BOX ELDER — A project nearly a decade in the making is providing food sovereignty on the Rocky Boy's Reservation through a new flour mill that processes locally grown Kamut wheat.

Tribal and agricultural leaders recently celebrated the ribbon cutting for the mill on the Stone Child College campus, which overcomes challenges including COVID-19 delays to mill an ancient grain that legendary farmer Bob Quinn made famous on his ranch near Big Sandy almost 40 years ago.

Tim McGonigal reports - watch the video: Montana Ag Network: Stone Child College dedicates flour mill

"It's the ability to take care of our own people with food and it's, cultural foods or natural foods," said Jason Belcourt, Rocky Boy sustainability coordinator.

The mill processes organically grown Kamut wheat into flour,

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