Totally agree Cam was hilarious! I can see him in your boys! Same quirky. I think the bread looked great! Fantastic feeling eating something everyone helped grow!
If you were living in the day and age where people were always food self sufficient, the appearance of it wouldn't matter. It looked delicious and the boys liked it. A++
Here in Canada I learned that 1 bushel of wheat makes 90 loaves of bread. There was a price fixing scandal here with Loblaws and bread prices have never recovered. It was a reminder to folks that those multi-nationals are not our friends. Great video, and especially loved the ending. Cam is such a great sport. Thanks so much for all of your hard work, and for sharing it with us. You are all appreciated.
Your account of growing wheat was so interesting! My husband talks about growing wheat someday - I don’t know if we ever will, but seeing your process is helpful! 😊
I'm on Team Hard White for just this reason. I think one of the reasons a lot of people associated whole wheat with stodgy baked goods is the heaviness of the hard reds, especially after it has sat in a bag at the store. I serve people bake goods from fresh-ground hard white all the time and they don't even know they are eating whole grains. It's not like cake like white flour, just delicious! Love the ingenuity with the drill and bucket....haven't see that before.
What a great learning experience. It's crazy how much space it would actually take to grow a year supply of wheat for a family. Thanks for showing us your process. Your bread looks great!
Oh i so love the fact that you just dont show all your sucessful things you also show when you fail, Keep doing what you are doing because its awesome, nd i love to watch your video`s and also Watch Cam being goofy lol Thank you for sharing ,Amazing as always
Wonderful video! loved each step and those taste testers were quite handsome 🥰❗ and the very end......what an adorable baby Riggs is~! Beautiful Family!💚💗💙
So cool that you grew your own wheat !! It must have felt quite rewarding to grow, harvest, grind and then bake :) I also wanted to add that one of the best fruit trees I have grown (here in New Zealand) is Nashi Pear trees. They seem low maintenance and have a lot of fruit even when they are small + the flavor is so good. Blessings to you all ~ Linda
I have threshed similar to you, but with some minor improvements….the rod that has the flail attached is long enough that it can pass through a hole in the bottom of the bucket. I reinforced the hole in the bucket with a block of wood. There is a matching hole on the lid of the bucket - just barely bigger in diameter than the rod so no grains can escape. The holes both on the top and bottom of the bucket means that when the drill spins, the flail is perfectly centered in the bucket and you don’t have to worry about it whacking the sides of the bucket a whole bunch. A variable speed leaf blower is also pretty efficient for winnowing, once you get the hang of it.
That looked like a fun experience and you learned a lot from it! I think it’s pretty cool to see people make a meal from scratch with everything grown from their property.
Thank you for sharing some of your results. I also have created some less than perfect results, and the bread still tastes good. I like the "bloopers" with your husband. Your presentation is fun to watch as you all share the entire process in a way we can relate to as amateurs. I'm looking forward to more episodes.
Loved the end! 😂 That’s comforting to know that you use half bread flour. I started grinding my own wheat this year and I do like a whole wheat bread with all hard white wheat, but for buns, and other baked goods, I feel like it’s too heavy. It makes me feel good that you use half white. 😄
I've had my "Wonder Mill" for 14 years with no problem. I've really liked baking with Kamut ( this is the brand name) flour. I get the grains at Azure Standard. Your bread is beautiful and your home grown wheat is beyond impressive. Lee
Love this. I wonder, using the plastic 5 gallon bucket to separate the wheat from the chaff might get microplastic into the wheat. I hope not. I saw how you use a fan and so hopefully any microplastic would fly away, but maybe not. 🤷🏻♂️ perhaps a metal bucket for that process would be better… and louder.
The bread looks amazing! I think it's so fun to grow grain, but not any fun at all to harvest, thresh or winnow it. You got a great yield. With a little more equipment, you could probably speed it up more. I really enjoyed the hull-less barley from Baker Creek. It made delicious pancakes.
Soooo Cool!!! Yep there are many things I’ve taught myself to do - I don’t use them all But If needed I know how to & can do it. 👍🏼 Thanks for the lessons🌾 & Laughs!!🤣😂
I am in UK and I have found the easiest fruit to grow is Rhubarb. It needs loads of water in hot weather but likes cooler climates and copes with snow. Main thing is that after about 3yrs, if you crop it sparingly in year 1 and 2, you get massive crops of it for very little care, except mulching and watering in hot weather.
