Advantages offered by local and regional bakery ingredients and brands include a sense of local pride and community support.

Farmer Direct Foods is committed to this principle through its proprietary Identity Assured™ process, which allows Farmer Direct to trace regeneratively grown wheat back to the farms, providing full transparency into the inputs, conditions, and methods used to produce its artisan quality flour products.

Novacart recently launched a new line in North America of biodegradable and compostable Dual Ovenable Containers and lidding film. The line is called Biopap.

Greg Tyzzer, bakehouse manager at Dorothy Lane Market, an upscale grocer based in Dayton, Ohio, shared that “as our local grain movement continues to grow, we at the DLM Bakehouse are continuously searching for ways to bridge the past with the present. We believe our DLM Einkorn Bread is a testament to this." 

The recent “From Cover Crop to Table Top: The Ohio Local Grain Economy,” was attended by dozens of farmers, millers, retailers and others at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio, and was sponsored by the Artisan Grain Collaborative and Dorothy Lane Market with the Bread Bakers Guild of America, Sarah Black of Sarah’s Breads, and The Mix at Columbus Sate Community College.

Speaker and Chef Spencer Saylor, founder of The Wizard of Za and director of catering & events for Metro Cuisine, comments that “I’m all for using more local grains in pizza dough.”

Pete Linde, baker and owner of Meshuggah Bagels in Kansas City, Missouri, grew up in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, where he savored the simple pleasures of snacking on a New York-style bagel every day after school. Now he treats Kansas City-area customers to his time-tested method of bagel production.

Whole Foods Market is part of a growing movement of supermarket chains featuring local or regional grains in premium bakery products.

Balance is the “word du jour,” proclaims Anne-Marie Roerink, president of 210 Analytics, who spoke at Corbion’s recent Media Day 2023. “Everything in moderation is back in vogue.” According to new research, 78% of consumers say they are “completely fine to occasionally treat yourself to bakery.”