This is the wheat grinder that we use to grind our flour: YaeTek Electric Grain Grinder 500g Grain Grinder Machine High Speed Grain Grinder Mill 1600W Corn Herb Spice Powder Machine www.amazon.ca/dp/B07K9NXP61/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glc_i_48R2C4Y4V3QZNC3TE8MJ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Just found you guys via Exploring Alternatives. Loved your challenge! I'd imagine your health has never been better. I heard you're on an island. If there's freshwater fish on the island you should totally look into aquaponics! Grow more of your own protein and crops while recycling water. I've been doing it for 6 years and you can start pretty cheap.
I am loving all of your videos but this one really caught my attention as you did a whole lotta work for a tiny amount of payoff. Have you thought about amaranth? Beautiful plant that is easy to grow and you can use the seeds for flour, for edible grain, for chicken feed, etc.
I have done similar with wheat as to what you are doing in this video. One thing that might make sifting the wheat from the chaff is to get a small fan and let it blow over your hands as you hold up the contents of your bowl. The chaff is very light and will blow away, leaving you with just the wheat berries, which is what you grind into flour. This process is called winnowing. It sure makes life a lot easier than separating it all by hand.
Makes you appreciate every bag of flour bought at the store! I am really inspired by your challenge and hope to grow/raise as much of our food as possible this next year!
This is awesome!!! I am definitely inspired to try this as well. If I didn’t have small kids I would love to take this challenge with you but I am starting a garden, getting chicks for eggs plus berry bushes. I’m so glad I found your channel!
Thanks so much. This would definitely be far more challenging with kids. That's great you are doing a garde and getting chickens. Get the kids interested in it early too :)
thank you so much, guys! been looking into gluten alternatives since i want to make pasta for a gluten-free friend. super helpful :) really great, thanks.
Just discovered your channel and love it. But I am a little confused. You took a bag of wheat berries and planted them to produce much less than you started with. Couldn't you have ground the wheat berries you had instead? LOL What did I miss?
On another channel, I watched they used a fan to get rid of the bean debree, the lighter stuff blew away and left the beans to fall into a bowl, im not sure if that would work for your wheat berries, but it's an idea. Might make process a little more efficient for you s time is precious, unless you enjoy to Zen out, which I get.
I planted a 16 x 8ft patch of wheat, last Fall and It grew and survived the Winter, taking off in Spring. It grew well over 2 foot tall and set large heads which I harvested in July. I would say every head had at least 20 berries maybe 40. I imagine you would have gotten a lot more if you hadn't been eating the wheat grass, throughout. I don't really know. I plan to plant all my harvest this Fall, to hopefully, get a large crop for animal feed and flour next year.
Sounds amazing. How much, roughly in kg/pounds do you think you got? I probably use around 50kg of flour in a year for my family, so it'd be interesting to know what sort of area I'd need to plant.
@@ricos1497 I probably only had half of it survive the chicken attack, so 8x8 and I haven't weighed the yield. I haven't threshed it yet. Probably only about a kilo from that plot. I have estimated that I would need to get the same yield per ft of about 1/2 an acre to supply me with sufficient to bake a loaf of bread per week and feed my fowls. I also want to grow milo/sweet sorghum for syrup and grain, to give them variety. I sprout my grains for fowl feed, which doubles both the quantity and the protein content.
The wheat the used as seed was stuff bought to grow wheatgrass with. It is selected to grow more stem and less wheat kernels. They would have done better getting wheat seed from a farmer who grows wheat as a grain. That would have produced a lot more wheat kernels per plant
That's so cool! If I were doing your experiment, I'd probably rely on something less labor-intensive like potatoes for starch, but I'd definitely miss not having flour (and rice). Your flour probably tastes much better than anything store-bought, too.
seems like you used the same amount of packaged seeds to produce the same mount of wheat berries? if not what kind of ratio do you think you produced? How much of the grass blades can you harvest without sacrificing berry production?