Loved the ending with a smile! LOL I jumped up to stop your son from putting his finger in the fan - so glad he was OK. I didn't really help but it was automatic after having kids, grands and greats. The bread did look yummy and I could imagine it toasted and dipped in oil and herbs. Made my mouth water. The threshing tool he made looks great!
I was so excited to see how the bread was going to turn out. Using a brand new type of grain is always a bit of a learning curve, I think. The crumb looked decent. To me the hard red wheat always has a bit more invasive flavor than the hard white flour. I so admire your experiment!
I clicked on the video right away and then life happened so I'm just now finishing it 😂 Your bread looked yummy to me 🤤😋 You are really doing so wonderful with all that you have accomplished so far. I look forward to the day when you show us your berries and orchard. At least what you harvest...big or small. Ok...now I am going to go back and watch again ❤️
What an awesome outcome with growing your own wheat! I think the bread looked quite nice and clearly you have awesome taste testers. I think it’s safe to say the added humor made this an all around awesome video!
Check out the Farmer's Friend Greens Harvester, my husband and I wondered if it wouldn't work to harvest the grain heads - we use this tool to harvest our greens and it works wonderful with a battery drill as the source of power. Might not work, but I wondered if it would. Wheat stalks might be too tough.
Loved this video. Thanks so much. I learnt lots of tips to harvest our small scale crop and also the bread making. I love vicarious learning and thanks for keeping it real. Debs from Down Under.
Seeing y'all's videos gives me hope to continue. We're working towards buying land but we're currently in a mobile home. I have a small greenhouse, An aero garden inside for herbs, and 2 raised beds. I'm learning foods and it's hard with working and 2 kids and trying to finish college. Thank you what y'all do and the transparency with the entire process.
It would look nice if you turned your circular driveway in front of your house into a giant melon patch -- watermelon, cantaloupe, etc, etc. Or even a large blueberry bush area. Less lawn to mow! And the experimental grain looks like a fun project! I live down the way from King Arthur Flour Company so I just go there for my flour but I always wanted to try to grow my own grains.
You guys did great! I think you probably lost a lot more grain than you realized in the winnowing process because you had your fan on high and weren't using anything to catch the extra grain that didn't make it into the bucket. Next time try winnowing on a breezy day over a large tarp so that you catch any that falls out. Then you can sift that. Also your method of pulling the heads off the stalks looked like it was leaving a good amount on the ground. You might try harvesting the whole stalk with a scythe and then make a bunch with your hands and while holding it over your threshing bucket use some sharp scissors to cut the heads off into the bucket. Just some thoughts to try next time. :)
Wow! That looks like a success to me. I love that your whole family works together in your projects. Thank you for sharing. I found you thru garden content but keep coming back for the positive content. Cam is adorable at the end. Love that you are authentic. ❤️
Every time I see something new, it gives me more of an urge to get more land. There's only so much I can do in a subdivision with a lot of trees and a 1/2 acre, lol. Pretty interesting video, I've never seen the whole process even though it's simple.
You have a beautiful family. I love watching your videos. So well done. Your way of doing your garden is so neat and tidy. Cute young men tasting your bead. God bless.
Growing and harvesting wheat on a small scale, and turning it into delicious homemade bread, is an amazing achievement! Your dedication to every step of the process-from cultivating the wheat to baking the bread-reflects a true passion for sustainable living and craftsmanship. It’s inspiring to see how you create something so wholesome and satisfying from scratch. And I am Floating Village Life, Hit follow and let's explore together!
❤ the cam bloopers! Keep them in every video you do as this just says, not everyone is perfect in front of a camera. Well done on the wheat! May I suggest having a dedicated plot just for wheat?
Fresh wheat has such a higher hydration point because it hasn't been sitting for who knows how long in open warehouses. As a terrible baker, I can't imagine how different it would be to work with fresh homegrown wheat!😅
Great video. I love the step by step instructions from both of you. Your bread was no failure but a success. It may not have been what you expected but it turned out well.❤🎉🎉🎉
Testing growing something new on a small scale is such a great learning experience. We did it with Cannellini beans this year. I wanted to see how much I would get per a certain amount of space. It was a comically small harvest. But now I know how to grow them and most importantly they made the best white bean hummus I have ever had!!
