ANCIENT BELGIAN WATERMILL SEES FLOUR DEMAND SPIKE

HOLLANGE: As Europeans have sought stress relief from baking while under lockdown, one of Belgium’s last watermills still producing flour has seen a surge in demand for its produce. French-born Belgian miller Adrienne Delacroix, whose mill in the Ardennes region of Belgium near Luxembourg has been producing flour for six centuries, said she had to rely on a network of small shops and online sales to supply eager consumers stuck at home and rediscovering baking.

“We’ve witnessed an explosion in demand from individuals wanting flour,” Delacroix told Reuters from her mill, whose two large water wheels are powered by a tributary of the river Strange, and grind the wheat grain.