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Texted by Brent D. Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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flour\u2022ist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

() \/flou rest\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

noun<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A person with an affinity for the discovery of heritage grains and the craft of baking. A person who concentrates primarily on the experimentation of baking with fresh flour. A retailer or grower of milled grains and dry goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not store-bought flour. Flourist is Canada\u2019s only retail source for 100 percent traceable grains, beans and freshly milled flours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flourist co-founder Shira McDermott was a child of the \u201970s. Growing up in a hippie commune on Gabriola Island off the coast of Vancouver, she was raised as a vegetarian with a deep understanding of growing everything that you eat. As Shira says when reflecting on her childhood, \u201cEverything we needed was more or less, right there in the garden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After working in the health food business for many years, spending 13 years in the organic grocery business and six years in the specialty coffee business, Shira started blogging vegetarian recipes and teaching low-income children how to cook as she saw a lack of accessibility at the intersection of cooking healthily and affordability. Enter co-founder Janna Bishop. Janna\u2019s stepfather Bob Wallace is a seventh-generation farmer working his family farm on the prairies of Canada which all together equal 160 million square miles \u2014 bigger than the size of France. In 2014, in a chance encounter over a bowl of delicious chickpeas, Shira and Janna met, and the idea for Flourist was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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