People Powered Flour Mill

The People Powered Flour Mill is a bicycle-driven grain grinding mill designed to connect the community to its local food production.

It allows communities to buy grain direct from local farmers, not only keeping us fit but giving us the freshest, most nutritious flour. The mill is simple to use: fill the hopper with grain, which is fed into the centre of the stones, and adjust the fineness with the adjusting wheel. Then, pedal the bicycle - connected to the mill with a flexible drive shaft which turns the bottom stone. Flour falls into the collecting bucket below. In one hour of continuous milling, a community could produce 100kg enough for 200 large loaves. With its flexible drive shaft, the mill could be plugged into any power source for continuous milling.

With the mill, communities hold baking workshops and milling demonstrations in their village hall. Children, parents and grandparents can themselves provide that vital link between fields of wheat and loaves of bread.
http://www.ferguswalker.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• flour mill
• wheat
• product design
• industrial design
• community
• food sovereignty
• human power
• gym
• bicycle
• bike
• stone ground flour
• local food
• slow food

[nickwilding]

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