Grinding winter wheat with a Porkert hand mill. The wheat is in the plastic bowl waiting to be ground.
Porkert hand mill and wheat waiting to be ground.
Porkert hand-crank flour mill with metal bowl containing the whole wheat ground flour and plastic bowl with remaining wheat to be ground.
Porkert hand mill and ground whole wheat flour.
Winter wheat (darker green strips) as it looks before spring growth.
Winter wheat (darker green strips) as it looks prior to spring growth.
Winter wheat in garden in May.
Winter wheat in May.
Winter wheat. Notice the red clover beginning to emerge amidst the wheat.
Winter wheat in May. Notice the clover begins to emerge using the wheat as a protective nurse crop.
Winter wheat nurse crop and emerging red clover.
Winter wheat with red clover.
Winter wheat beginning to mature and lighten as it ripens toward a golden color.
Winter wheat after the scythe and rake have done their work.
Ripening winter wheat with red clover beginning to mature.
Winter wheat maturing nurse crop ripening with red clover coming along in the same row.
Wheat cut with scythe and loaded in wheelbarrow. The rabbits will love this feast.
Winter wheat cut with scythe and loaded in wheelbarrow for transport to the garage.
Winter wheat cut with scythe and lying in row ready for raking.
Winter wheat cut with scythe and ready for rake.
Obviously not my backyard wheat. This photo is from our trip to Amish country, where they know how to grow wheat and harvest it with style. Here the bundles of wheat are stacked in shocks.
Another wheat photo from Ohio Amish country. Shocked awaiting thrashing.
A close-up of wheat bound in sheaves and stacked in shocks in Ohio Amish field.
Another Ohio Amish wheat photo. Wheat tied in bundles and stacked in shocks.
A very close photo of wheat sheaves stacked in Ohio Amish field. Shocking wheat.
Porkert hand-crank grain mill and ground whole wheat flour in metal bowl, with unground wheat berries in plastic bowl alongside.
Porkert hand-crank grain mill with wheat berries waiting to be ground into flour in plastic bowl alongside a flour sifter.
Porkert grain mill with wheat berries for flour.
Winnowing wheat the "new fashioned" old fashioned way, by pouring the wheat and chaff back and forth into buckets in front of a fan.
Winnowing winter wheat in front of a fan. The light, fine chaff blows away, while the heavier wheat berries fall into the bucket.
The chaff lies on the ground.
Winter wheat (darker green strips) awaiting the coming of spring.
Winter wheat beginning to ripen into a lighter green, then golden color.
Wheat berries will be ground into whole wheat flour to make the world's best raspberry thumbprint cookies.
Threshing winter wheat the "new old fashioned" way with a plastic baseball bat. A sheet is spread on the concrete garage floor; the wheat is spread over that; then we work out our frustrations by beating it until the grain falls out of the wheat straw.
Gathering up the straw from the floor after threshing the winter wheat.
A closer view of winnowing the wheat from the chaff.
Winter wheat harvested, threshed, and winnowed. Wheat is in the bucket on the right. Chaff lies blown away on the ground to the left.
Winter wheat 2008. Lower left half of easement.
2008 Poor stand of winter wheat in the left half of the lower easement. Water stands too much over winter and drains very poorly in the spring, making it hard to establish wheat, red clover, or alfalfa. Still, you farm the land you have.
Alfalfa emerging in the nurse-crop of winter wheat.
