Everything you wanted to know about setting up a community wheat and corn milling operation will be revealed at a special meeting this afternoon in Chesley.
Meeting Organizer Tom Slumskie says the North American representative of the Italian Company Agrex will be the featured speaker.
Agrex is a company that has set up some 400 community milling operations around the world.
Slumskie says this meeting will explore the possibility of setting up a co operative mill in Grey Bruce that would allow local cash crop producers to have their product processed closer to home rather than ship it to Toronto.
He says some of the proposals they are looking at would require 25 to 75 tonnes per day.
Slumski says with the popularity of the so called 100 mile diet movement these days more and more people in Grey Bruce want to purchase flour that is produced right at home and support local producers.
He says a community milling system would offer that opportunity to consumers.
Also attending todays meeting will be a representative from the Saugeen Economic Development Committee and an expert on the process of starting up a co-op.
The meeting about community milling gets underway at 1 pm at St. Johns United Church in Chesley
