Showing posts with label wheat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wheat. Show all posts

Monday, February 12, 2018

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.

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Cover oats sprouting!

We're preparing a 25ft x 15ft field for wheat later this year, with sheet mulching and animal feed oats as a cover crop.  We vastly overseeded it, but it looks like one patch is beginning to grow! (The patch on the right)