Specialties
Award winning freshly-milled, stone-ground organic and heritage grains, flour and beans sourced from the Northeast.
Maine Grains serves bakers, brewers chefs and families freshly-milled, organic and heritage grains in bulk quantities, to be used in kitchens of all shapes and sizes. We work with a number of distribution companies, wholesale, and direct ship our grains.
Visit our Dry Goods Shop, onsite cafe, and sign up at mainegrains.com to join a free tour.
History
Established in 2012.
Skowhegan bustled when its paper, wool, and shoe factories were humming. As with grain, these industries left in search of efficiency and large scale, and the town, and its farms were left behind. Today, Skowhegan is fertile ground for an agricultural renaissance led by a new generation of thought leaders, farmers and food producers. By focusing on our greatest assets: grit, resilience, and agricultural know-how, we are creating opportunities. Our once vacant buildings are humming again with new life and new businesses.
Maine Grains isn’t just a new business, it’s an engine of transformation. The mill has helped the town of Skowhegan take center stage in a global renaissance to relocalizing grain economies. Maine Grains bold idea to repurpose a jailhouse into a gristmill has created an international following and Skowhegan has successfully established itself as one of the country’s emerging rural food hubs.
Meet the Business Owner: Amber L.
“Revitalizing Maine’s grain economy has helped provide focus for economic and community development at the grassroots level in Skowhegan at this time in history. We are improving an economic cluster and creating new opportunities from milling and baking, to grain farming, malting, and brewing.” –Amber Lambke, Maine Grains President & CEO