Her neighbours called her mill a foolish dream for 5 years — until 2008 left them speechless...

What do you do when everyone around you says you've lost your way — and the only thing keeping you going is a handwritten ledger and a second-hand mill in your barn? In 2003, a widow in rural Ontario converted her best field to a nearly forgotten wheat variety and started milling her own flour. Her neighbours watched. Then they laughed. Then came the summer of 2008. How one woman's quiet, methodical approach to soil health transformed a sliding farm into a model her entire county would follow The science behind heritage grain and why decades of conventional farming had been quietly draining the land What happened during the driest July in years — and why Agnes's field stood when everything around it didn't