Flour milling

We milled some flour today!  This time, we used our fairly cheap hand grinder, so it took a while. The kids helped a little, but turning the crank was pretty tough for them.

Starting with about 4 cups(?) of hard red wheat berries (the seeds), we milled and sifted down to about 1.2 cups of fine flour, several cups of coarse flour, and maybe a half cup of coarse bran.  We've been making 100% whole wheat bread (with gluten flour) in our bread machine lately, so we'll try for a loaf from a mix of coarse and fine flour.

Tomatoes sprouting!

Our Roma tomato seeds are sprouting!  They're leaning a lot because we put them too high at the window(?)  They're now down a shelf.  Hopefully they'll be ready for potting soon.

Starting tomatoes

(2/6/2018, edited 2/12/2018)
Today we planted some Roma tomato seeds.  Our kids helped, so each pot has between 0 and 3 seeds. :p

The seeds are Roma tomato seeds from Cornucopia (picked up at Bloomers).

We're putting them on a shelf near a south facing window, in a jiffy seed starter thing.