Stephen Simpson: thank you very much for this excellent series. I’m just starting out, and wish to learn. Starting out with Green that’s going to need I guess some threshing, Although most of the straw is gone, there’s still husks, so this is a good place for me to start. I’m wondering if I can do the drying process in a food dehydration machine, on the lowest setting? The lowest sitting on mine is 95°F. I’d be very interested in your opinion on the matter, sir.
My 7 year old boy has been wondering about how to make wheat for years. We just came upon this with his little brother and all really enjoyed watching it. So much hard work involved! Thank you for posting.
Thank you so much for putting in the time to make this video, it was a real treat for the soul to watch it. The many hours it must have taken just to set this up hasn't gone unnoticed , again many thanks and I wish you all the best in the future.
Such a blessing that some people care enough to do stuff like this. This man took a lot of time to make this video editing it and all that. The things we take for granted. Thank you Lord for an awakened soul, and for the wisdom to take absolutely nothing for granted.
I grew a passion for baking sourdough breads throughout my culinary career. Getting to see the entire process from start to finish is amazing. Bread is so versatile and has such a profound connection to the human race. The smell of the fresh milled grain must be like heaven, especially after all the hard work behind growing it
I just had breakfast but now I am hungry again. Truly one of the great how to videos. At this time there are five people that I really do not understand. There is nothing here to unlike. The man even tells us this is just his way of doing it.
A 50m2 plot yields 20 to 25 kg of wholemeal flour. In my situation with a 4 year crop rotation (3 years cropping & 1 year fertility building), I find wheat a worthwhile crop because I also use the straw for mulching. Every situation is different and so it is difficult to answer your question. If you have spare land, then fallowing with fertility building cover crops may well be a better option for you.
Well done! Just the right amount of taking needed to follow along. Others tend to ramble on and on. Not you Sir. Thank you. I appreciate your calm spirit.
I hope you know how awesome you are! This is my first year growing wheat and I just took it out yesterday. Thank you so much for going through the whole process, now I feel a little more confident in what I need to do.
wow i would really love to be able to grow my own bread! i never knew how much work was put into such a simple looking item at the store. now i feel like i appreciate it more. thank u so much for the insight.
I know the comment is old but you will rarely find the procedure this labour intensive. Almost all the flour for store bread comes from massive farms. It's all gps guided tractors for spraying, harvesting and then at the mill it's all machine as well. You'd be hard pressed to even find a water mill these days.
I want to say that I make bread all the time. Hubby suffered a heart attack and although the docs say his issue was purely genetic and that he already had an amazing diet, I take extra steps now. You are clearly using my same recipe. I tried cutting out the salt altogether but the taste was too bland. At 1 teaspoon of salt though i find it quite appealing with just enough salt to heighten the flavor. - just a nice tip mentioned for those on restrictive diets to help them continue to enjoy food.
Hi I have just watched your video and found it very interesting I too have an allotment and try to be self sufficient in as much produce as possible. Your Wheat growing and Bread making is a credit to you Well Done
@staba69 Thank you, this is an important question. I have tried to do a very rough estimate for a 25m2 yielding 50 loaves. Labour requirements are; planting 1 hr, weeding ½ hr, harvesting 3 hrs, threshing & cleaning 3 1/2 hrs = total 8 hrs @ £7.00 = £56.00. Rent £ 9.50, petrol £ 3.00 & depreciation of equipment over 20 years £ 25.00. The total annual costs are £ 93.50 divided by 50 loaves = £ 1.87 per loaf, plus whatever it costs for baking, which would bring the cost to over £2.00 per loaf.
That was awesome. Six years old and I still enjoyed your video very much! I have cases of wheat in storage for the Big one... but nice to see a neat operation. You should be very proud of yourself.
Thank you for your video. I planted a plot of wheat last year and have been enjoying bread all winter from it. It is a lot of work but worth it. I need to make a thresher this year as I am going to expand a little. Thanks again for a very informative video.
@GardenDavesProjects Hi there, threshing is the process of removing the wheat grains from the ear of wheat. Think of the chaff as tiny leaves that surround the wheat grain when it is held in the ear. You get rid of the chaff because you only want the wheat grain. Whole meal flour is made by grinding the whole of the grain, where as white flour has the bran (or skin of the grain) removed. Hope this helps.