I think it is something I would try---just for the information if for no other reason! Sometimes the information is worth the work. I think you just tried the wrong type of wheat for making bread. Now with what you learned you can do more research and try a different type of wheat. God bless y'all and keep growing!!!!
The Idea for the wheat thresher is amazing. But if I would build one for myself I would use another material for the bucket since I would be worried about micro plastic getting in my food. Tha abrasion oh the thresher definitly produces micro plastic in a plastic bucket.
i thought your loaves looked perfect,,,more for a dipping bread for soups, and a garlic olive oil dip, but each to our own,,,you know what to tweak and make perfect xx
We didn’t grow wheat, but we did grow sorghum. To thress it we put it all in a bucked and added some old hard laundry balls then put the lid back on. I know others have used tennis balls for this too. Then we shook the bucket. It only took about 5 minutes of shaking for the seeds to get out. Then we did the winnowing like you did. Last I froze the seeds for 72 hours to kill any potential bug eggs, and last we freeze dried it. I have baked with it twice and we love the nutty flavor. Sorghum isn’t the only thing we grow for flour. We also grow cassava plus I grow some unsweetened pumpkins for flour as well. We also grow a lot of sweet potatoes which I take a part of and make into either starch or flour. Lastly I like to add a lot of nuts and seeds to our breads, it improves the texture and add extra nutrients.
That was really useful and informative, I’ve been interested in food self sufficiency for some time now and one of the big questions I had was around small scale grain production. As an extension I’ve been trying to research feed grain production as well do you have any thoughts on this or know of any resources in look at. I’m also researching soil science and been looking into how monoculture if bad for soil biology so thinking of mixed grain planting (as it for animal feed) any thoughts on that? There’s a company here in the Uk that’s promoting bean and grain mixes with a harvesting method that separates the two products, the theory being that the slightly higher cost of harvesting is more than offset by the increased yield as a result of improved soil biodiversity.
'Why do I try to sound smart' had me rolling XDD Your husband is just too funny! XDDD Tbh, I tried to bake bread a dozen times, but never get good results. Don't know why... used all kinds of flour to try, figured out that rye bread does need much more flour then wheat bread... (learned it the hard way XDDD). But most of the times IF a bread is kinda okay when it comes out of the oven it goes hard in no time.... sometimes even in just a few hours. ;_; How do you store your bread and how long does it last before it goes hard/bad? Have a wonderful weekend!
We store the bread in a plastic bag and it usually stays good for 4-5 days. Like all bread though, it’s best the first day and then gets harder and drier with time.
If you ever get a slightly bigger plot size you can use some of the chinese or japenses small scale tools. It helps you keep the hay as well. And it's faster to cut it off instead of clipping. Or if you want ot go fully diy you can use a drill to take the heads off much faster. There's a few plans for it online. So the info you got can go either way. It really depends on size of the plot. But a hand sythce and the drilll is so much faster and you can do it with 1 person quickly. works with rice as well. A lot of time you get home steader information. But actually what you should do for more realivent info is Chinese and Japanese farming practices because they do small scale well. (the drill havest came from the USA though) It's almost the same system you showed in the video. It's even easier if you use more historical grains that are longer. The short grains don't shatter as well in it. Or at least that's what I found. If you make it up to 1/2 acre grain crop it's worth looking into how small holders in other countries do it because they have developement and a lot more small holders. There's just a wealth of knowelege that's mostly been abadon by everyone in the USA except maybe the Amish. And even they have abadon more than people think.
the cultivation of bread grains. You can cut the wheat with a scythe and then tie it into bundles. Then he stops for a bit to mature. You can then thresh it on a flat surface with a flail. Maybe you can also find a wind sweep that can be used to clean all the seeds wonderfully. In Germany you can still find these old devices in many attics or barns ruclips.net/video/zHYBxa6N2Es/видео.html
Yes. Fruit takes years to be established but if you grew up born in the 70’s it was always a grain takes multiple acres and a shoot ton of effort that no one wants to put into it. But health benefits. You have to establish that between your 99% meat and acreage needed with farm implement needed to be self sufficient on a commodity that isn’t easy to obtain. Wheat berries. Whether white or wheat. Something NO ONE is making themselves is the diffidence at this point whether or not containments enter their storage compared to yours and is such a basic staple that could keep you alive come rain or shine, lack there of or to much. Every culture in life began with its basic meat and the ability to make bread.
