Hulless Oats Small Scale Processing 

Hi Leroy, thanks for following along. Producing grain by hand puts a whole new perspective on how intensive it is without machinery. That being said, the planting and waiting parts are pretty easy! Sounds like you’re planning an awesome property. I do wish I had built my greenhouse at least 40’. I would have overwintered citrus, and bananas. Thanks for your support and good luck with the homestead!

They’re a good crop to grow. Especially if you want to get an appreciation for harvest and processing. It gives you a real appreciation for grain production. It’s quite time laborious.

Theoretically one could grow about 32 lbs on 1000 sq ft under the right conditions. My yield is about half of that but I don’t do any type of management. No watering or weeding.

that one is a wondermill jr. deluxe. decent grinder, one day ill electrify it.

I don't actually. I plan on building a seed separator next year. like this one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dJdXowuYLpk.html

I agree. Oats work well here, no problem fitting them into our growing season.

I strongly believe that the way of the future is in having a large number of small diversified farms that can each be worked by hand by just a few people. Large-scale agriculture involves much more expense due to the need for mechanization and inevitably involves degradation of the soil. Due to the lack of overhead, small farms that use only human power are actually more efficient and more profitable than large farms, and if more people could get back into food production, there would be more employment in rural areas and fewer people having to migrate to urban areas to look for work--plus we would take better care of our land if we focused more on producing food than on producing money. Another benefit of small farms is that they can exist in places like Newfoundland, where there aren't many large expanses of non-rocky, "arable" soil. A small farm using natural agriculture techniques (no plowing) can exist almost anywhere, even on a steep hillside. These small farms wouldn't be making anyone rich, but they would protect families and communities from falling into real poverty by creating local self-sufficiency.

Hi William, I used a drop spreader for seeding. Much cleaner and was ably to distribute only in the area I wanted seeded. I got the seed from a Facebook follower. It’s not easy to find this variety.

You only need to thresh and winnow for these oats. The grinder I use is a wondermill junior deluxe. Works perfect and I set it on a coarse grind for cereal. I typically use 1/3 of a cup f coarse ground oats to 1 Cup of water soaked overnight. Cook for 15 mins in the morning!

Hi Vicky, we use the wondermill jr. we ordered ours from briden solutions online. Thanks for following along. More videos to come. I’ve been a slacker lately. Needed some rest after a long growing/harvest season!

@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock I can certainly understand what you mean by rest. I planted 760 potatoes last year by hand. Also grew cabbages, parsnip , fencing,etc. After the growing comes the preserving. ( more work ) So far this past fall /winter I have hauled 11 dump trailer loads of kelp and 17 loads towed behind a Quad. So I understand the rest part.

Did you make the winnowing machine? If so how did you make it, or where did you purchase? Thanks

yes there are several types. Hulless and hulled. Hulless oats have not hulls once threshed. Hulled oats do. You need a dehuller to remove the hulls before grinding hulled oats.

Thresh, winnow and then ready for grinding. No dehulling as they are hulless.

the hulls don't easily grind. they leave little hard fibers. you want to get it mostly hull free before you grind

@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Thanks for the reply. I'm lucky enough to have one of those high speed flour grinders that sounds like a jet taking off. Do you think this type of grinder would give the same result? It does well with rice and sorghum. Would these little hard fibers be noticeable in say bread or cake? TIA

@@888zz999 I have a hand type grinder with stones, hard to say, if it used blades instead of grinding, it may work. You could try using a small amount to see What happens

@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Yes, if I had a small amount I would ;-). I think I'll go ahead and buy some raw 'nuda to grow anyway. Looks like it might be more doable for home processing (great video). And try the 'sativa if I come across some. There's some info out there that suggests including powdered hulls for other nutritional needs. Thanks!

This is. A wondermill jr. I bought it through briden solutions.

​@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Hi, does the mill use stone plates? Or is this stainless steel? Thanks!

@@SweetCakeLover it comes with both! Stone planted for grinding flour, steel plates for nut butters and things like masa.

I thought similar, a heavily toothed dog grooming tool might do it. thx for the plastic blade idea, I bet it would make quick work of getting the chaff free and then normal winnowing.

In theory, about 53 lbs per 1000 sq ft. I got about half of that but it was a dry summer, I didn’t water it. I just let it do it’s thing.

@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Thank you!

I remember that move from some years ago, I can kind of see the resemblence! These seed came from a grower that has been growing it for a long time, without herbicides or pesticides. He offered to send me some and I accepted his offer!

@@TheHomesteadatFlatrock Best keep him a friend for life. In the USA it's so messed up if another person doesn't even sell but gives you seed from nog agriculture there are restrictions against doing so. Hell, in the Obama healthcare bill made law there's all kinds of garbage snuck in including all home gardening to be GMO and inspected by a new bunch of inspectors who can issue fines if you sell the produce or grains with anyone including relatives and neighbors. Violations go to extremes of property seizure. Seriously, imagine a neighbor down in hard times and your not allowed to help a person out, pathetic. Now with his vice president as president there's a scam for home and community garden registry. This is actually like a gun registry. The part people don't realize is f martial law is declared food storage is one of the things to be confiscated so they can shove Thier garden registry where the sun doesn't shine.

@@mikefinley4367 That is not quite correct. The "People's Garden" registry is completely voluntary and aims only to connect people with others in their communities and with resources for sustainable garden practices. No one is required to register, crops are certainly not expected to be GMO, the focus is on community education, and sharing is encouraged! In fact, it's the whole point. I am in the U.S. and don't plan to register my garden, because I don't need to do so in order to share with my community and I prefer privacy and like to stay out of politics completely (I do agree that politicians always have ulterior motives, and I think that those on all ends of the spectrum are right about some things and wrong about others and that we all need to start listening to each other instead of demonizing each other), but it actually sounds like a good effort to help make communities less reliant on large-scale industrial agriculture. Whether you can sell your garden produce locally would depend on your local zoning requirements. In my town, during and right after the pandemic, they actually made it legal for anyone to sell produce and even value-added food products to other locals without needing agricultural zoning, an inspected commercial kitchen, etc., and we voted, on a referendum, to guarantee the right to local food, including keeping animals in city backyards.

@@JellybeanHouseNewfoundland It's voluntary now, scream later.

@@mikefinley4367 You are probably right. I am wary of any initiative that comes from the top down. We need to build our lives and our community resilience from the bottom up and get away, as much as possible, from the worship of money and power as the highest goods. Of course those who have the money and power want us to be easy to control so that they can have more money and power. That is true of every government just about everywhere in the world (with the possible exception of a few tiny ones in small countries).The culture of fear and the attitude of scarcity and competition are some the ways they manipulate us and prevent us from building true communities, so let's be fearless--even when the odds don't seem to be in our favor--in building trust in the power of ordinary people to build a different world. Ironically, when our current top-heavy structures eventually collapse under their own weight, it will be the little people (and I hope I will be one of them!) who are more self-sufficient and have close relationships with others in their communities who survive better than the people who have heaps of dollars in the bank and fancy titles but no life skills and no relationships that are not based on profit and exploitation.

Rice of the prairies...Oats!