You Sir, are amazing! I would care to invite myself for one of your lovely rolls and a cup of tea but its rude to invite oneself! Your thresher is that removing the seed coat. It looks like a chipper. I kind of wish I could see what the machine is actually doing on the inside. Also I make basically the same bread. That is a very cool trick putting that screen over the top of the last rise. I just want to say face palm and duh and why didn't I think of that. sometimes the simple things escape me.
Thank you. I loved the video and look forward to planting. You should sell the hand cranked mill on your site or be an affiliate and put a link from your site to the manufacture. Thanks!
10 out of 10 for this video. I recently started looking at grwoing wheat, fortunate to have the space in the middle of the countryside, so this really has inspired me and also helped with the knowledge of how to do this. All we need now is good UK weather. Thanks for sharing your work.
Hello, this video is and Part one is amazing.. I enjoyed it a lot. In my math class we are researching how much it would cost to plant wheat on 170 acres of land. I never thought of how much work goes into a loaf of bread, but I sure do enjoy these videos you put together. thank you!
Great video thanks. This year I'm growing 2 sq m of wheat just for fun, and impressed thats its grow so fast. I've inherited my dad's hand plough and would love to have the space to use it! Love the machines, but I think i'll be doing by hand this time
Great job. I will be giving it a go for next year. I want to experiment to see if I can grow enough for my family for the year. Thank you for the inspiration.
Absolutely fantastic!!! I really appreciate people like this gentleman. Their determination and ingenuity is inspiring. I bet that bread tastes better than brought bread or bread made from brought flour. I love making my own bread but I have to admit it can be a hard act to keep up. So important to never let these old skills disappear. We must keep our old cultural methods of self sufficiency alive and keep handing these skills on to the next generation. It is survival at the end of the day.
Very recently started making my own bread and found this very educational and interesting. Will definitely give this a go on the veg patch soon. Thanks so much
Really enjoyed your clips, what I really liked is your machines, in particular the2 wheel tractor but really that thrasher! But all ur gear right down to the wheat dryer. Reading some of the comments it was really interest to see your cost break , again well done. Just as a matter of interest I was wondering if one had to convert some of the wheat in to 200 proof alcohol to run the machines how many loaves would be lost? Looking forward to see result and comment
I watched you video and thought, how satisfying it must feel to grow your own wheat and grind flour and then make your own bread! Truly wonderful to watch and wish I could do the same. I'm sure I could if I had the property and energy. I lack the energy because of health problems. But thank you for the wonderful and beautiful video.
I loved your video. I just received my wheat seed to plant this spring, and now I can hardly wait. I too am a bread baker and want to grow my own wheat. Thanks for your inspiration. Do you have plans for the threshing machine that you made and if so, would you share?.
@boxa888 Spring wheat planting time would depend on which part of the USA you are from. I think the northern states plant April-May for a August-September harvest. I think it best to check with local farmers.
@staba69 Continued: In economic terms, this is a very inefficient system - if you have a job and no free time. However, if you enjoy the outdoors and do not include labour costs I think it works out to £0.90 to £1.10 per loaf, depending on how you use your oven.The other benefit I get is the straw, which is used as mulch for vegetables. I am looking at ways to remove the petrol from the production process; your shop bought bread is of course dripping in oil.In the end,
@knokidn In the UK, allotments are rented gardens. Local government usually owns the land and local residents can rent a plot (300 yrd2) my rent this year is £ 36. Many allotment sites are managed by plot holder associations (kind of like community managed victory gardens if that makes sense to you)
Excellent video, I would love to farm but I am in a big city and don't even have a garden, this looks like so much effort, but it looks like it would pay off. I am maybe going to try and get an allotment, maybe try growing tomatoes or carrots to start with.
The reward is amazing when you do it from scratch, i grew my own barley like this and made my own beer. The beer was as good as any you could buy . its 2020 I'm really considering doing it again but with wheat this time instead of barley for a different flavor.
If there is enough interest, I will try to put some stills together on how to construct the threshing machine
Stephen Simpson: thank you very much for this excellent series. I’m just starting out, and wish to learn. Starting out with Green that’s going to need I guess some threshing, Although most of the straw is gone, there’s still husks, so this is a good place for me to start.
I’m wondering if I can do the drying process in a food dehydration machine, on the lowest setting? The lowest sitting on mine is 95°F.
I’d be very interested in your opinion on the matter, sir.
My 7 year old boy has been wondering about how to make wheat for years. We just came upon this with his little brother and all really enjoyed watching it. So much hard work involved! Thank you for posting.
