i harvested the wheat in my yard thirty-seven days ago...and since i have a few days off i felt the time had come to begin processing it...so i began to cut the ears of the straw...
i took the first one hundred and fifty ears...
and put them in a burlap bag...and, instead of using a grain flail or having the oxen walk on the ears in the threshing room...
i set the bag on a cinder block and whacked it with a stick...
until the grain had separated from the ears and most of the husks had come off...
no matter what day i choose to do this there never seems to be enough of a breeze to winnow the grain with so i brought one of the fans i use to ventilate the plant room in winter up and used it to winnow the grain by pouring it between tow containers in front of the fan until the chaff had blown away...
those ears rendered almost a quarter cup of "berries" which should mill to about a half cup of flour...
there is no uniformity of production in wheat, much less nature...
so i will simply have to process the remaining one thousand one hundred and thirty ears ( yes i counted ) to see how much flour the harvest will yield...stay tuned if interested...
elsewhere out back, tomatoes, jalepenos, and hot banana peppers are ripening...hot sauce?
in herb terms the borage and parsley are booming along...
sun flowers and their cousins the jerusalem artichokes are blooming away...
and the sunchokes, at least, are attracting visitors...
and other visitors are working on making a living out there as well...non-vegetarian however...summer is moving along and there are hints of autumn if you look...this season will be in the books before you know it.
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