Harvesting Our Wheat & Turning it Into Flour! 🌾✂️👩🍳 // Garden Answer
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Farming is very hard work. Thank you to all the farmers out there for all you do.
Amen!
Heck yeah. I praise them every time I have to wash produce from my own garden. Especially lettuce, celery, and potatoes.
My dad was a farmer and yes very hard work. No one thanks a farmer face to face!
Ditto!!!
Thankyou to all our farmers. Every time I try and grow food. I thank a farmer
Amazing. This is something every school child should see so that they can relate to what is on their table. Bravo Laura. You really are a garden/farming hero!
I was just thinking that, how fascinating to watch this. I’ll be watching this video again along with my 11 yr old, he’ll love it! 😍
Meanwhile at the grocery store...Wheat Flour $2.49/lb. 😂 Gives me a serious appreciation for what I can buy so easily without thinking about the work that went into it.
Something every school child should DO. Took ours out so they could learn all this. What a difference it has made in them!! Great video.
Hmmmm.. capitalism economic system is a lot of work just to get a few slice of bread 🍞 😋.. want some crumbs, anyone...?
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Pay attention folks. You're going to need these skills in the future!
Yes, I am sure.
That’s ludicrous thing to say.
In England the barns have big doors opposite each other so that thrashing can be done, winnowing too allowing the through draft to take the chaff . The wheat berries being heavier drop and the chaff blows away. To stop the berries being blown away at ground level, boards were slotted into the doors, they were called thrasholds which became in common usage threshold .
O_O i never knew that!
I love that
Fresh milled flour is awesome for pancakes! also, sift off some of the germ and bran. It will lighten it quite a bit. Save the germ and bran that you sifted in the freezer to add to recipes for Irish brown soda bread and dusting the outside of your bread loaves. Whole wheat flour with all the germ and bran still in it will go bad faster so in future I recommend milling it as you need it. The wheat berries will stay fresh for a lot longer in their berry form. Milling releases the oils in the germ and bran and the oils go rancid. That's why whole wheat flour has less of a shelf life than white flour. Thanks for all of your amazing content Laura. I don't know what I would do without you.
Thank you for this valuable information. I had heard about the flour going bad quicker but utilizing the germ and bran is a great idea. Good to know some of the options available. 😊
That flour is going to go rancid if you don't use it quickly. Keep it cold to make it last longer?
Also make enough dough to make bread and cinnamon rolls! Mmmm
I keep my fresh ground flour in the freezer, keeps it fresh longer.
I keep all my flour in the freezer for it last longer and wont germinate bugs too
Here in India, we usually buy wheat in bulk during the harvest season (around April here) and store it in aluminium grain bins for the whole year and most people have a flour mill at their home in which you can grind fresh flour. You can also set the mill depending upon if you want smooth or coarse flour.
Yes ,this is so
I'd love to the kinda home grinder you have, can you share a link? Thanks
Not our home. But the town has grinders
If u can harvest wheat u r Not just a gardner but now a fully fledged farmer. Congratulations.
Excellent video.
Hey Laura ... baker here. You used whole wheat flour for your biscuits hence why they were denser. The bran in the whole grain cuts the gluten strands. You need to "bolt the flour" aka sift the bran out. Awesome video!!
You can also soak the biscuit dough for a few hours, just the flour, fat, and liquid. Then add salt, baking powder/soda, and sugar if desired.
What do you mean...that the bran cuts the gluten strands ? If you don't mind explaining.
absolutely @@ramsrnja
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I'm assuming it means the tiny particles 'interrupted' the gluten from forming strands? Their presence prevented formation?
@@dethmaul Ahhhh ok, that went past me. Thank you.
As a baker I've learned to keep my flour in the freezer. Or at least the fridge.
How long does freshly milled wheat last in the freezer?
Yes, freezing flour is best.
I've always kept mine in the freezer.
I'm not much of a kitchen person but if I ever have a cup of flour in the house I keep it in the freezer.
They have the root cellar.
I can’t believe you’ll be able to bake bread from your very own garden. Not many people out there that can say the same 😮
Just like a homesteader. Some I’m sure do. Most buy the wheat berries though.