Thank you so much for putting in the time to make this video, it was a real treat for the soul to watch it.
The many hours it must have taken just to set this up hasn't gone unnoticed , again many thanks and I wish you all the best in the future.
Such a blessing that some people care enough to do stuff like this. This man took a lot of time to make this video editing it and all that. The things we take for granted. Thank you Lord for an awakened soul, and for the wisdom to take absolutely nothing for granted.
That was fabulous. Thank you for sharing. April 2023, Maximus Ironthumper sent us to watch your video🌞.
Every community would be blessed to have a man like you!
My grandma and I are watching this together and she wants to know if you're available.
Your granny is in love with him. A man who baked bread with his own grown wheat. What's not to love.
Nothing hotter than a man who bakes his own bread in the oven
I grew a passion for baking sourdough breads throughout my culinary career. Getting to see the entire process from start to finish is amazing. Bread is so versatile and has such a profound connection to the human race. The smell of the fresh milled grain must be like heaven, especially after all the hard work behind growing it
This video makes me realize how lazy I am. Cool hobby, keeps you moving, working, food on the table and probably adds years to life.
Watching this video is a spiritual experience. Wonderful video. Give us this day our daily bread. Well done Sir.
Amen
Thinking of how Boaz left some for Ruth...amazing...🙂
I just had breakfast but now I am hungry again.
Truly one of the great how to videos.
At this time there are five people that I really do not understand.
There is nothing here to unlike.
The man even tells us this is just his way of doing it.
A 50m2 plot yields 20 to 25 kg of wholemeal flour. In my situation with a 4 year crop rotation (3 years cropping & 1 year fertility building), I find wheat a worthwhile crop because I also use the straw for mulching. Every situation is different and so it is difficult to answer your question. If you have spare land, then fallowing with fertility building cover crops may well be a better option for you.
I really enjoyed this video. It's very informative of the process from the start to finish. I may have to try my hand at this.
Wonderful! I was just hoping for cut and dry information on how to grow wheat, and I got to enjoy a lovely video, in addition!
Thank you for making this wonderful video
I found myself just smiling as I watched this. Very peaceful.
2023. I'm here following a link from 'Maximus Ironthumper'. What a fasinating and enjoyable video.
Me to there both great 👍
very good iron thumper sent me here. :D
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Well done! Just the right amount of taking needed to follow along.
Others tend to ramble on and on.
Not you Sir. Thank you. I appreciate your calm spirit.
This bloke is a legend... cheers from Sydney Australia down under !!
I hope you know how awesome you are! This is my first year growing wheat and I just took it out yesterday. Thank you so much for going through the whole process, now I feel a little more confident in what I need to do.
You have invented a home kitchen grain silo to dry grain! Ingenious. 👍🏻
Excellent series. Thank you; I liked the harrow machine, I may have to make one of those.
This was wonderful* loved it! Thank you so much for sharing this!
I feel like I just hung out with my grandpa. This is great.
A real máster Sr.. one of the most strait to the point videos I have seen on you tube. Easy to see and very well illustrated.
This is great! Love the two parts of this series. Very much enjoyed seeing the whole process. Very good work. Thank you!
OMG you are my hero!! I make bread by hand all the time but now I will start by growing my own wheat!!!!!!!!
The more of oneself one invests in their own food, the greater the appreciation... and the less waste. Thank you for creating and sharing.
Thanks Stephen, you look like a great person
wow i would really love to be able to grow my own bread! i never knew how much work was put into such a simple looking item at the store. now i feel like i appreciate it more. thank u so much for the insight.
I know the comment is old but you will rarely find the procedure this labour intensive. Almost all the flour for store bread comes from massive farms. It's all gps guided tractors for spraying, harvesting and then at the mill it's all machine as well. You'd be hard pressed to even find a water mill these days.
Excellent thank you for talking the time to make this video!
Great video, I'll be saving this and giving a go next year :)
Mr. Simpson,
This is a great video. Thank you so much for sharing it with us!
Respectfully,
BBoucharde
USA
Lovely. Thank you. This was not only informative, but pleasurable to watch.
I want to say that I make bread all the time. Hubby suffered a heart attack and although the docs say his issue was purely genetic and that he already had an amazing diet, I take extra steps now. You are clearly using my same recipe. I tried cutting out the salt altogether but the taste was too bland. At 1 teaspoon of salt though i find it quite appealing with just enough salt to heighten the flavor. - just a nice tip mentioned for those on restrictive diets to help them continue to enjoy food.