Yes, I have a recipe here. www.theseasonalhomestead.com/how-to-make-whole-wheat-sourdough-bread/ The recipe has options for more water to make an artisan bread and less water which will make more of a sandwich bread.
I wonder if the bread needs less water because the wheat is so fresh, it hasn’t been sitting on a shelf for months or years . Maybe I am, wrong. Just a thought
😂Cam, we loved the out takes!
Totally agree Cam was hilarious! I can see him in your boys! Same quirky. I think the bread looked great! Fantastic feeling eating something everyone helped grow!
Agree, more outtakes!!
The best😂
😂 Your bread “failure” is far better than my very best effort bread making experience.
That was my thought too😆
If you were living in the day and age where people were always food self sufficient, the appearance of it wouldn't matter. It looked delicious and the boys liked it. A++
You're so hard on yourself, both loaves looked great! :) So fun to see the whole process. Thanks guys!
Here in Canada I learned that 1 bushel of wheat makes 90 loaves of bread. There was a price fixing scandal here with Loblaws and bread prices have never recovered. It was a reminder to folks that those multi-nationals are not our friends.
Great video, and especially loved the ending. Cam is such a great sport. Thanks so much for all of your hard work, and for sharing it with us. You are all appreciated.
Your account of growing wheat was so interesting! My husband talks about growing wheat someday - I don’t know if we ever will, but seeing your process is helpful! 😊
I'm on Team Hard White for just this reason. I think one of the reasons a lot of people associated whole wheat with stodgy baked goods is the heaviness of the hard reds, especially after it has sat in a bag at the store. I serve people bake goods from fresh-ground hard white all the time and they don't even know they are eating whole grains. It's not like cake like white flour, just delicious! Love the ingenuity with the drill and bucket....haven't see that before.
What a great learning experience. It's crazy how much space it would actually take to grow a year supply of wheat for a family. Thanks for showing us your process. Your bread looks great!
Oh i so love the fact that you just dont show all your sucessful things you also show when you fail, Keep doing what you are doing because its awesome, nd i love to watch your video`s and also Watch Cam being goofy lol Thank you for sharing ,Amazing as always
Thanks for those outtakes! They made me laugh all night long or all day. 😂🤣😂
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My wife has had her wondermill for for about 12 years, she lost the top thing too and just uses a dish towel as well.
Wonderful video! loved each step and those taste testers were quite handsome 🥰❗ and the very end......what an adorable baby Riggs is~! Beautiful Family!💚💗💙
So cool that you grew your own wheat !! It must have felt quite rewarding to grow, harvest, grind and then bake :)
I also wanted to add that one of the best fruit trees I have grown (here in New Zealand) is Nashi Pear trees. They seem low maintenance and have a lot of fruit even when they are small + the flavor is so good. Blessings to you all ~ Linda
I have threshed similar to you, but with some minor improvements….the rod that has the flail attached is long enough that it can pass through a hole in the bottom of the bucket. I reinforced the hole in the bucket with a block of wood. There is a matching hole on the lid of the bucket - just barely bigger in diameter than the rod so no grains can escape. The holes both on the top and bottom of the bucket means that when the drill spins, the flail is perfectly centered in the bucket and you don’t have to worry about it whacking the sides of the bucket a whole bunch.
A variable speed leaf blower is also pretty efficient for winnowing, once you get the hang of it.
I mill smaller batches of wheat berries & then keep the flour in the fridge or freezer if im not going to use it up within a week or two.
It was worth watching to the end for those outtakes!! 😂The bread looked delicious!
That looked like a fun experience and you learned a lot from it! I think it’s pretty cool to see people make a meal from scratch with everything grown from their property.
God, thank you for this family! They nice and fun. Amen.
Thank you for sharing some of your results. I also have created some less than perfect results, and the bread still tastes good. I like the "bloopers" with your husband. Your presentation is fun to watch as you all share the entire process in a way we can relate to as amateurs. I'm looking forward to more episodes.
Great and very interesting video
Loved the end! 😂 That’s comforting to know that you use half bread flour. I started grinding my own wheat this year and I do like a whole wheat bread with all hard white wheat, but for buns, and other baked goods, I feel like it’s too heavy. It makes me feel good that you use half white. 😄
I've had my "Wonder Mill" for 14 years with no problem. I've really liked baking with Kamut ( this is the brand name) flour. I get the grains at Azure Standard. Your bread is beautiful and your home grown wheat is beyond impressive. Lee
I saw a RUclips short showing a lawn tractor size combine in Japan or China. I started to covet.
