Bread and Granary receives organic wheat berries from Pretoria Fields

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August 27, 2016

Debbie Mazur and Chris Willis discuss locally grown products Friday after Willis delivered organic wheat to the Bread House and Granary in Albany. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

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With construction set to commence on Pretoria Fields’ 19,000-square-foot downtown craft brewery facility in the next 30 days and preparations ongoing for a groundbreaking ceremony, the brewery’s farm operation in southwest Dougherty County has already been put to good use.

Bread House staff wait to get bags of wheat from Chris Willis. The organic wheat was grown on Pretoria Farms’ Dougherty County farmland. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Pretoria Farms COO Chris Willis unloads bags of red wheat berries at the Bread House and Granary in Albany Friday. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Bread House staff member Brittany Cobb shows off newly milled wheat from organic berries delivered to the bakery from Pretoria Farms in Dougherty County. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Bread House and Granary owner Debbie Mazur said she has typically had to order organic wheat for her baked goods from Montana, one semi load at a time. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

Brittany Cobb shows some of the newly milled organic wheat delivered to the Bread House and Granary Friday by Pretoria Farms to Bread House owner Debbie Mazur. (Staff Photo: Carlton Fletcher)

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Carlton Fletcher

Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

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Bread and Granary receives organic wheat berries from Pretoria Fields

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