BELLEVUE — Brett Stevenson is a farmer’s daughter with a passion for fresh, local food. This year, she put her ardor into action by opening Hillside Grain, a mid-sized flour mill she hopes will build upon her father’s business.
The mill was scheduled to be up and running April 13 to send its first batch of flour off to a lab for testing. Once fully operational, Hillside Grain will produce around 1.5 million pounds of flour each year, all milled from wheat and barley grown at Hillside Ranch southeast of Bellevue.
The end product will be a high extraction flour that will be sold wholesale to artisan bakeries around the region. Hillside Grain is the first flour mill of its kind in Idaho; somewhere in between a small-scale artisan and industrial-sized producer.
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