You sir, are a genius. I hope to be as handy and skilled as you one day! Excellent job.
Nicely done! I'm impressed with the ammount of effort you put into every aspect of it!
excellent video. thank you sir. a lot of us city folk have no idea of the wheat growing and bread making process.
Hi I have just watched your video and found it very interesting I too have an allotment and try to be self sufficient in as much produce as possible. Your Wheat growing and Bread making is a credit to you Well Done
Fantastic! Thanks for taking the time to show us how to do this!
Thank you, Mr Simpson, and bravo!
I see you have learned from the ancient masters.
Very professional. Thank you. :)
Best "How to" video I have seen in months. well done.
@staba69 Thank you, this is an important question. I have tried to do a very rough estimate for a 25m2 yielding 50 loaves. Labour requirements are; planting 1 hr, weeding ½ hr, harvesting 3 hrs, threshing & cleaning 3 1/2 hrs = total 8 hrs @ £7.00 = £56.00. Rent £ 9.50, petrol £ 3.00 & depreciation of equipment over 20 years £ 25.00. The total annual costs are £ 93.50 divided by 50 loaves = £ 1.87 per loaf, plus whatever it costs for baking, which would bring the cost to over £2.00 per loaf.
That was awesome. Six years old and I still enjoyed your video very much! I have cases of wheat in storage for the Big one... but nice to see a neat operation. You should be very proud of yourself.
Simply marvelous, Stephen!
Thank you for your video. I planted a plot of wheat last year and have been enjoying bread all winter from it. It is a lot of work but worth it. I need to make a thresher this year as I am going to expand a little. Thanks again for a very informative video.
thank you sir for giving us in a very simple and minuet way how a loaf of bread comes in our hand.....i m dinesh from maharastra india.......
this was beautiful to watch. thank you for sharing with us sir. U.S.
@GardenDavesProjects Hi there, threshing is the process of removing the wheat grains from the ear of wheat. Think of the chaff as tiny leaves that surround the wheat grain when it is held in the ear. You get rid of the chaff because you only want the wheat grain. Whole meal flour is made by grinding the whole of the grain, where as white flour has the bran (or skin of the grain) removed. Hope this helps.
Thumbs up and thanks for sharing. It looks like just as much work as I had thought was. ;) Looks like good bread too.
Good show! Thank you.
thank you very much for sharing part 1 and part 2. i will remember these videos and share with others.
I enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for the hard work and uploading it.
thanks for the wonderful videos, my daughter had an assignment "seed to loaf" we all enjoyed watching it . God bless you sir.
Thank you for giving us part of your time to watch an educational video :)
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+Phillip Bormann u sound high
well done and yes, I'd love to see how you make the threshing machine.
@ashleew43 The plot yielded 25 kg, which gives around 50 whole meal loaves, or put another way one small loaf per square meter
Great series my friend.. Thank you for sharing.
Mrs. Motta's Class loves your video! We are learning where food comes from and found your video informative. The bread looks delicious!
You Sir, are amazing! I would care to invite myself for one of your lovely rolls and a cup of tea but its rude to invite oneself! Your thresher is that removing the seed coat. It looks like a chipper. I kind of wish I could see what the machine is actually doing on the inside. Also I make basically the same bread. That is a very cool trick putting that screen over the top of the last rise. I just want to say face palm and duh and why didn't I think of that. sometimes the simple things escape me.
WOW! Thanks for sharing. Can't wait to try this myself!
I thoroughly enjoyed your video. Very relaxing well done for your efforts. I might just give it a try.
Thank you. I loved the video and look forward to planting. You should sell the hand cranked mill on your site or be an affiliate and put a link from your site to the manufacture. Thanks!
@TheWaldorock Just keep some of the harvest for planting next year, store it in a glass jar or tin in a cool dry place.
10 out of 10 for this video. I recently started looking at grwoing wheat, fortunate to have the space in the middle of the countryside, so this really has inspired me and also helped with the knowledge of how to do this. All we need now is good UK weather.
Thanks for sharing your work.
Thank you for making that beautiful video of the process from seed to loaf!
Hello, this video is and Part one is amazing.. I enjoyed it a lot. In my math class we are researching how much it would cost to plant wheat on 170 acres of land. I never thought of how much work goes into a loaf of bread, but I sure do enjoy these videos you put together. thank you!