Really time intensive, too! Bet learning this whole process, from seed to bread, really makes you appreciate the whole farm-to-table experience and our farmers! Thanks so much for sharing this with us, Laura. 💕
This was a FUN process to watch!! Thank you for showing the process at the garden center too. That was a LOT of work😳
I think I’d rather just buy a bag of King Arthur Flour! I get why this seems to be a “thing” right now, but not for me. And it’s pretty easy to find local or “artisanal” wheat flour now. But this was interesting to watch!
I think we might have been healthier and slept better when we did more farming for ourselves!
2:50, A glorious Wheat Reef, now that tops everything in this video
Thank you for sharing all the work that goes into making flour. You are doing a great service by showing all of this. God bless.
Everybody needs a “Paul and Bethany”. What a blessing to have such beautiful people in your life. ❤️
My words exactly!!!!
We love Paul and Bethany!!!
This was going to be my comment! We all need a Laura too!
Agreed. Also they are a good team. Some siblings does not work that well together
I agree 100% They both are hard workers.
I like to think I could be more Laura-y if my husband was more Aaron-y...but alas, neither of us excel in any Garden Answer type stuff.
I did the same thing when I was 30 (40 years ago!) Grew my own wheat, milled it by hand and made some bread. I learned a lot - one of them being never to do it again! So much work for a loaf of bread!
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Hahah, i love it! Thanks for sharing your wisdom 😂
😂 Choosing our battles!🤣
Seriously, ain't nobody got time for that! 🤦
You might want to start reading the ingredients on things you purchase in the store now. I've noticed that every corn starch label, I've read now has bioenginered products in it, as well as most soups, and sauces.
In the bible they had to rely on the wind to separate the chaff from the wheat. Great illustration! Matthew 3:12 He is ready to separate the chaff from the wheat with his winnowing fork. Then he will clean up the threshing area, gathering the wheat into his barn but burning the chaff with never-ending fire.”
Our people who did it this way are all passed away now..this is truly good hard work....what pleasure to see you do this, unfortunately I can't eat any wheat anymore...way to go go girl !!!
Some of Laura’s talents I am aware of are: she does calligraphy, drives forklifts, plays piano, she’s a great artist, cooks well, of course we know her as a plant expert and now she has learned to mill her own wheat.
What is next? ☺️
So versatile…I’m in awe.
Thank you for a really interesting video and continued blessings to y’all ✌🏼💓🙏🏼🌱
Well said!!
She also knits 💖
Crafting & decorating also 👍
Energizer bunny for sure 😊
All this while raising children too.
This was so cool. I can’t believe how much flour you got from your harvest. Impressive.
We all need a Paul and Bethany in our lives!!! They are the best.
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I've never met them and haven't even really seen their faces but I love Paul and Bethany, LOL. Also Ken!
Great video, Laura! Fun to watch all the process to go through to make flour ❤️
Huge respect for all your efforts. Also... it was quite peaceful and beautiful to watch the process... I imagined my grandfather's parents and grandparents working together as they did these tasks on the barn floor, out of the Norwegian weather.
@@lilygirl2719that’s because she respects their privacy, as per their wishes, otherwise she gets their permission beforehand.
I worked at a seed cleaning place as a kid and the machine that cleaned the seed was 100 years old then. Amazing how they work.
Thats the way actually we all should live, near nature and nurture
I would love to see you collaborate with Monica on a few harvesting, cooking, freezing and pickling videos with all your produce!
I thought the same!
Oh, that would be nice!
I love it when Monica is the guest star
That would be AWESOME!! And Mom too!! 😊
Let’s call this video A Little Red Hen moment. Laura planted the wheat, she watered the wheat, she reaped the wheat, milled and baked it! 🙌
I thought of the Little Red Hen too!
Plus she shared her knowledge, processing, we are all left happy ❤.
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I was thinking the same thing. 😊
Lol😅YES‼️, I just had to Google that because I couldn't remember the name of the story. 😆❤️
This was so fun to watch !!! I believe we as a country need to turn back to the basics, the natural way of living. As we can see here with you Laura, your life, meaning your light force, is abundant because you are close to nature every day and you are doing WHOLESOME, PURE things that provide for your family. We all need to know we can take care of ourselves instead of relying on others and your videos are PROVING IT CAN BE DONE AND ALSO CAN BE FUN !!!! WE NEED TO THRIVE, NOT JUST SURVIVE !!!! I think you are an Angel to all of us. You definitely are to me. Thank You for being a light in the middle of the storm. 💥🌾🌻😊🌻🌾💥
Thank you... so informative...I never knew how hard harvesting what is. I will appreciate it more now
Paul and Bethany are such a wonderful blessing!💞
Start to finish this was an amazing process. Thank you for taking us from seed, growing, harvesting, and then your amazing biscuits. Awesome video Laura.
