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Top restaurant links up with grain drying firm to produce home-grown flour

Boutique hotel The Newt in Somerset embarks on journey to process heritage wheat

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Soon the Newt in Somerset will be using home-grown wheat as an ingredient
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Soon the Newt in Somerset will be using home-grown wheat as an ingredient

One of the UK's most popular boutique hotels is to add home-grown flour to its ingredients list thanks to a new partnership with an agricultural grain drying and storage company. The move, which has...

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