Growing Heritage Wheat at home. Part 2

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A brief follow-up to my previous video, but this time updating my practices in growing wheat and selection of historic varieties once grown in the Southeastern United States. This video shows historic practices for growing, harvesting, threshing and milling all natural wheat.
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I've gone from 2,500 sq ft to a quarter acre. Is it all roses and champagne? Not quite, just after this video was made I had some pretty ruinous events that happened that almost ended my wheat growing days. Find out what happened next video.

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3 июл 2021

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@morenorasiadani4640 2 года назад

Good family!

@jassiuswise 2 года назад

Thank you Moreno. My sons are dear to me and they seem to love helping out. Thank you for watching.

@leonardorser3455 5 месяцев назад

This is awesome . You’ve got some good kids there.

@fredflintystoneea 11 месяцев назад

Hey, Really appreciate your project. I think it's a very necessary undergoing, and I'm glad that you've taken it upon yourself to restore these heritage wheat grains. When you're finally ready to distribute it, it will be a blessing to us all. It's a shame we so much content on organically grown vegetables on RU-vid, but see so very few on wheat. Many people I've seen have struggled with grain harvest and losing their yield. It seems you've developed a solution with the wide grate on your scythe; does this stop the grain heads breaking up when harvested? Thank you. The wife watched this with me and loved it. God bless.

@HoboWhisperer 2 года назад

Great video - I love seeing this kind of stuff!

@supramby 3 года назад

Seems you’ve ramped things up from sustaining a family to sustaining a town. I like the idea of preserving the wheat berries up until use rather than milling a bunch of flour. Both videos I’ve watched were enjoyed. Now I’ll watch the others

@jassiuswise 2 года назад

Thank you Supramby! I am working on other videos explaining the journey from 2017 to 2021. There has been as much victory as defeat - as much loss as gain. I have learned much. Your comments are endearing to me.

@baneverything5580 2 года назад

@@jassiuswise Have you tried cooking the wheat in other ways besides flour?

@baneverything5580 2 года назад

@@jassiuswise That`s what my hands looked like after a four hour show on drums.

@jassiuswise 2 года назад

@@baneverything5580 Only once I put whole wheat berries in a soup. I boiled them until they became soft and added them to the soup for content. Other than that no. I have wanted to see if someone with home brew equipment might try to make a wheat beer out of it, but I have not pursued it much. Thank you for your comments and the other comments about callouses on hands. I love playing drums also.

@creeperking0017 4 месяца назад

uv done much better this year i must say

@narnia1233 2 года назад

This makes me think it might be cool if there was a mill at the local store or something. If people were to grow their food on a small scale themselves and then take it in to the local store for processing. But, that’s awesome you have the equipment now to do it yourself more efficiently. I really hope you no longer get black lung, that was horrible sounding. Hope you all stay healthy, and I think it’s great to learn this. I’d like to learn too, starting out with a small garden. My family is kinda split between city and country. My dad grew up in the city whereas my mom grew up in the country on a farm. I always like the country a bit more. I like making something with your own hands and the peacefulness. It just feels more like home.

@jassiuswise 2 года назад

Thanks Narnia. As to your first paragraph, that is exactly how life was prior to about the 1960's. Most communities in the American South, had a water-powered mill nearby, where farmers brought the wheat and corn they grew to be ground into flour and corn meal. The truth is I only have minimal equipment to do all the tasks that growing wheat requires, but I do have access to an 1800's water-powered mill that has been restored and is in operation, that can grind the wheat into flour. For that I am blessed by God. One more thing - as to the "black lung" comment: that was sarcasm and a play-on-words. There is a real disease called black lung, which is generally associated with coal miners. I used that term in jest - only trying to express that after working the dusty operation of wheat threshing, sometime coughing produced dark phlegm. It is not uncommon. Country living is more suited to humans as created by God. Humans can adapt to city life for sure, but will find the most peace in rural environs. Thanks for watching!

@Yotaciv 28 дней назад

Looks like your wheat was low in protein maybe in last video, dense bread. Maybe a bit more N? As far as mechanization I use a #4 copper ground wire as a flail in a drill press to thresh. I use a 4” exhaust fan to blow chaff out. Your set up looks neat too. My Mockmill kitchenaid attachment will grind about 3 cups of flour in 6 minutes, a guy should of gotten a bigger mill like the Mockmill 100 maybe.

@user-gb9vt5pz5u 4 месяца назад

Like to know this crop went. I'm growing wheat again her in S.W. Michigan. Did it before about three years ago. This time I got late. So It is my time to try planting spring wheat. The plot has a been fallow from weeds. Really looking forward to get it in the ground this spring. I have a scythe I need to set up with a cradle to help harvest the grains. I've got my threshing figured out but I would like to find a thresher like the one you showed here which I could barrow the time comes.

@vvdv3444 Год назад

Thanks in this day and age where mobile phone contains 5 billion transisters we must have an efficient way for people to grow their own wheat at home?

@David-kd5mf 2 года назад

I grew some wheat this year. Threshing and winnowing is a bear. Do you know if they make machines like that hand crank thresh and winnower?

@jassiuswise 2 года назад

Not many places still make them, and those that do in the USA are very expensive. It is better in my opinion to find an antique one, like in this video, and rehab it. Another option would be to buy one from overseas - through alibaba, but then you have to pay freight, customs, and hope that what you ordered from China is what is actually delivered. Because sometimes it's not. The hand-crank machine in this video is actually called a "Fanning Mill", so if you look up that term you will see more responses than googling "thresher & winnower". What this video does not show is that it didn't really work for us. You can kind of tell this because in the time-lapse video me and my son alternate turning the hand crank and feeding the wheat. This was because it wasn't doing the job and I was trying to figure out what to adjust. It was missing a belt that would have turned the drum screen. Thank you for watching and good luck on the wheat project.

@David-kd5mf 2 года назад

@@jassiuswise thank you for the response. Helpful info !