From seed to loaf (part 2 of 2) allotment scale production of bread making wheat

Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ3aVJKvhX8v for more information about the threshing machine This video is about small-scale wheat production using modified garden machinery and a home-built threshing machine.I grow my own wheat and make bread not because its 10% cheaper but because I think its 100% better - and it gives me great satisfaction. Growing wheat this way is an indulgence as it requires a certain amount of land, if space is tight growing vegetables and salad crops makes more sense. If you want to try yourself, please check first to see if wheat will grow in your area. Enjoy whatever you grow and remember -look after the land and the land will look after you.

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• Threshing machine
• wheat growing
• bread making
• allotments
• organic
• gardening
• farming

[Aberamentho2010]

What type of wheat do you recommend growing for making bread?

Wonderful vid by the way!

[seedtray1]

@Aberamentho2010 I do not know which part of the USA you are from but I think it best to contact local farmers or your extension service. Here are two sources that may help you. extensionDOToregonstateDOTedu/­sorec/growing-grains-small-far­m & northerngraingrowersDOTorg

[1820ecape]

Really enjoyed your clips, what I really liked is your machines, in particular the2 wheel tractor but really that thrasher! But all ur gear right down to the wheat dryer. Reading some of the comments it was really interest to see your cost break , again well done. Just as a matter of interest I was wondering if one had to convert some of the wheat in to 200 proof alcohol to run the machines how many loaves would be lost? Looking forward to see result and comment

[seedtray1]

@1820ecape Thank you for your comment, I am looking at human powered machines as I don’t think it right to convert annual grain crops into fuel. Growing oilseed crops (sunflowers & oil seed rape) produces around 80 gallons per acre and 20% of the farmland is required to produce bio diesel for agricultural operations. This is about the same area that was required to keep horses when farming was horse powered.

[seedtray1]

@1820ecape continued . The major differences being tractors don’t give birth to baby tractors and horse powered farming requires more labour (a useful job creation scheme?). It all gets complicated but there are many issues around the destructive effects of growing large areas of monoculture annual crops leading to deserts of biodiversity and eventually true deserts. If (in the future) 60% of farmland were in mixed perennial crops and trees, I wonder if wood gas would be a better bio fuel? .

[seedtray1]

@1820ecape continued. Again, it all comes back to the management, harvesting wood has to be on a sustainable basis and even then, some of the cut wood has to be left for the fungi and insects.

[fannybaba]

Does anyone know of any importers of small threshing machines? lots on alibaba.com.

all chinese and Indian, some foot operated also, It might be worthwhile for someone to import a few if enough people were interested, I wouldnt know how to go about this.

[txroye]

How long does your crop last you? Do you bake often?

[TheRealTrojanGoat]

Informative video, thankyou. I just wonder, how much flour you can actually produce from such a small area? Would you say this is a worthwhile crop in itself or is it just a more productive use of space rather than leaving the land fallow?

[TheHappyRagequitter]

Awsome video! Im planning to plant some wheat, potatoes and lettuce as I get my own house :)

[BringBack500s]

Excellent 2 part 'how to' there, well done.

And I'd guess that bread tastes so damn good!

[GreeneyesInCali]

Delightful, informative and encouraging. I can't help but think this video covers so many questions with such concise explaination. Thank you. I will be growing wheat this season.... the question now is what type of seed to get?

[Talentedtongueoo7]

interesting

[robertsmi9]

I love your video, you sir are living the life that I am wanting. I would love to leave the fast pace of living in town and being dependent of the stores to supply me with chemicaly induced foods. "What I call legal poison." Please keep doing what you do and god bless you.