Very informative video, I enjoyed it! Although in looking at how many berries she put in at first, it didn't seem to yield 5 times the amount in the end? It looked to be about the same. Maybe a measurement in cups of berries you began with and then a measurement of berries afterwards would have been a bit more conclusive--I'll have to keep this in mind thank you :)
I have a tip for another kind of flour for you, maybe you'll still see it. I remember you said you'd try to grow beans and stuff in one of your videos. Try to grow chickpeas, dry them, then grind them for flour. Heaven knows how many things you could grow and grind to flour. I noticed some kind of similarity between the things you do and things vegans do. It might worth looking up some vegan tricks, just for their out-of-the-box thinking, like the hazelnut milk you've already discovered.
Thanks for sharing, loved it. One question... I watched a documentary on the start of the industrial revolution and the fist thing "industrialized" was flour, which caused the need for "vitamins". Because hand milling kept the outer husk that contains most vitamins, when it was taken out, apparently ppl ended up with scabs on their skin due to the new process... Hens vitamins. I noticed you grinded the huskes then sifted... I'm wondering if that's the bit containing those vitamins??? 🤔
Yes, sometimes we will grind it down further. We also use it to put a crust on things sometimes if we don't need the flour to be quite as fine .(Like chicken strips)
I wonder if there's small scale machines to separate the grains from the wheat. In any case, I'm surprised at the yield, quite good. Though it's not commercially viable to grow indoor, your small scale endeavor could make it worthwile for you. Growing trays, growing lights, solar panels... (in case you don't have the space on the land, or you want to be insulated from a natural event). It can be quite cheap in the long run, but since it would be tedious to get the flour by hand, I hope there's a machine for that.
I would day we got slightly more but pretty close. We also had the bonus of eating all the shoots first that are packed with nutrition. If we didn't harvest the shoots I would imagine we would get more
We figure we got more than we planted but not by a ton. For us we also had the benefit of juicing 3 trays of wheat grass which was the original purpose. So overall we felt the value was worth it :)
Heya, I have just come over to your channel from your video with Exploring Alternatives, and I would love to recommend you check out "Acre Homestead" because on her channel in her gardening videos, she talks about different ways you can use your plant scrapes!! I don't know if you're interested but it may be helpful :)
Doesn’t look like a five-to-one return on what you planted! You should’ve weighed what you see you planted and then weighed the harvest to see if it’s worth it.
We figure it was about the same. We also got to juice 3 trays of wheat grass for nutrition, which was originally the main purpose for planting it. Rather than throwing it out after, we kept it growing for wheat.
@@LovinofftheLand may be u must consider sawing less seeds from the start...wheat production ratio is 1 to 7....u dont have to saw alot....use less seeds...u ll see there ll be more wheat production per space...at the end there ll be more in ur bowl to grind it to flour
This is the wheat grinder that we use to grind our flour:
YaeTek Electric Grain Grinder 500g Grain Grinder Machine High Speed Grain Grinder Mill 1600W Corn Herb Spice Powder Machine www.amazon.ca/dp/B07K9NXP61/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glc_i_48R2C4Y4V3QZNC3TE8MJ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Thanks for sharing Chris
Super cool!
The inside of the stalk of a sunflower can also be turned into flour 😊
9 stalks got me 3 quarts of flour 😊
Just found you guys via Exploring Alternatives. Loved your challenge! I'd imagine your health has never been better. I heard you're on an island. If there's freshwater fish on the island you should totally look into aquaponics! Grow more of your own protein and crops while recycling water. I've been doing it for 6 years and you can start pretty cheap.
Thanks for the tip. That is definitely on our list. So many cool things we've discovered this year that we can't keep up. Lol
I am loving all of your videos but this one really caught my attention as you did a whole lotta work for a tiny amount of payoff. Have you thought about amaranth? Beautiful plant that is easy to grow and you can use the seeds for flour, for edible grain, for chicken feed, etc.
Week 51?? Oh my lord you are almost done!!! Congratulations! What a year!!
I have done similar with wheat as to what you are doing in this video. One thing that might make sifting the wheat from the chaff is to get a small fan and let it blow over your hands as you hold up the contents of your bowl. The chaff is very light and will blow away, leaving you with just the wheat berries, which is what you grind into flour. This process is called winnowing. It sure makes life a lot easier than separating it all by hand.
