Posted: 4/17/2011 12:27:36 PM EDT
| anyone grow Wheat for making bread ect? Thinking about trying it this year. |
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anyone grow Wheat for making bread ect? Thinking about trying it this year. I've read about it, it looks like it's a lot more do-able than I previously figured. I had always imagined that it took a lot of acreage to provide grains for a family so I never really bothered, but I've recently read more about it and hope to start growing some wheat and oats to supplement my chicken feed starting next year. I'd love to see a write-up from someone who grew and used their own grain on a small scale like that. |
| I just can't imagine that growing a small amount 1 acre would be worth your time and effort for what you would recoup, compared to what you can buy. Maybe it would work out to be worth it? I mean it is different if you have to do it, but if you don't have the equipment to plant and cut it, it would be pretty labor intensive during planting and harvest anyway. more so if you irrigate it. |
| Small Scale Grain Raising has a lot of good information on growing wheat and other grain crops for home use. When I was in Iraq, our AO was in a heavily agricultural part of the country, and many of the local farmers grew wheat, among other grain crops. They don't have the money for combines and big fancy tractors, so they would cut it with a weed eater and hand thresh the grain. Lots of work, but they managed to build some pretty impressive grain piles doing it. |