Come Mill Around
The Master Millers at Locke's Mill welcome everyone interested in old mills and fresh organic food to visit on the first and third Saturdays of the month, March through November. Come early and help set the runner stone on the bed stone. Pull the lever to open the millrace sluice and watch the massive waterwheel start turning. See how gears work and how clever millwrights use water and gravity to get more work done. Learn about different grains, taste freshly ground flour, and understand why organic, stone-milled flour may be old-fashioned, but is part of a local, healthy food system.

Locke's Mill Today
Grain Hopper
Truing the Millstones
Mill Stone showing high spots with dark paint

Certified Organic in 2017

Cleaned Whole Rye

Grain Sack with Miller's Knot

Organic Grain Batch Tags

Organic Rye in Hopper

Grain Scale

Water Mill Main Gear Train

Mill furniture: Damsel, Shoe, and Horse

Running runner-stone, damsel and horse

Grist (ground grain) coming out of spout

Power drive nut on bed-stone, runner stone at rest

Grinding Corn

Corn in Hopper

Great Spur or Pit Wheel

Water Wheel Hub and Arms

Outside again with wheel turning

Close up waterwheel arms

Lantern gear, pit wheel and tentering beam

Crane for lifting runner stone

Runner stone at rest

Bed stone drive gear (stone nut)

Bedstone

Mill furniture: Hopper, horse, and shoe adjustment

Crane lifting hole on runnner stone

Scale weight

Scale balance beam

Inside sifter-bolter

Tentering beam adjustment

Organic Rye coming into hopper

Water turning the 23' Fitz over-shot water wheel

Shoe adjustment

Milled Rye Grist

The Miller checks the grind

Tentering wheel

Sacks ready for market



































