As a hobby, David Hinson became fascinated with antique food production methods and equipment back in the 1980’s after purchasing a farm in his hometown of Albemarle, North Carolina. Home cooked molasses and fresh pressed apple cider were the first products Dave made and in doing so, it occurred to him that these foods were exactly as they would have been, by manufacturing methods and taste, hundreds of years earlier. He was hooked on the idea of recreating authentic tasting foods with pure ingredients, “prepared in the ways passed down from ‘The Old School.’” Around 1989 Dave purchased an antique stone burr mill. Building a small structure to house the equipment, Dave began the tedious process of restoring the equipment and learning milling. In 1992, Old School Brand™ began selling our first grits and corn meal products. Since Dave passed from cancer in 2010, his wife and son run the mill and continue to produce quality products with wholesome ingredients, including non-GMO grits ground on the antique mill.