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"And who will help me make the bread?" Asked the hen. "Not I," said the cat. "Not I," said the dog. "Not I," said the pig. "Yummy," said the man in the video.
It may be humbling that so much effort went into merely 9 loaves of bread--but it's a real reminder of how lucky we are to be able to buy nearly unlimited quantities of bread for a fraction of an hour's work.
How did early man ever make it eating and planting wheat. You are putting about as much time and energy into producing this stuff as you get from consuming it, and that's not even counting losses from weather and pests.
@@tylerwinkle323 Simple answer is that they didn't. Wheat was often treated in many societies as a luxury product compared to more hearty cereal crops such as rye and barley. Modern technology and farming methods make growing wheat as a staple food much more practical for people with modest means.
@@robynreeeee The romans had a system of separating the grain easily with a horse that went round a big Stone and the grains fell down the shaft. why they became soo powerfull’ they where really advanced, even made sewage systems that still work to this Day..!!
I used to go around sticking baby carrots in the ground thinking that they would grow up Into "adult carrots" not knowing that my parents would just put carrot seeds right next to the baby carrots
Can you imagine doing this... I would have to rethink my whole scenario that keeps me up at night. If the house burns down what do I grab first... My family album or my flour...
I'm sure the grain stores well, as does the flour =P Seems time consuming, but I guess if you keep at it year after year, you always have a supply on hand
The pure fact that this guy was dedicated enough to not only grow and harvest his wheat but document every step of the way over months into one seamless video was just everything. I liked and subscribed so fast. This was the only video I have seen but this level of dedication is was all I could ever hope for and more. Thank you!
This is a man he made his own bread by starting from a seed. It took him about a year to do it, and all he says is yummy. You are a man worthy of all of RU-vids respect. Most people cant even grow an aloe vera plant or even weeds.
It's not hard to grow plants, anyone can do it. Currently I've started radishes, zucchini, beans, butternut, pepper root, yellow onions, red onions, celery, broccoli, two types of lettuce, three different herbs, raspberry plus three other berries I don't know the English name of and rhubarb. It's not hard at all, it's almost like they grow by themselves. Oh right, because they do.
This is exactly what I searched for. I've never been more thankful for the fruits and vegetables growing in my backyard and thought maybe I should learn how to grow wheat 😜 10lbs of wheat will probably last for a couple of months so I'll have to rethink and grow more of everything around the year!
Watching this in April 2020, as so much of the world has changed in such a short time, this is a reminder that life is simple; or at least should be. Thanks @msbrunell, the past was yummy
It took 263 days to harvest it, and it took youtube ~3 years to recomend it. It takes time but it's all worth it. Liked a lot the video, and coincidentally I was going to start growing wheat before watching this. Thanks a lot for your time and information to bring this great video. The yummy was worth everything.
Coincidentally I was going to start growing wheat but after watching this video, I’m not. I have the seed and I’m growing it for novelty but as far as making bread flour, forget it. Thank God for farmers. Great video, saved me a lot of time.
Wow. I didn't see this video until 5 years after it was made. That being said: I can honestly say this was the MOST rewarding video I've ever seen on RU-vid. I felt calmed, I learned, the music was perfect as I was learning exactly how to harvest the grain, and I broke out in laughter when he was eating his bread on camera at the end. The cycle of life and food we take for granted and how rewarding it is to become connected to our food. This was better than even the DoDo videos. Awesome job! I would love to see a grain grinder that was attached to a stationary bicycle, so you could just ride and grind.
Imagine being a simple farmer a thousand years ago, when your life depended on being able to do this efficiently, with home made equipment, on a scale large enough to feed yourselves and also keep some chickens through the winter months. And that is just one small part of a traditional farm's ecosystem, all intricately interwoven -- including many animals. What an achievement !
@@RobertLutece909 Different places required different degrees of self-reliance. Early European settlers in North America were known to make water pipes from hollowed-out logs . . And even when and where grist mills existed, they generally took half of the flour in return for milling the grain -- some people did not have that much surplus to spare.
Heh I kind of thought that too but then for thinking, maybe the smart thing to do is to stop at some point then just plant them next growing season. They don't need to be super clean wheat berries with no extra stuff in it... Right? That's what I would do.
