Small-Scale Grain Production | Homestead Wheat Barley and Oats | Growing Grain At Home

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Discover the secrets of small-scale grain production! Join us as we share our fascinating story of growing red fife wheat, Faust barley, white Sonoran wheat, and terra hull-less oats during the 2022 growing season. Many homesteaders overlook the possibility of growing their own grains, but with a change in eating habits, it's entirely possible to fulfill your family's needs on a small scale. However, growing grain requires a different set of skills than many other garden vegetables. Watch our experiments and learn more about the challenges and rewards of small-scale grain production.
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@AlsanPine Месяц назад

i have been growing barley, oats, sorghum, khorasan wheat, and amaranth for a couple of decades at my food forest in n. idaho. before i put in the food forest, i covered the coarse sand soil with 6' of fresh arborist chips which killed all vegetation. as the chips compost, they lose 1/2 their volume the first year and about 1/2 on second year bringing their total height to just under 2'. this became my foundation. i planted cover crops loved by wildlife on 3rd year and the deer and turkeys did their thing adding considerable fertility. in the mean time, i had huge mountains of additional arborist chips decomposing on the side which on the 4ht year became my raised beds (berms). these beds are what i grow everything in. i spend about 10-15min a day weeding in my just under 1 acre food forest as i work from dawn to when it gets too hot. the weed pressure is not there because i started with a clean slate. i did this with an acre but it can be done in a smaller scale. weeds are easy to deal with when there are usually none there 🙂 i also rarely have to water things because i grow in humus and it holds moisture and nutrients. it is the lazy man's way 🙂

@apysti Год назад

there s never much talk about grains, this video was great!

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

I don't think many people do experiment much with it on a small scale. Its one of those funny things you get a huge return on what you plant but the berries are so small that in the end after the time and effort it doesn't seem like much, but whole grains are a valuable food item just very hard to scale it up to make a lot of bred and flour on a small scale..... Very glad you enjoyed it! We have plans again for 2023 so stay tuned!

@TheCowEmporium Год назад

Oh, that’s a beautiful grain stook! With your oats… if the weather turned really hot when it was in the blooming stage it maybe got what we called blast where the blooms get too hot and fall off before getting pollinated. I know the missed oat seed that was in the feed grew but that’s nature for ya, always trying to find a way. Awesome video guys, we know growing grains on a small scale is hard, heck, growing on a large scale is hard! Lol. Take care, Annette 🌺

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

That is good to know about the oats and honestly may have been what happened as we had a good growing season early on last year then the temperatures did spike quite a bit. The grain's are interesting to grow on a small scale its just not as easy as so many other vegetables. And honestly though we have never done it we can appreciate the difficulty on a big scale as well! all the same problems but magnified!

@pseudopetrus Год назад

Red Fife wheat was developed on a farm near Peterborough Ontario by a guy named... Mr. Fife! I knew one of his relatives.

@northerngirlhobbies Год назад

That's a cool piece of info!

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

its the predecessor to most of the modern hard red wheats from what I understand. I think Red Fife has its roots in either the Ukraine or that general vicinity before its ancestors came to Canada and Mr. Fife made it famous! That is cool that you knew one of his relatives! I've been to the historic plaque just east of Peterborough (couldn't resist the detour to see it!)

@kyerstenkerr5074 Год назад

Perfect timing, and thanks for your thoughts; we're hoping to play with grains on our homestead as well so this is neat info. I have Khorseran (sp) and spelt to play with this year. Will play with oats and barley the next.

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

That is awesome that your going to give growing grains a try! But also a good idea to focus. The first year grew some (which was about 10 or so years ago) I bought a few kinds and really did not end up with much to show for it. I've learned that the best thing you can do is to try to get the largest amount of seed you can (for the older heritage types anyways) to start and see where you can go from there. Good luck for the coming growing season!

@kristinataylor154 Год назад

Thank you! I’m excited to try growing grains this year. I will test out starting them indoors.

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

if you only have a little it seems to work pretty well. The big thing is not to start them to early because once they get going they do seem to grow pretty fast. I can't remember when we started them exactly but I know it was sometime in April and it worked pretty well.

@northerngirlhobbies Год назад

Let the new monster know I watched this whole thing! Looking forward to watching this year's harvest.

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

lol we will let Chuck know! We are looking forward to another year of growing some grains to. We have some plans so stay tuned!