And that's not even mentioning the making of all the other ingredients that go into bread. Highly impressive.
@seedtray1
Thanks for the videos. I planted my first plot of spring wheat this week.
Great video series. I really enjoyed how you did everything from start to finish. Awesome.
Great video thanks. This year I'm growing 2 sq m of wheat just for fun, and impressed thats its grow so fast. I've inherited my dad's hand plough and would love to have the space to use it! Love the machines, but I think i'll be doing by hand this time
This was so great! Thank you for sharing.
That must be the most rewarding thing ever biting in to one of those loaves of bread.
Great job. I will be giving it a go for next year. I want to experiment to see if I can grow enough for my family for the year. Thank you for the inspiration.
Absolutely fantastic!!! I really appreciate people like this gentleman. Their determination and ingenuity is inspiring. I bet that bread tastes better than brought bread or bread made from brought flour. I love making my own bread but I have to admit it can be a hard act to keep up. So important to never let these old skills disappear. We must keep our old cultural methods of self sufficiency alive and keep handing these skills on to the next generation. It is survival at the end of the day.
These videos were Dope AF!!! Was diggin the soundtrack also, cooler than eskimo's sack. You are a trill dude and I hope you keep baking that bread!!!
Very recently started making my own bread and found this very educational and interesting. Will definitely give this a go on the veg patch soon. Thanks so much
This was a wonderful and healthy video...Thank you so much
Really enjoyed your clips, what I really liked is your machines, in particular the2 wheel tractor but really that thrasher! But all ur gear right down to the wheat dryer. Reading some of the comments it was really interest to see your cost break , again well done. Just as a matter of interest I was wondering if one had to convert some of the wheat in to 200 proof alcohol to run the machines how many loaves would be lost? Looking forward to see result and comment
Beautiful. Must be nice having mother nature do the watering.
I watched you video and thought, how satisfying it must feel to grow your own wheat and grind flour and then make your own bread! Truly wonderful to watch and wish I could do the same. I'm sure I could if I had the property and energy. I lack the energy because of health problems. But thank you for the wonderful and beautiful video.
Excellent video. Thank you very much for going through all the time lapsing for viewers.
This was amazing! Wonderfully explained and concise!
Thanks for uploading. Im just aboiy to apply for my first allotment.
I loved your video. I just received my wheat seed to plant this spring, and now I can hardly wait. I too am a bread baker and want to grow my own wheat. Thanks for your inspiration. Do you have plans for the threshing machine that you made and if so, would you share?.
Great video, just made my first homemade bread recently and was interested in the process as a whole. Thanks
..very well done..that was a nice and informative video..
@boxa888 Spring wheat planting time would depend on which part of the USA you are from. I think the northern states plant April-May for a August-September harvest. I think it best to check with local farmers.
Absolutely fantastic video - thank you.
This is such an awesome series! Well done, you have your wheat harvest method down to a science!
@staba69 Continued: In economic terms, this is a very inefficient system - if you have a job and no free time. However, if you enjoy the outdoors and do not include labour costs I think it works out to £0.90 to £1.10 per loaf, depending on how you use your oven.The other benefit I get is the straw, which is used as mulch for vegetables. I am looking at ways to remove the petrol from the production process; your shop bought bread is of course dripping in oil.In the end,
Excellent 2 part 'how to' there, well done.
And I'd guess that bread tastes so damn good!
Very good, that was fun to watch and inspirational to keep me adding more to my garden.... Thank You
@knokidn In the UK, allotments are rented gardens. Local government usually owns the land and local residents can rent a plot (300 yrd2) my rent this year is £ 36. Many allotment sites are managed by plot holder associations (kind of like community managed victory gardens if that makes sense to you)
Excellent video, I would love to farm but I am in a big city and don't even have a garden, this looks like so much effort, but it looks like it would pay off.
I am maybe going to try and get an allotment, maybe try growing tomatoes or carrots to start with.
Very cool video man! Thank you for your time to make and show us this!!
The reward is amazing when you do it from scratch, i grew my own barley like this and made my own beer. The beer was as good as any you could buy . its 2020 I'm really considering doing it again but with wheat this time instead of barley for a different flavor.
Such fantastic and inspiring videos. I've gotten into bread baking with hopes I'll grow my own wheat someday. cheers!
I have learned so very much viewing your videos.
Thank you so kindly and Blessings !