I'm almost 60 yrs. old. I never grew grains before, only bell peppers. I wanted to try other crops and just purchased some wheat grain to plant; but when I heard that it had to be threshed (I only had a little hand cranking mill), I was intimidated and was going to abandon the idea of planting wheat. When I saw this video, my hope was revived and I thanked God for you and this very easy to understand video. Amazon should give you a commission because I just purchased a manual food processor and sieve set.
Honestly...this is one of the most valuable videos I have seen on RU-vid... weirdly mesmerizing, but also a revealing look on what can be achieved with the right know how and innovative use of modern technology...you have given me much to ponder. Thanks
16:00 *internal dialogue* "This tastes terrible..." I only joke, it was a good video. I'm sure it was some of the most memorable bread you ever ate since you had to wait a bit shy of a year to eat it. Thanks for posting!
my first time growing wheat and wasn't sure when to harvest. loved this video because explains everything and didnt have to listen to someone who likes to hear themselves talk....music calming.. words enough explanation...quite good with your hands aka blower in one and winnowing motion in other.
what i learned toady was with maintaining/caring for a crop , a couple of hours of prepping and cooking the product and 263 days later you will get a loaf of bread.
This seems exceptionally long. Possibly because it was grown over winter. From 46 to 52 degrees latitude in North America, the time to maturity is roughly May to September so 130 -160 days depending on conditions and variety of seed.
Maybe with rotation produce can be consistant. But It looks like loads of work just to get some flour which coasts fairly nothing, I wonder what's cheaper, the space used to grow it which could be used for other veggies, the amount of water that went into it and hours of refining/electricity etc
Why do you feel spoiled? The privileged one in the situation would not be you. In order to do something of this scale you need land or a backyard which most people do not have access to. In this day and age being able to grow and harvest your own crops (in the setting of the video) is a privilege that many urban people do not have. It is not a privilege to have to rely on industry for our food, because what happens when the chains of distribution get broken or other things? You have no food. Not only do you need access to space to plant but you need the knowledge that goes along with it. Thankfully thanks to the internet learning how to do this type of thing is easier but there are still many reasons why this would be considered a privilege.
this has to be the most interesting video I have ever seen. I think we all take it for granted that we don’t have to know how flour comes from a wheat plant. crazy how dissociated we are from the sources and production of our food
The way you made and edited this video for us, you did it perfect, thought of everything, even the mess on the floor from winnowing was shown and you’re damn right I enjoyed seeing that mess for some reason. Thanks man it was great
Every few months I rewatch this just because it is so satisfying. Not a lot of people show the entire process including used stuff they grow. Very neat and the bread looks good!
Granted, it's unlikely your big-name providers of wheat and wheat products goes through this whole process by hand (they automate with massive machines), the process is pretty cool. I'd like to try it, too.
To improve your wheat (or other cereal) fruit collection rates, speed, and general cleanliness of process it maybe worth looking at different options. Bucket threshers, that use a chain and a drill to thresh larger amounts at one time, maybe adding a mesh and an air blower in the bottom, for seed to drop down through, and for chaff to raise up initially in a grass collector style mesh, like a pre-winnow. Winnowing with something like reel seeds open source seed sorter, allows adjustment for different seed types and weights, with quick reprocessing, and no loss of seed by it ‘sliding’ off the side of your winnow basket. Should be able to increase your volume per hour, your capture percentage and reduce mess generation, for only a little cost, and some fore-thought in planning.
Doing it yourself at home takes a LOT of work. The only reason wheat/wheat bread/wheat products are so cheap today is this whole process is mechanized and automated to do all the labor for them. But you would be a fool to NOT learn how to do this at home. One day life as we know it will come to an end and if no one knows how to do this stuff anymore, well, we're all dead....
Exactly!! How did they know that the wheat berries could produce flour ....and then bread. Lots of trial and error from other plants and berries i guess...smh
But also how did people think of drinking milk out of a cows teets... And then to take that milk, let it get MOLDY, then have cheese! And then combine the cheese with the bread dough, add some tomato sauce and make pizza!? And then take that wheat let it rot in water for months, then have beer with your pizza... them some smart ancestors..
The young generations need to watch videos like these so they can appreciate how much work goes into the foods we eat and take for granted. Great video
Stop acting like you worked in a factory in the 1800s. Now for some reason we've gotta just go and mill our own fucking wheat because we're apparently not being grateful that no one is tending to wheat farms by hand anymore bitch go back to when 40 was considered old age
Younger generations? Most 80 year olds these days never grew anything, they just buy their bread at the supermarket. I'd say WE all need to watch these videos to appreciate more the food we eat.
