The Artemeersmolen windmill is a fully operational mill, working for hobby and professional bakers.
It produces an annual 250 tons of authentic certified organic flour and other bakery products.
Our mill is a professionally run windmill under the trade name FLOURPOWER BV and unique in the province of East-Flanders.
Most of the organic grain we mill is locally grown in Belgium.
All whole meal flours and white flours are stone milled on French Burr millstones, mainly by wind power.
We believe that good flour is a natural wonder on its own. So, no extra additives such as flour treatment agents or preservatives here!
All by-products from flour production are (re)used at our own mill in the (multi grain) bread-mixes.
This way we try to make a circulair food production process in which no good quality food is lost.
In 2023/2024 the mill will also be capable of producing green electricity from wind.
We will use this for powering our own milling equipment. Totally CO2-neutral and outstandingly local in origin.
We dare to say that for quality and outstanding service our mill is the best place to be!
All our bakery products are certified organic through CERTISYS.
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On all packages you can find the name of the farmer that supplied the grain.
Our mill's philosophy in one sentence: Working together with farmers and bakers for fair pricing.
We are a member of the MOLENAARS 2000 VZW millers group to safeguard the best possible quality of bakery products.
From an early age there was this fascination for the elusive but so powerful winds.
The way in which this primal force, miller and his windmill form a 'team' for almost ten centuries..
The 'feel' of how a miller and his mill have a bond when really running a windmill ..
I've studied 'milling & food technology' and the 'grain miller course' of the AKG, professional grinding for bakers and farmers at mills and industrial mills for almost 25 years (and counting).
A long story short, as a fellow professional miller said:
"You can't make a miller, he is born as one!"
(Evert Schuurman sr., 'De Kraai', Westbroek, NL)
As a 'partner in crime' I'm the one running all stuff 'non milling' at the mill.
Filling the many (small) bags for, shops, wholesalers, .. is my daily job.
I'm also the one that is in contact with private customers, new restaurants and artisan bakeries that want to purchase our products.
At Saturdays I'm running our 'mill shop' and giving tips and tricks on baking. For this I followed the baker's course at KISP Ghent, besides baking some bread and pastries of the years myself of course!
"When I worked at an organic health food store, I thought it was a pity that we learn so little about the producers of that good food. It is the short supply chain at our mill (from field to bakery) that is so fascinating!"
Frans (Soetkin's dad) is our allround engineer regarding electricity, computers and home PLC-automatisation.
He developed the installation to fill the numberous small bags.
The PLC-controller for the transport system, the auger and elevator system we use for transporting the grain from the silo's to the millstones, has been designed by him.
He also made the digital registration system for the millshop and did the design of the tracing & tracing system.
At the moment he is putting in the last details to get the wind powered generator in working order so we can generate electricity by wind in 2024.
(in one word: indispensable :-)
Kries (Soetkin's mom) helped a lot, especially in the early years, with the renovation of the mill house (painting, tearing down walls and floors, sorting and transporting waste, ..) and the mill (cleaning the inner walls).
Nothing was too much for her!
She tackled the overgrown garden around the mill and gave a lot of gardening advice.
She's great in good cooking and always ready to take care of her grand daughter at times when we are too busy working at the mill.
Nienke is the co-occupant of the 'house behind the mill'.
She's a hip chick and quite creative in paper, clay, plastic, ..
In addition to baking cookies and cakes, she is also a professional Mine-Crafter.
.. and then there's the four legged black devil, wannabe hunting dog and walking doorbell.
the 'Empress of the Bark'
the 'Queen of Disassembly'
the 'Producer of Sound'
(but she's especially good at being scared of her own shadow)