Love this. I wonder, using the plastic 5 gallon bucket to separate the wheat from the chaff might get microplastic into the wheat. I hope not. I saw how you use a fan and so hopefully any microplastic would fly away, but maybe not. 🤷🏻♂️ perhaps a metal bucket for that process would be better… and louder.
Yes, probably better to use metal!
The bread looked great to me. Love how your husband and children make you laugh. We all need a good laugh once in a while.❤
The bread looks amazing! I think it's so fun to grow grain, but not any fun at all to harvest, thresh or winnow it. You got a great yield. With a little more equipment, you could probably speed it up more. I really enjoyed the hull-less barley from Baker Creek. It made delicious pancakes.
Bread still looks delicious. The Cam bloopers at the end though....:)
Soooo Cool!!! Yep there are many things I’ve taught myself to do - I don’t use them all But If needed I know how to & can do it. 👍🏼 Thanks for the lessons🌾 & Laughs!!🤣😂
Hi baby! He is so sweet ❤ this was such a fun video and experiment.
I am in UK and I have found the easiest fruit to grow is Rhubarb. It needs loads of water in hot weather but likes cooler climates and copes with snow. Main thing is that after about 3yrs, if you crop it sparingly in year 1 and 2, you get massive crops of it for very little care, except mulching and watering in hot weather.
Love the bloopers 😅
Deeply appreciate Cam's brain fart moments at the end! 😆
Loved the ending with a smile! LOL I jumped up to stop your son from putting his finger in the fan - so glad he was OK. I didn't really help but it was automatic after having kids, grands and greats. The bread did look yummy and I could imagine it toasted and dipped in oil and herbs. Made my mouth water. The threshing tool he made looks great!
I actually said out loud while listening to the video "don't put your finger in the fan" - my husband was like what???
@@delanietrusty8051 That's funny! I had to keep telling myself "she would have cut it out if he got hurt".
That’s was awesome 👍🌺🌼🌸
Wow this is so creative 😊😊❤❤
I was so excited to see how the bread was going to turn out. Using a brand new type of grain is always a bit of a learning curve, I think. The crumb looked decent. To me the hard red wheat always has a bit more invasive flavor than the hard white flour. I so admire your experiment!
I think your bread looks great! Thanks for sharing your experience!❤
Both loaves looked amazing. Kudos to you! Val C
I clicked on the video right away and then life happened so I'm just now finishing it 😂 Your bread looked yummy to me 🤤😋 You are really doing so wonderful with all that you have accomplished so far. I look forward to the day when you show us your berries and orchard. At least what you harvest...big or small.
Ok...now I am going to go back and watch again ❤️
What an awesome outcome with growing your own wheat! I think the bread looked quite nice and clearly you have awesome taste testers. I think it’s safe to say the added humor made this an all around awesome video!
Check out the Farmer's Friend Greens Harvester, my husband and I wondered if it wouldn't work to harvest the grain heads - we use this tool to harvest our greens and it works wonderful with a battery drill as the source of power. Might not work, but I wondered if it would. Wheat stalks might be too tough.
That is a very interesting idea… would be worth trying! Thank you!
How exciting! Something I would love to do. Your loaves turned out perfect because you did it all yourself and you were able to enjoy them.
Great video. Love the outakes. 😂 LOL.
Also try winter wheat. But you’re right, different wheat varieties will have different results.
Thank you so much for including Cam's outtakes at the end😂❤
Cam is a hoot. Loved the bloopers at the end. Well done on the wheat! Loved seeing the process!
Loved this video. Thanks so much. I learnt lots of tips to harvest our small scale crop and also the bread making. I love vicarious learning and thanks for keeping it real. Debs from Down Under.
Great laugh at the end with the bloopers 😂 I love watching your channel! Wish it was more often 😜
Seeing y'all's videos gives me hope to continue. We're working towards buying land but we're currently in a mobile home. I have a small greenhouse, An aero garden inside for herbs, and 2 raised beds. I'm learning foods and it's hard with working and 2 kids and trying to finish college. Thank you what y'all do and the transparency with the entire process.
cam’s laugh is infectious 😊
I have watched a lot of homestead videos since 2020 and I must say your production value is wonderful it reminds me of shows on the PBS channel Create
Great video useful information. Steve from the Isle of Wight uk.
I agree with you on the fruit versus grain part, and i loved the out takes.
