Estate Grown Grains
Premium product. Premium service. Fully traceable from field to consumer.
If you are interested in learning more about our Estate Grown Grains program, email
Sam Halcomb or give him a call at (270) 847-3211
Estate Grown Grain is Walnut Grove Farms' premium product.
To qualify for our Estate Grown Grains label, a particular lot of grain must meet an exacting set of standards:
-Produced solely by Walnut Grove Farms
-Non-GMO
-Grown in one distinct crop season
-Stored only within Walnut Grove Farms' storage bins
-Completely traceable from seed to harvest to customer delivery.
One Family. One Farm. One Season.
Estate Grown Grains customers have access to all aspects of their crop's life cycle, and know that their grain has never been co-mingled with that of farms using other farming practices. This traceability to an individual family farm helps set a premium product apart in a crowded marketplace.
Estate Grown Grains Customers
are millers, artisanal bakers, craft brewers and distillers...artists who turn grain into the finest food and drink. They care deeply about every ingredient that goes into their final product.
Starting to really enjoy the milling process so much! This is the Edison wheat our friends grow in Kentucky. I use it in our levain and in as many doughs as I can. @walnutgrovefarms I will be using it in a soda bread..... that will be available in a few local locations.
Weisenberger Mill’s yellow corn muffin mix is milled from non-GMO yellow corn grown by Walnut Grove Farms. Pair it with JKL Pinto Beans for the perfect winter meal. We’re proud to partner with these great local companies!
A Standard of Quality
Walnut Grove Farms began formulating the concept of Estate Grown Grains in 2014 as they worked with premium grain users who wanted to know more about the grain they were buying. But in a sense, Estate Grown Grains can trace its roots to 1897 when Col. E.H. Taylor was successful in getting the Bottled in Bond Act passed by Congress.
One of the main purposes of this act was to create a standard of quality for bourbon whiskey. In much the same spirit, Walnut Grove Farms wanted to set a standard of quality for grains going to their premium customers. The key tenets of Bottled in Bond whiskey are that it must be distilled in one distillation season, by one master distiller, at one distillery. Further, it must be bottled at a certain proof and stored in a federally bonded warehouse.
In similar fashion, Walnut Grove Farms defines their Estate Grown Grains. To meet those exacting standards, a particular lot of grain must have been produced solely by Walnut Grove Farms, must be non-GMO and from one distinct crop season, must be stored only within Walnut Grove Farms' storage bins, and be traceable from seed to harvest to customer delivery.
Really, everything about Bourbon comes from the soil.
Stewardship & Sustainability
As sixth generation farmers, we want to do everything possible to ensure Walnut Grove Farms is here and productive for the next six generations and well beyond. That means caring for the soil on which our crops are grown and the water that nourishes those crops.
We are part of long-term research to reimagine the use of rye as both a cover crop and a locally-sourced grain for our premium customers.
Podcast: How Kentucky Bourbon can Help Save the Planet
Walnut Grove Farm's Sam Halcomb is featured in an episode of the No Farms No Future podcast discussing a sustainability initiative related to Kentucky rye. The American Farmland Trust is working with farms like Walnut Grove on the Kentucky Commercial Rye Cover Crop Initiative in an effort to slow the impact of climate change and put Kentucky rye back into bourbon.