Makes you appreciate every bag of flour bought at the store! I am really inspired by your challenge and hope to grow/raise as much of our food as possible this next year!
Try growing mammoth sunflowers. The pith can be dehydrated and ground into flour. it won't rise, but you can get creative with it
Which part is the Pith of the sunflower?
I might try my hand at growing Buckwheat next year to make flour with. Great video, thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much. Let us know how it goes
Pretty cool, you guys. And you guys have been really planning ahead - filming multiple segments on wheat grass that you'll publish later. Well done.
I saw the perfect video of both of you from exploring alternative videos
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Thanks so much. They did such a great job on that video. Hope you enjoy following along with our adventures
You seem perfectly installed and already feel the calm and security that comes with the experience! Congratulations on the growth of the channel! 🤠
Wow that's actually awesome
This is awesome!!! I am definitely inspired to try this as well. If I didn’t have small kids I would love to take this challenge with you but I am starting a garden, getting chicks for eggs plus berry bushes. I’m so glad I found your channel!
Thanks so much. This would definitely be far more challenging with kids. That's great you are doing a garde and getting chickens. Get the kids interested in it early too :)
@@LovinofftheLand thank you! I definitely will get the kids involved 😊
thank you so much, guys! been looking into gluten alternatives since i want to make pasta for a gluten-free friend. super helpful :) really great, thanks.
Just discovered your channel and love it. But I am a little confused. You took a bag of wheat berries and planted them to produce much less than you started with. Couldn't you have ground the wheat berries you had instead? LOL What did I miss?
Would there have been enough wheat berries to grow the next crop of wheat grass if you hadn't turned it into flour?
I have heard that of you want each wheat seed to produce as much as it can, you should plant each seed at 1ft spacing.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing
OH love this!!!!!!! 😁
Very cool!
On another channel, I watched they used a fan to get rid of the bean debree, the lighter stuff blew away and left the beans to fall into a bowl, im not sure if that would work for your wheat berries, but it's an idea. Might make process a little more efficient for you s time is precious, unless you enjoy to Zen out, which I get.
I planted a 16 x 8ft patch of wheat, last Fall and It grew and survived the Winter, taking off in Spring. It grew well over 2 foot tall and set large heads which I harvested in July. I would say every head had at least 20 berries maybe 40. I imagine you would have gotten a lot more if you hadn't been eating the wheat grass, throughout. I don't really know.
I plan to plant all my harvest this Fall, to hopefully, get a large crop for animal feed and flour next year.
Sounds amazing. How much, roughly in kg/pounds do you think you got? I probably use around 50kg of flour in a year for my family, so it'd be interesting to know what sort of area I'd need to plant.
@@ricos1497 I probably only had half of it survive the chicken attack, so 8x8 and I haven't weighed the yield. I haven't threshed it yet. Probably only about a kilo from that plot. I have estimated that I would need to get the same yield per ft of about 1/2 an acre to supply me with sufficient to bake a loaf of bread per week and feed my fowls. I also want to grow milo/sweet sorghum for syrup and grain, to give them variety. I sprout my grains for fowl feed, which doubles both the quantity and the protein content.
@@HeatherNaturaly thanks, I'm going to need more land!
@@ricos1497 Yeah. I am thinking 1 acre of grains and 2 of 'deer plot' for my livestock and hay.
The wheat the used as seed was stuff bought to grow wheatgrass with. It is selected to grow more stem and less wheat kernels. They would have done better getting wheat seed from a farmer who grows wheat as a grain. That would have produced a lot more wheat kernels per plant
That's so cool! If I were doing your experiment, I'd probably rely on something less labor-intensive like potatoes for starch, but I'd definitely miss not having flour (and rice). Your flour probably tastes much better than anything store-bought, too.
It was definitely a labour intensive process but was such a treat to be able to batter something every once and a while ❤
Great job sir❤️❤️
Thanks Peter
seems like you used the same amount of packaged seeds to produce the same mount of wheat berries? if not what kind of ratio do you think you produced?
