Teffola Blog

Want to listen to this blog post instead? Click here.  Before discussing the history of Black farming in Michigan and the Midwest, I’d like to ackn...

Julie, from The Purple Beet, and I wanted to do something for the healthcare workers in the coronavirus intensive care units across metro Detroit a...

Maple Drive Farms, the official name of our farm, has been predominantly a cash crop farm from the beginning. That means that we sell our crops (co...

We’re entering our, hopefully, last month of construction! Now that the insulation has gone in (all thanks to some very warm days in January) and a...

We get this question a lot. And while it is a yes or no question, there’s much more that goes into it. Here are the facts: No we aren’t organic. We...

We’ve officially broken ground on the cleaning and processing facility! There used to be two silos that had to come down to make room for the new b...

My parents have been debating this new barn/facility for several months. It’s a big decision. 2,400 square feet and nearly two stories high would g...

The fall of 2017 was filled with jerky starts and attempts. Do you ever feel that way? I had been hung up on this idea about energy bites made with...

Teffola was invented after realizing our teff flour sales on Amazon weren't working as well as we had hoped. I started playing with teff in the kitchen and came up with a delicious nutty teff granola full of flavor. Now the award winning Teffola is known for being tasty, healthy and fresh.

Our first year planting teff on our family farm in southern Michigan.

Move over millet, amaranth and bulgur - there’s a new obscure ancient grain on the scene. Teff, or eragrostis tef, is the world’s tiniest grain native to Ethiopia.