This comprises a Grade II listed working watermill, producing specialist stoneground flours, operated by the only millwright and miller in the north of the UK. There is a community barn, re-purposed as an educational, arts and rural workspace where a year-round education and events programme takes place for all sectors of the community. The site also houses a 100kW hydropower turbine, producing green energy, situated on the weir of the River Bela, on which the mill stands that provides their only core income, and means the site is currently off-grid. With many well-established and successful educational projects for the elderly, children, teenagers and community baking groups, plus visiting school, college and university groups, Heron Corn Mill has become an exemplary model of good practice and sustainability. They came to us and explained that the existing bread oven range in their purpose-built shepherds hut bakery was over 10 years old and no longer working properly. The bakery and ovens are regularly used by 3 community bread groups and over this time this has added up to more than 2000 people, including the elderly, some with dementia, young people and a teenage group who bake to improve their mental health. We were very happy to help with a new one, and had to say the results looked and smelled fantastic!
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