Incredible video. Makes me think about the times of my ancestors 2000 years ago, the Spanish Visigoths. I've made my decision and when I move out I'll plant my wheat. Thank you so much for making this video.
This is so intuitive. Not just the visuals, but the quantification helps me to understand what it takes to live self sufficiently. The bread I’m going to bake will taste so much better today with the exact same recipe I used yesterday.
Very nice presentation. I grew wheat (hard red winter wheat) for the first time this year. Somewhat better results overall, but I'm sure there's lots of variation. I planted about two pounds of seed on 577 square feet (my wheat plot is a trapezoid, not a rectangle, hence the unusual square footage) and harvested 54 pounds of wheat after threshing and winnowing. Most of the hard work is in that part! I still have buckwheat, field corn, and grain sorghum to go this year! I learned a lot from the wheat experience, and I suspect that it would be at least possible for a gardener armed with a good knowledge of the crop (and chemical fertilizers and fungicides!) to get the equivalent of 100bu/ac in yield.
How many loaves of bread can you make with 54 lbs of seed? Also this question may be obvious but, is wheat "seed" the same as wheat berrys such that you hold out 10% of the berry harvest for the next year's crop?
My grandparents worked as farm hands for many years before they got land of their own. My grandmother told me the old way of separating grain from chaff was to either use a blanket or a very large bowl and toss it lightly. Do it with a bit of wind, and the chaff blows off.
By far, the most informative video I've found about growing and harvesting wheat. Many videos just show a machine doing I don't know what. But I definitely learned from this one. Thank you for making it. Thank you for teaching me.
Excellent video,wonderful explanation, and such a wonderful table you made showing your study results. This is exactly what I was looking for. I just bought and reclaimed an abandoned plot of land just up from my house which I may garden in this next year. In these troubled times I can hunt and fish in my area and we always kept a garden as a child. I'm looking to relive my youth here in Appalachia and get back closer to the land. We never grew wheat as a child,but bread being a staple of our diet,I think it's on my to do list. Thank you so much for all this.
A great effort documenting the process, loved the stats at the end, I have to now work out how much land I need to grow an adequate quantity for the family. Very well done , thank you.
This is wonderful. Thank you for your lesson. If I will be lucky enough to live on a large plot of land one day I’ll definitely grow my own food, and wheat.
Perfect. I planted some white Sonoran with my 6th grade gardening class, but since I’d never done it myself was pretty vague on the actual process. This answered all my questions! I’ll show them this video since they won’t be able to do the whole process in a single semester. Thanks!
Yessir, chaff is the leftovers once you take your berry out. The berry is used, the rest is food for ruminants or bedding for the animals that cant eat it.
This video made my day! I've often wondered if I could plant a small patch of wheat and it looks like I can. Thanks for showing us the entire process from start to finish...especially that beautiful bread! Great job!
msbrunell I loved it. I realize your not a baker, but if you had kneaded the bread dough and let it rise 3-4 times it would have given the bread a finer texture. I used to read the children's book The Little Red Hen. I wanted to bake bread when I was younger. I finally made it in my 20s. I loved baking bread. It tasted so much better than the store bought junk. Especially right out of the oven still warm! Thank you for your video.
Thanks for this! We have grown a small plot of wheat the last couple of years but have not threshed much of it yet. I like the idea of just pulling off the heads instead of trying to beat the whole stalk. I would have figured the food processor would damage the berries but obviously it didn't. Definitely going to try this!
Thanks for sharing!! I dream of one day having a massive home garden, and being self sustainable. I haven't the first clue about gardening, so this helps immensely
Thank you! It seems so basic, but for a suburban/city gal like me, I needed exactly this video to answer some questions I've had for a long time. Thank you for sharing the process. Excellent finish. :)
You might check out Sara Pitzer's Homegrown Whole Grains book for more info. We would benefit from a small scale, affordable, commercially produced threshing/winnowing machine, but to my knowledge such a machine does not exist. A good project for all of those engineering students out there.
Thank you for showing me how you did this. I got to plant einkorn (wheat) yesterday in the garden. I looked at your video to see your technique to help me sow.