It would look nice if you turned your circular driveway in front of your house into a giant melon patch -- watermelon, cantaloupe, etc, etc. Or even a large blueberry bush area. Less lawn to mow! And the experimental grain looks like a fun project! I live down the way from King Arthur Flour Company so I just go there for my flour but I always wanted to try to grow my own grains.
You guys did great! I think you probably lost a lot more grain than you realized in the winnowing process because you had your fan on high and weren't using anything to catch the extra grain that didn't make it into the bucket. Next time try winnowing on a breezy day over a large tarp so that you catch any that falls out. Then you can sift that. Also your method of pulling the heads off the stalks looked like it was leaving a good amount on the ground. You might try harvesting the whole stalk with a scythe and then make a bunch with your hands and while holding it over your threshing bucket use some sharp scissors to cut the heads off into the bucket. Just some thoughts to try next time. :)
Wow! That looks like a success to me. I love that your whole family works together in your projects. Thank you for sharing. I found you thru garden content but keep coming back for the positive content. Cam is adorable at the end. Love that you are authentic. ❤️
Way to go! Very impressive.
I ordered some wheat to try growing in the backyard. I really appreciate you showing us the process. ❤
Every time I see something new, it gives me more of an urge to get more land. There's only so much I can do in a subdivision with a lot of trees and a 1/2 acre, lol. Pretty interesting video, I've never seen the whole process even though it's simple.
You have a beautiful family. I love watching your videos. So well done. Your way of doing your garden is so neat and tidy. Cute young men tasting your bead. God bless.
Growing and harvesting wheat on a small scale, and turning it into delicious homemade bread, is an amazing achievement! Your dedication to every step of the process-from cultivating the wheat to baking the bread-reflects a true passion for sustainable living and craftsmanship. It’s inspiring to see how you create something so wholesome and satisfying from scratch. And I am Floating Village Life, Hit follow and let's explore together!
Always a nice surprise when your videos are posted!
❤ the cam bloopers! Keep them in every video you do as this just says, not everyone is perfect in front of a camera.
Well done on the wheat! May I suggest having a dedicated plot just for wheat?
Wow what an interesting process growing your own wheat! Thank you for posting! Cam did a good job explaining the thrashing tool!
The outtakes were awesome! Love your videos so much!
Interesting, thanks for sharing
Fresh wheat has such a higher hydration point because it hasn't been sitting for who knows how long in open warehouses. As a terrible baker, I can't imagine how different it would be to work with fresh homegrown wheat!😅
Great video. I love the step by step instructions from both of you. Your bread was no failure but a success. It may not have been what you expected but it turned out well.❤🎉🎉🎉
Testing growing something new on a small scale is such a great learning experience. We did it with Cannellini beans this year. I wanted to see how much I would get per a certain amount of space. It was a comically small harvest. But now I know how to grow them and most importantly they made the best white bean hummus I have ever had!!
Your fruits look so fresh and delicious
Loved the video, the end 😂😂😂😂😂 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Love from the UK x
That was great! I kept thinking about the actual learning process for the kids! Good job you two! Riggs is looking like Cams clone!!
We have two, a his and her Wondermill. We've had ours for ~17 years.
I think it is something I would try---just for the information if for no other reason! Sometimes the information is worth the work. I think you just tried the wrong type of wheat for making bread. Now with what you learned you can do more research and try a different type of wheat. God bless y'all and keep growing!!!!
The Idea for the wheat thresher is amazing. But if I would build one for myself I would use another material for the bucket since I would be worried about micro plastic getting in my food. Tha abrasion oh the thresher definitly produces micro plastic in a plastic bucket.
The bread looks great! Don't be hard on yourself x
i thought your loaves looked perfect,,,more for a dipping bread for soups, and a garlic olive oil dip, but each to our own,,,you know what to tweak and make perfect xx
Thank you so much for sharing your experience!!
We didn’t grow wheat, but we did grow sorghum. To thress it we put it all in a bucked and added some old hard laundry balls then put the lid back on. I know others have used tennis balls for this too. Then we shook the bucket. It only took about 5 minutes of shaking for the seeds to get out. Then we did the winnowing like you did. Last I froze the seeds for 72 hours to kill any potential bug eggs, and last we freeze dried it.
I have baked with it twice and we love the nutty flavor.
