on the floor and the stones are loud, leave a message with the variety and the poundage and you will hear back the same day.

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