Il Mulino Giorginaro e i grani antichi siciliani - Sicilian ancient wheat and Giorginaro water mill

Oggi vi porto a visitare l'ultimo mulino attivo di 14 che anticamente esistevano a Novara di Sicilia. E' il Mulino Giorginaro, un mulino ad acqua a ruota orizzontale, che macina grani antichi siciliani. Trovate l'articolo di approfondimento qui: https://www.sicilianicreativiincucina.it/made-in-italy-grani-antichi-il-mulino-giorginaro-a-novara-di-sicilia

ENGLISH ARTICLE HERE: https://www.sicilianicreativiincucina.it/made-in-Italy-ancient-grains-mill-giorginaro-in-novara-di-sicilia/?lang=en
ENGLISH TEXT OF THE VIDEO:
In Novara di Sicilia the water almost never fails. At the Molino Giorginaro the stream of the San Giorgio torrent serves to move the ancient horizontal wheel of the only mill that remained active on the border between the Peloritani Mountains and the Nebrodi Mountains. Until the 1960s, 14 mills were in operation here. Only one remains today.
In a green oasis curated by Ugo Affannato, flowers and fruits grow luxuriantly. Inside the structure dating back to the 1400s, the best grains are processed and transformed into flour.
Mario, Ugo's son, managed to convince the local farmers to sow the wheat again in the fields under the Salvatesta rock. After 25 years of neglect, ancient Sicilian grains are now cultivated: Majorca, Russello, perciasacchi and timilia. It is the power of water to give energy to the horizontal wooden wheel, which moves a millstone in natural stone to the upper floor. A system of locks and pipelines allows water to be recycled when the San Giorgio torrent dries up in summer.

The Mulino Giorginaro still uses nineteenth-century tools and traditional methods to transform wheat into wholemeal flour. Slowly the beans fall into the millstone and, at most, 20 kilos of flour are produced in an hour. Mario's dream is a live and productive mill, not a motionless museum to visit or admire. In Novara di Sicilia, called the Stone Village, about 7 thousand people a year visit the Giorginaro Mill, to learn about the ancient Sicilian milling tradition. A heritage that the Affannato family seeks to preserve and pass on. The future of the mill today passes through tourism: among the projects, that of building a wood-fired oven that turns wheat into hot bread to be enjoyed, perhaps with a slice of Maiorchino cheese.

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