Growing Wheat For The First Time
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2018
- It has been really interesting to growing wheat for the first time, with quite different needs while growing and quite labour intensive to harvest, thresh and clean. But is it worth it?
I used to assume that it would not be worth the effort to grow wheat at a small scale, but then I was given a batch of mixed seed as part of a really interesting seed saving project.
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I'm finding it hard to work out what you expect to grain from this.
We have a field behind our house where they plant wheat sometimes. I love sitting near it and listening to the wind. It sounds like the ocean.
ah so this is how they do it in minecraft
Spaniards use an open space free of grass and hens and beat the crap out of the straw to detach the seed pods out of the shaft. Then proceed to sieve the husk as you did but on a sheet that would allow them to repeat the process without loss.
Today's modern wheat and grains grown commercially generically closer to a rhubarb and contaminated with herbicides and pesticides, so what are we to do ? We cannot continue to feed our families with contaminated GMO foods , I definitely appreciate your information and your math, that's a huge help, but now how do we move forward on what seems such a monumental task.
This is why "America The Beautiful" talks about amber waves of grain. I'd rate a rolling field of wheat up as being just as pretty as a seascape or mountain vista.
This is EXACTLY what I've been thinking of doing! I make my own sourdough and have a little mill and grind wheat. Australia is a great wheat growing country too, so following your experience, I will definitely try it. There are some vids on UA-cam where people use old food processors for threshing and all kinds of other equipment to process the grain, which could make it less labour intensive. I loved your hen cleaner-uppers too!! GREAT video!!
Your seed wheat for next year is likely to be eaten by weevils.
Composting wheat with bread. How cannibalistic! :D
So amazing to see. This is the grain of my region, Swartland here in South Africa. Your methods were pretty creative and effective imo.
You could look at this as energy per square meter, 1 pound of wheat = 1500 calories.
Just let the chickens harvest and thresh it for you. They seem trustworthy.
Very interesting and informative, as a person who was looking to understand more about how wheat is grown. Maybe it's something I could try to grow someday.
This video answered all my questions I had about growing wheat. Thank you. Its channels like this that we need more of
I appreciate you man!!!
I need so many more videos like this. I very much enjoy the intellectual dialogue in your videos. As an avid gardener it's very refreshing to stumble upon a channel like yours.
Thanks for the video. When I did the search for growing wheat all the videos showed the "big scale" process. Your video it was just what I was looking for.
I love baking bread, and the idea of planting an intermixed variety and letting the local climate select for the most suitable is very appealing. I've got more land than I can use for my vegetable garden, and I have let large portions of it turn to meadow. I think you may have inspired me to try wheat for next season. Plus, I don't feel compelled to build raised beds for grains!
I love your commentary you are awesome thanks bro.
Im really glad you decided to experiment and more importantly you shared your finds and the figures you came up with give a great framework to start with . being the first video ive seen i appreciate the way you included your sq ft and figures , great overall video i picked up a lot . thank you