@urbancraft2372 7 месяцев назад

We've always called them grain sheaves

@GardeningintheNorth Год назад

Great video. I bought grain seeds last year, but never did plant them, so it was great seeing how you guys did. Happy planting 😊

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

Its an interesting thing to try growing. Probably the thing that's nicest about them on a small scale is if you dabble in them and do any sort of garden rotation they can be good for filling in some gaps here and there even if you can't produce a large volume on a small scale (its a big return but still seems small return compared to other vegetables)

@danielturner9832 10 месяцев назад

@@HickorycroftFarm I started with a tiny amount of seed as you did and got quite a lot to plant the next year. I had a few heritage types of wheat and because I had some extra ground to fill in used a commercial brand from Montana they sell to people that mill their own flour, I live in a state that only grows soft winter wheat yet that hard spring wheat was fantastic, The heritage wheat did well but the yield was nothing like the modern wheat. In a small plot I got almost 40 pounds to grind and a few pounds for seed. Now that Montana wheat knows how to grow in Indiana

@David-kd5mf Год назад

Stooking shocks of wheat was I think the terminology you were looking for. Great video. Everybody should grow grains in backyard in my opinion. I did spelt, kamut khorason, and rye. Just sowed 7 or 8 varieties of grain corn in one section so they can all cross hopefully. Oversowed corn with clover to help suppress weeds and feed corn. Will be sowing a few sorghum varieties and a few dryland rice varieties once things warm up sufficiently in NC.

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

Thank you.... for the life of me I couldn't think what it was called. We are excited to dive bit deeper into the grains here on the farm. It will be interesting and challenging for sure. At this point we are mostly growing to propagate, but I am really hoping to be able to test out using some this season. We are excited to try the upland rice here this year as well.

@JocinaKujna Год назад

Excellent thank you ☺️ my friend 😊 jocina 😺

@RemsFamily Год назад

That's awesome!

@janericvelure6883 11 месяцев назад

i think you wil enjoy joseph lofthouse work\ideas if you havent heard about him, he is into landracing

@daveknight1154 Год назад

I need to grow 5 acers of barley to make beer so I can be free of The Beer Store.

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

5 acers is a lot but at the same time it is doable potentially with some equipment!

@northerngirlhobbies Год назад

Is it possible the wind shook the seeds out? Great stuff folks!

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

It is , the terra oats are a bit different than more conventional oats. It did turn the golden brown colour a bit before the wheat did so it is likely wind or rain knocked them out (it might be all in the timing so will see how it goes this year!)

@northerngirlhobbies Год назад

@@HickorycroftFarm I think you'll have loads!

@driverguy7 Год назад

Sheaf, shock, stack, or stook of wheat. Thank you for making this video !!

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

Thank you so much for watching, and for helping with our blank minds lol. It is funny how often that happens when filming.... you know you should know it but it is just out of reach 😃

@ThorHavenFarm Год назад

You guys were much smart than us and didn't allow your chickens into the wheat!! LOL

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

Our chickens are garden destroyers! At least when they are older. half grown chickens on their own seem to only go for the bugs but they are still to small to be out in the garden without the hen, and she's always the destructive one!

@janew5351 Год назад

You also grew the sorghum, isn't it a grain as well? Ever thought of trying the Elkhorn variety?

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

We did and yes it technically is. We haven't processed the seed from it yet but wanted to get this video out. The sorghum grows a lot easier than the other grains though (oats, wheat, barley) a lot like corn hence why its much easier. We have thought of trying a few different wheat varieties to see. I've dabbled in it a little but never had a lot of luck except with the red fife so far.

@northerngirlhobbies Год назад

Wheat bouquet 😁

@katieherrera9610 7 месяцев назад

where do you buy seeds?

@pseudopetrus Год назад

It's tempting, do you make a cup cake, or plant the red fife wheat? Just kidding!

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

lol but it is true to a degree it takes a lot to make flour out of grains....

@sarahsapien8847 Год назад

🙂

@mylesfalconer9183 Год назад

Have you read gene logsdon book, small scale grain raising?

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

We have that in our physical library! It's a good book!

@tracybruring7560 Год назад

this is the reason farmers resort to round up

@HickorycroftFarm Год назад

yah when you get into wheat, oats and barley I would agree... honestly I don't know if it would actually be feasable to grow grains on the scale that they are grown (not including corn in this) without the herbicides..... Kind of the worlds biggest catch 22 in a way...