To turn a plant into something resembling milk, it must be either soaked, drained, rinsed, and milled into a thick paste, or dried, and milled into flour.
Our primary cargoes on the Apollonia are brewers malt, oak logs for mushroom cultivation, bulk flour that was grown and milled right here in the Hudson Valley and other grains.
Whereas the hulled spikelets of spelt, emmer, and einkorn need to be dried, heated, or milled before you can break open the hulls and get to the good stuff.