Like many foods that have been around for centuries, the grits available in supermarkets, although serviceable, are distant cousins of their forebears. Grits are a corn product: They are derived from ...

Greg and Betsy Johnsman didn't just buy a mill, they were "entrusted" with it. That's how he describes the purchase five years ago of a portable electric mill from a man in Saluda, who had it stored ...

THE GRIND: Jim Barkley built a water-powered gristmill on his Weaverville farm where he grows heirloom, non-GMO corn for the purpose of making grits. It’s a cool, gray morning in Weaverville as we ...

DOUGLAS, GA. | Once a miller’s daughter, Jackie Cartee is now the miller. She and her husband, Ronnie, who unabashedly calls her the expert, operate Jackie’s Grist Mill on a dirt road off Georgia 158.

You may have seen them popping up on restaurant menus around Columbia over the past year: Congaree Milling Co.’s hominy grits. And unless you’re a maize scholar, you probably didn’t think much of it.

On Jon Stauffer’s 25-acre farm in Pauline, about 150 chickens strut between swaying sunflower stalks as a handful of cows graze in the hot summer sun. Sun hemp and buckwheat grow at the base of short ...