💎THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the last age in which God saves man from the destruction of this old world"
(This may be a reminder for most people of God's words from Genesis: "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness." Suppose God is saying that "let us" make man in "our " picture, then "ours" shows two or more; since He said "ours," then God is not only one. In this way, man begins to think generally of different persons, and from these words came the idea of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. At the time Moses wrote Genesis, was after the creation of mankind following the creation of the world. In the beginning, when the world, Moses did not exist yet. And it was a long time before Moses wrote the Bible, so how could he possibly know what God said in heaven? He was unaware of how God created the world. What is written in the Old Testament is the work of Jehovah, a phase of the work of God Himself for ushering in the Age of Law. This is the work of God, where as He spoke, it happened, and as He commanded, it remained. When all is said and done, whether it is the Father or the Son, They are one Spirit, not divided into separate persons. When man speaks of separate persons, does it not reflect God? Jehovah is the Spirit, and also a substance of Jesus. Doesn't the Spirit of God simply carry out the work of the Spirit from different perspectives?" Because of this, there is no distinction between persons.)
Almighty God said
This can be a REMINDER for most PEOPLE of GOD'S WORDS from GENESIS: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Suppose GOD says "we" will CREATE MAN in "our" IMAGE, then "we" SHOWS TWO or MORE; since He SAID "we," then GOD is NOT one. IN THIS WAY, MAN BEGAN TO THINK GENERALLY OF DIFFERENT PERSONS, AND FROM THESE WORDS HAD THE IDEA OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT. What then does the Father look like? What does the Son look like? And what does the Holy Spirit look like? ☀️🙏
Could it be that the present man was made in the image of the one who was put together from the three? Then is the image of man like that of the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit? 🙏
WHICH of the persons of GOD is the image of MAN? This idea of MAN is ABSOLUTELY WRONG and NONSENSE! It can only separate one God from several Gods. 🙏
AT THE TIME Moses WROTE GENESIS, it was AFTER MANKIND WAS CREATED AFTER THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. In the BEGINNING, when the WORLD began, Moses did NOT exist. And IT TOOK A LONG TIME FOR MOSES TO WRITE THE BIBLE, so HOW could he possibly KNOW WHAT GOD SAID in HEAVEN?🙏☀️
He is UNCONSCIOUS of HOW GOD CREATED THE WORLD. 🙏
In the OLD TESTAMENT of the Bible, there is NO mention of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, only the TRUE GOD, JEHOVAH, is PERFORMING His WORK in ISRAEL. ☀️
He is CALLED by different NAMES in the CHANGING TIMES, but this DOESN'T PROVE that each NAME REFERES to a different PERSON. Therefore, then wouldn't there be countless persons of God? What is WRITTEN in the OLD TESTAMENT is the WORK of JEHOVAH, A PHASE of the WORK of GOD HIMSELF for the START of the Age of Law. This is GOD'S WORK, where ACCORDING to what He SPOKE, it happened, and ACCORDING to what He commanded, it REMAINS. 🙏💐
AT NO TIME DID JEHOVAH SAY HE WAS THE FATHER WHO WOULD COME TO EFFECT THE WORK, or did He even foretell the coming of the Son to redeem mankind. WHEN IT CAME TO THE TIME OF JESUS, it was only mentioned that GOD became MAN to REDEEM ALL MANKIND, NOT that the SON CAME. ☀️
Because the times are not the same and the work that God Himself carries out is also different, He has to carry out His work within different kingdoms. In this way, the identity He represents is also different. PEOPLE BELIEVE JEHOVAH IS THE FATHER OF JESUS, but JESUS DOESN'T REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE, saying: "We were never identified as Father and Son; I and the Father in heaven are one. The Father is in Me and I am in the Father; when men see the Son, they see the Father in heaven." ☀️😪
When all is said and done, whether it is the Father or the Son, They are one Spirit, not divided into separate persons. By the time man attempts to explain, matters are complicated by the idea of different persons, as well as the relationship between Father, Son, and Spirit. WHEN MAN TALKS ABOUT separate persons, does it not reflect GOD? 🙏🔅
Man even ranks persons as first, second, and third; these are all mere human understandings, unworthy of reference, and utterly unreal! If you ask him: "How many are there in God?" He will say that God is the Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit: the one true God. If you ask him: "Who is the Father?" He will say: The Father is the Spirit of God in heaven; He rules over all, and He is the Lord of heaven." "Then is Jehovah the Spirit?" ☀️
He will say: "Yes!" If you ask him afterwards, "Who is the Son?" He will say that Jesus is the Son, anyway: "Then what is the story of Jesus? From whom did He come?" He will say: "Jesus was born of Mary through the shadowing of the Holy Spirit. " ☀️
"Then is not His substance also Spirit? Does His work also represent the Holy Spirit?