Sorghum isn’t the only thing we grow for flour. We also grow cassava plus I grow some unsweetened pumpkins for flour as well. We also grow a lot of sweet potatoes which I take a part of and make into either starch or flour. Lastly I like to add a lot of nuts and seeds to our breads, it improves the texture and add extra nutrients.
Thank you. This video was very helpful
"perhaps I should edit this part" 🤣
Great video- thank you ♥️
That was really useful and informative, I’ve been interested in food self sufficiency for some time now and one of the big questions I had was around small scale grain production. As an extension I’ve been trying to research feed grain production as well do you have any thoughts on this or know of any resources in look at. I’m also researching soil science and been looking into how monoculture if bad for soil biology so thinking of mixed grain planting (as it for animal feed) any thoughts on that? There’s a company here in the Uk that’s promoting bean and grain mixes with a harvesting method that separates the two products, the theory being that the slightly higher cost of harvesting is more than offset by the increased yield as a result of improved soil biodiversity.
A scythe with a grain cradle would make quick work of harvesting your small patch of grain
I love you! You guys are darling😂😂
me when i try to record yt videos. i sound just like your husband at the end hahahahaha love your videos. :)
'Why do I try to sound smart' had me rolling XDD Your husband is just too funny! XDDD
Tbh, I tried to bake bread a dozen times, but never get good results. Don't know why... used all kinds of flour to try, figured out that rye bread does need much more flour then wheat bread... (learned it the hard way XDDD). But most of the times IF a bread is kinda okay when it comes out of the oven it goes hard in no time.... sometimes even in just a few hours. ;_; How do you store your bread and how long does it last before it goes hard/bad?
Have a wonderful weekend!
We store the bread in a plastic bag and it usually stays good for 4-5 days. Like all bread though, it’s best the first day and then gets harder and drier with time.
@@TheSeasonalHomestead Thank you so much! :)
The ending 😂
Do you have a method for threshing and grinding the wheat if you have no power?
Yes, we have a hand crank wheat grinder and threshing can be done the old fashioned way.
If you ever get a slightly bigger plot size you can use some of the chinese or japenses small scale tools. It helps you keep the hay as well. And it's faster to cut it off instead of clipping. Or if you want ot go fully diy you can use a drill to take the heads off much faster. There's a few plans for it online. So the info you got can go either way. It really depends on size of the plot. But a hand sythce and the drilll is so much faster and you can do it with 1 person quickly. works with rice as well. A lot of time you get home steader information. But actually what you should do for more realivent info is Chinese and Japanese farming practices because they do small scale well. (the drill havest came from the USA though) It's almost the same system you showed in the video. It's even easier if you use more historical grains that are longer. The short grains don't shatter as well in it. Or at least that's what I found. If you make it up to 1/2 acre grain crop it's worth looking into how small holders in other countries do it because they have developement and a lot more small holders. There's just a wealth of knowelege that's mostly been abadon by everyone in the USA except maybe the Amish. And even they have abadon more than people think.
the cultivation of bread grains. You can cut the wheat with a scythe and then tie it into bundles. Then he stops for a bit to mature. You can then thresh it on a flat surface with a flail. Maybe you can also find a wind sweep that can be used to clean all the seeds wonderfully. In Germany you can still find these old devices in many attics or barns ruclips.net/video/zHYBxa6N2Es/видео.html
Yes. Fruit takes years to be established but if you grew up born in the 70’s it was always a grain takes multiple acres and a shoot ton of effort that no one wants to put into it. But health benefits. You have to establish that between your 99% meat and acreage needed with farm implement needed to be self sufficient on a commodity that isn’t easy to obtain. Wheat berries. Whether white or wheat. Something NO ONE is making themselves is the diffidence at this point whether or not containments enter their storage compared to yours and is such a basic staple that could keep you alive come rain or shine, lack there of or to much. Every culture in life began with its basic meat and the ability to make bread.
How is your fruit orchard doing? Is your son still filming for YT?
Baby wants to be on camera too.
How did people use to harvest wheat?
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The bread looks very good. I was wondering if you had that bread recipe you could share.
Yes, I have a recipe here. www.theseasonalhomestead.com/how-to-make-whole-wheat-sourdough-bread/ The recipe has options for more water to make an artisan bread and less water which will make more of a sandwich bread.
I wonder if the bread needs less water because the wheat is so fresh, it hasn’t been sitting on a shelf for months or years . Maybe I am, wrong. Just a thought
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