Bob's Red Mill Products

By Lisa VanWilliams

This guy is awesome and so are his products. I found my pantry was getting filled with these packages and I wanted to know more about them. Bob Moore is an eighty-something year old guy that started this company with his wife back in 1978. He has a passion for health and he came up with this whole idea because he had read a book about old stone grinding flour mills that piqued his interest. He went out and collected 100-year old milling stones from North Carolina and other places. The "old -fashioned" mills were getting replaced with high-speed machinery that could produce faster. The company originally started out of Redding, California but after a move, and a fire, they ended up settling the business in Milwaukie, Oregon. The company is now estimated to have an annual revenue somewhere around 100 million.

So get this, when Bob turned 81 years old he surprised his employees by giving them total ownership of the company through an Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP). He is quoted,

 "It was just the right thing to do. I have people that have worked with me for over 30 years and each and every one of them deserve this."

Besides being an outstanding guy, the quality of these products is superb as it is the nations leader in milling whole-grain foods. They make certified organic, and gluten-free milled grain items and they produce over 400 types of different products like beans, seeds, nuts, dried fruit, & herbs. The company is also said to be one of Oregon's leading corporate philanthropists, making hundreds of thousands dollars in donations.

So, the next time you need some steel cut oats, gluten free dessert mix, any granola mix you can think of, or low carb almond flour look for Bob's Red Mill !!

Source: http://www.bobsredmill.com/about-bob.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%27s_Red_Mill