From seed to loaf (part 1 of 2) allotment scale production of bread making wheat
This video is about small-scale wheat production using modified garden machinery and a home-built threshing machine. I grow my own wheat and make bread not because its 10% cheaper but because I think its 100% better – and it gives me great satisfaction. Growing wheat this way is an indulgence as it requires a certain amount of land, if space is tight growing vegetables and salad crops makes more sense. If you want to try yourself, please check first to see if wheat will grow in your area. Enjoy whatever you grow and remember -look after the land and the land will look after you.
Tagged with: allotment • Bread • From • Loaf • Making • Part • production • scale • Seed • Wheat
Filed under: Organic Vegetables
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this video is sad
Minecraft led me here ^^
Awesome wheat crop! Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant and inspiring!
I just watched both parts, amazing!
I take my hat off to you, I believe it is safe to say that you have everyone’s respect here on youtube!
Please keep making videos like this, thank you for sharing.
I am an organic farmer in Hong Kong and I really appreciate that you share with us your experience. In Hong Kong, farm are very small, usually about 15000 sq ft, we have to do most of the jobs by hand. Your hand made machinery do give us a lot of inspiration. thanks Teresa
yeah but dosent that cost more than just buying bread? Isin’t it more work? Just kidding.
@TheGreatTamara A good yield will give around 50 small loaves.
How many loaves do you usually get from that size of field?
@seedtray1 Bizzare that I wrote 7:38! I meant to say: 1:44 , but then you say it later on; a “push hoe”. Thanks for getting back to me anyway.
@rickvanman I am not sure which piece of equipment you refer to as part one of the video ends at 7.38. Perhaps you could let me know the time sequence in the video from — min to — min.
Whats the name of the device you use at 07:38?
Thanks for posting your video. From seed to your wonderful looking bread. I learned something from watching your videos.
@rrhase Thank you for your comments. I am working on another video but it is going to take some time to complete. I hope to finish it sometime in the winter of 2012. I am glad you enjoyed the experience of growing your own wheat and reconnecting to the land. All the best and take care.
threashing. Once again, thank you for your inspiration. That was an experiance I never want to miss in my life.
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harvesting quite hard. For the wheat, I used a self made threashingmaschie. Not as sophisticated as yours, but it made it’s job. I have seen, you gave a building instruction for your type of threashing maschine on the internet. But I would appreciate a more closely look into the system by a video here on youtube. That would help me, improving my own “invention”. May be, you are interested in my “cerial production” in my garden. There are severel videos on my channel, from seeding til
Hello
Your video has inspired me to try it myself. I have tried 50 m2 of wheat and 50 m2 of rye. I was realy impressed by the sight of my own small field in my garden. And I have learned, how much work it is, to produce my own bread and I’m admiering our ancesters who have done it this way for centurys. The harvest was 35 Kilo of whaet and 30 Kilo of rye. Threashing was qute hard for me. Rye, I have threashed with a flail because a storm has put the stalks to the ground, which made
Makes me wish i had an allotment, but the nearest one is a couple of miles away and i have no transportation. I only have a small garden but i make the most of it. I was thinking of growing a little wheat. I have some seed already. You video makes me want to even more!
WOW, this is fantastic, that thumb down must have been an accident
Hella cool
I thought this was minecraft >_>
@seedtray1: Lovely video and as a fellow small-scale cereal grower of some years trying I endorse your methods. My only suggestion: instead of the dryer, on a sunny September day, spread the grain out on tarmac or a flat roof – a few hours in the sun is sufficient. I’d like to see the drawings of the machine but fear I do not have your amazing engineering skills. I’ve found the Prehistoric (as documented by J Ceasar) method of snapping off the ears then hand/foot threshing quite efficient.
I appreciate this video more than I expected to. I’m a college student and ran across this video while researching the benefits of whole grain. I’m also overweight and want to begin a healthier lifestyle. For me, this means a complete “re-wiring” of my thinking (and taste buds!). I have to learn to appreciate the taste of fresh, whole foods and break a life-long relationship with the processed food industry. I greatly admire your lifestyle and the simple satisfaction of working the land.
@littlechefxxx Yields vary but I can get 25kg from 55 m2 (about one small wholemeal loaf per square meter)
how much wheat dose ur plot produces .
Very informative.