Community Grains

How often do you think about the grains that go into your pasta? Unless you have a specialized diet, probably not often. If you do think about the grains, do you think about the farmers who tended the plant and the soil it grew in, too? Would you like to?

Enter Community Grains. For ten years, Community Grains has been building a better whole grain food system based on nutrient rich soil and innovative milling. With the highest standards for transparency, nutrition, and taste, they make exceptional whole grain pasta. With just two ingredients, 100% whole grain flour and water, Community Grains is putting the pure nutrition of whole wheat forward in their pasta. This is whole grain food - like never before.

Grains start with soil. Community Grains partners with California farmers (including Co-op favorites Full Belly Farm and Coke Farm) who have been building their soil for decades - and you can taste it. These pioneers in no-till, low-till, and dry farming practices use crop rotations and cover cropping to create nutrient-rich soils. The result is grain full of flavor and nutrients as well as a healthier environment for the people, plants, and animals on the farm. 

Milling matters. Community Grains uses an advanced air-classifier mill, providing precise and consistent granulation. Stone or roller milled flours don’t compare on performance and nutrition. Community Grains defines whole grain as 100% of the germ, bran, and endosperm. Wheat kernels go in and emerge as true whole grain flour, never sifted or reconstituted, nutritious vitamins and minerals intact.

Most food packages don’t say where their flour comes from, because they can’t. Community Grains’ Identity Preserved line is transparent from seed to table. Every box has 23 Points of Identity™ to tell the story of the harvest that went into each bite. From information about the harvest date of the seeds and analysis of grain composition down to labor practices on the farm itself, Community Grains helps you to be an informed, ethical consumer of delicious, whole grain pasta. 

Community Grains breaks from convention with production that favors transparency, flavor, and nutrition. Along the way, they’ve teamed up with trailblazing farmers, millers, scientists, bakers, and chefs to develop - and continuously improve - whole grain food. When you eat their pasta, you are part of the community that is building a better whole grain food system – pick some up from your local co-op and enjoy!