How much of the grass blades can you harvest without sacrificing berry production?
Brilliant! Thanks!
Do you ever save any of the wheat berries you grew and plant them for more wheat?
Very informative video, I enjoyed it! Although in looking at how many berries she put in at first, it didn't seem to yield 5 times the amount in the end? It looked to be about the same. Maybe a measurement in cups of berries you began with and then a measurement of berries afterwards would have been a bit more conclusive--I'll have to keep this in mind thank you :)
wondering if you can just cook the wheat by boiling it? like farro or wheat berries cooked
I have a tip for another kind of flour for you, maybe you'll still see it. I remember you said you'd try to grow beans and stuff in one of your videos. Try to grow chickpeas, dry them, then grind them for flour. Heaven knows how many things you could grow and grind to flour.
I noticed some kind of similarity between the things you do and things vegans do. It might worth looking up some vegan tricks, just for their out-of-the-box thinking, like the hazelnut milk you've already discovered.
they could probably use the leftovers from their hazelnut milk as a sort of flour too.
Thanks for sharing, loved it. One question... I watched a documentary on the start of the industrial revolution and the fist thing "industrialized" was flour, which caused the need for "vitamins". Because hand milling kept the outer husk that contains most vitamins, when it was taken out, apparently ppl ended up with scabs on their skin due to the new process... Hens vitamins. I noticed you grinded the huskes then sifted... I'm wondering if that's the bit containing those vitamins??? 🤔
great job yall ! have you tried regrinding the rougher material you sifted out to get it finer ground ?
Yes, sometimes we will grind it down further.
We also use it to put a crust on things sometimes if we don't need the flour to be quite as fine .(Like chicken strips)
You can use a fan for winnowing next time or out in a strong wind.
Chicken wire rubbing on it works too
Did u use the straw for anything?
I wonder if there's small scale machines to separate the grains from the wheat. In any case, I'm surprised at the yield, quite good. Though it's not commercially viable to grow indoor, your small scale endeavor could make it worthwile for you. Growing trays, growing lights, solar panels... (in case you don't have the space on the land, or you want to be insulated from a natural event). It can be quite cheap in the long run, but since it would be tedious to get the flour by hand, I hope there's a machine for that.
I'm growing wheat from wheat grass it's over a foot tall but no wheat heads. What's happened?
How long has it been growing for? Send us pick on Facebook @lovinofftheland and I will see if I can give you some advice from the photo :)
Can you grow cassava where you live at? You would get more flour per plant.
Where do you buy your seed?:) and how do you feed your chickens?:) thank you so so much for this!!! Love your videos:)
Chickens are excellent at foraging for their own food.
It looks like you got less wheat berries after the harvest than you planted to begin with. Or was that just an optical illusion?
I would day we got slightly more but pretty close. We also had the bonus of eating all the shoots first that are packed with nutrition. If we didn't harvest the shoots I would imagine we would get more
I’m curious if you got more wheat berries than you planted.
We figure we got more than we planted but not by a ton. For us we also had the benefit of juicing 3 trays of wheat grass which was the original purpose. So overall we felt the value was worth it :)
You got more flour from those trays then I thought you would.
Heya, I have just come over to your channel from your video with Exploring Alternatives, and I would love to recommend you check out "Acre Homestead" because on her channel in her gardening videos, she talks about different ways you can use your plant scrapes!! I don't know if you're interested but it may be helpful :)
Doesn’t look like a five-to-one return on what you planted! You should’ve weighed what you see you planted and then weighed the harvest to see if it’s worth it.
wow wheat is a pain in the arse
I don’t take you as a McDonald’s sort of person.
bu you get less than what u put (wheat).....so u are in loss...
We figure it was about the same. We also got to juice 3 trays of wheat grass for nutrition, which was originally the main purpose for planting it. Rather than throwing it out after, we kept it growing for wheat.
@@LovinofftheLand may be u must consider sawing less seeds from the start...wheat production ratio is 1 to 7....u dont have to saw alot....use less seeds...u ll see there ll be more wheat production per space...at the end there ll be more in ur bowl to grind it to flour