Lea on her bicycle flour mill in college, circa 2001.
Lea's hand silk-screened flour sacks.
Cut out the fabric bicycle to make a little toy or pin cushion.
The bicycle flour mill in a "pedal power" theme exhibit at Rock Paper Scissors in Oakland, CA.
Rock Paper Scissors exhibit, opening night.
The flour mill mechanism. It's a simply pulley system connecting the axel of the bicycle to the wheel on the mill with a v-belt.
Lea's bicycle-ground flour cookies. For another exhibit featuring the bicycle mill.
The vintage cotton flour sack that inspired Lea's. A doll pattern to cut out and sew!
Pedal Power Flour
Flour ground by foot-power on a vintage exercise bicycle!
I rigged up this bicycle-powered flour mill back in college when I lived in a big co-op. We baked bread daily. I built another one for The Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley, California in 2003, and a third for a friend in 2005.
Made in 2002. I gifted my bicycle flour mill to Full Belly Farm (Capay Valley, CA) in 2018. Go see it in action at their Hoes Down Festival!
