Growing wheat for a sustainable retreat

We believe in trying to build in as much sustainability to our retreat as possible! We now now we can at least have bread and water without relying on outside sources!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Homesteading
• wheat
• gardening
• WROL
• Prepping
• Christianity
• Farming
• sustainability

[imstillworkin]

Thanks for the video. I planted a small patch of wheat in the fall. So far it is doing very well. Not looking forward to the threshing part, lol.

[engineer775]

@imstillworkin It is nice to know I am not the only crazy guy doing this at home! I hope the video gave you some ideas. Thanks for watching.

[GoatHollow]

Great job! Am planting a little patch myself this year. Thanks for the warning;) . How many in your family, and how long did 100lbs last you. how much did you reserve for re-planting.

[engineer775]

@GoatHollow Thank you and you are welcome on the warning! It was 100 gallons . so about 800 pounds. I could have easily have had a ton but I wasted so much trying to figure out how to do it. There are 6 in my family and 1200 lbs wold be sufficient for us for wheat for a year. I bought wheat as well to make sure I had enough with always having 120 lbs set back to be able to plant an acre of wheat. 1 acre here produces about 40 bushels, 2 set back giving us 38*60 = 2280 lbs. Take Care!

[pr4runner]

A lot of work and a lot of reward

[engineer775]

@pr4runner true on both account! Thanks for watching!

[supernature333]

Did you just spread the wheat seed out on top of the grass? Or did you clear the land first? Thanks.

[MrWeparo]

@supernature333

I think you have to clear the land first, meaning turning everything upside down and then planting the seeds 1-2 inches deep into the earth

[MrWeparo]

Wow! This is amazing. Im planning on growing a little bit of wheat myself, and so I searched youtube for similar projects. Of course my plan is a couple sizes smaller than your project, but what you did is crazily impressive. If I had that kind of ressources for prepping, though, I'd buy some gear for it. (Threshing maschine)

Good Luck!

[jamisonbrooks]

What would you furtilize weet with any way

[TacticalEagle43]

question in making bread, how do you produce the yeast natural in a self-relience (wrol) situation?

[Mcclain718]

Wow, I don't know y'all but I have to say in watching your videos, how proud I am of you and your family! I have so desperately wanted to live this self sustainable for so long I can't tell you! I even wanted to become Amish if you can believe it but I guess they don't let outsiders in...go figure. So we have done the best we can on our limited budget and have got our years worth of food, water ammo and guns just still living in Fort Worth city limits and we want out of the city so badly...y

[MsJackle99]

Great job for your first wheat crop! However, if you are going to continue growing wheat yearly and harvesting by hand, I would recommend using a scythe with a cradle attachment. With practice you can cut the stalks and lay them in sheaves with a sinlge sweep of the scythe. This accomplished two things. First, the wheat will be much easier to stack and move around once the sheaves are tied off. Second, it will make threashing easier because all the heads are in one general area.

[WALLEYEHAMMER1911]

Very cool.

[makun16]

Do you know where I can find a grain mill for wheat berries that I can grind into flour to make bread? The ones I have found are really expensive!! I don't mind used goods as long as they are clean and usable. Thanks!!

[charkee1]

The dryer the straw the easier it is to thresh.

[buckstarchaser]

If you keep growing wheat you can probably do this with a 2 stage device containing some sort of spinning beater bar and a vortex separator. After the first round of separating the wheat from the shafts you can probably run it through again with the beater spinning faster to take the outer coverings from the wheat. This is just a guess though from my limited knowledge of a combine harvester.