Jehovah is the Spirit, and also a substance of Jesus. Now in the last days, it goes without saying that the Spirit still works; how did He become different persons? Doesn't the Spirit of God just carry out the work of the Spirit from different perspectives? Because of this, there is no difference between personas. 🙏
From "Is There a Trinity?"
Fulfilled in "In the beginning He was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). ... and "When I looked up, someone handed me a book wrapped in a scroll. I opened it and I read on both sides the prayers, lamentations, and curses." (Ezekiel 2:9-10). ... "His garment was stained with blood. He was called the "Word of God" (Rev. 19:13).
The kingdom He brought down and set up in the highest in the sky so that it can occupy His creation in the universe and engrave on it the entirety of His Holy name "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD" 💐 fulfillment of (Mat. 16:18) "And I say as for you, you are Peter, on top of this rock I will build my Church, that even the power of death will not prevail over it.". ... and "The Letter to the Church in Philadelphia" (Rev. 3:7-13). ... And fulfillment of "The New Jerusalem" 💫 "The Spirit enveloped me, and the angel led me to the top of a very high mountain. He showed Me Jerusalem, the Holy City, coming down from heaven from God." (Rev. 3:7-13). ... " For the time has come in the house of God for the beginning of judgment in the house of God." (1 Peter 4:17). ... It is fulfilled that God Himself is our Pastor in (Rev. 7:17) 💐
"For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their PASTOR. He will lead them to springs of life-giving water; and God will wipe away the tears from their eyes"
📩 Calling and leading the sheep of God to His glorious Throne "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD"💐 to submit again to His authority so that He will continue to teach, guide and protect even in plague, famine and wild animals will not be moved by it and completely win this final battle with the big red dragon!
"They say with a loud voice, "Salvation comes from the Lamb, and from our God who sits on the Throne!" (Rev. 7:10). ... and it will be fulfilled that will be established above the sky/TH-cam in (Isaiah 2: 2 / 9:6) "On the Last Day, the mountain on which Jehovah's temple stands will stand out above all the mountains. All nations will flock there. " . . . "For a baby boy is born to us. The rule will be given to him; and he shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace."📩📨❤
Man thats fresh, pure, unbleached, uncontaminated! That's amazing. I really enjoyed watching this and your property is so beautiful.
Awesome video. A couple of ideas:
1. Soft flour is great for Neapolitan pizza with all the husks
2. Baking is best using weight not volume. Only North America uses volume, everywhere else baking is weight. Try this. Get 3 different bags of wheat and weigh 1 cup of flour and they will all have different weights
Exactly, I never understood why Americans don't just use gram measurements on a kitchen scale to get accurate results
This is amazing to me too. It makes you appreciate how hard our ancestors had to work to be able to eat!! I love that you do these things and we all learn sooo much from you!! Thanks Laura!!
💡Quick Tip: When cutting biscuits you shouldn’t twist the cutter. Cut straight down. If twisted, you’re sealing the edges and making them less flaky.
This is a wonderful video! Congratulations Laura. What a success this was! 👏👏👏
Thank you for taking the time to do this, it’s going to be important
A comforting channel. I love it. Thanks.
My appreciation for Laura and Garden Answer grew exponentially today with this video. I always learn from her, but this was next level. Thank you, Laura, for sharing, educating and inspiring. You are a gift.
Laura, that’s amazing! You are right, long ago this is how they did it!!! Thanks 🙏 ❤❤❤
When I was a child, Granny would cook the scrappy cuts of biscuits for us kids. She called them Funny Biscuits. Of course, they tasted better than the grown up biscuits!!! A sweet memory!
Some childhood memories are so sweet and never forgotten !
My granny would form them into what we called snake biscuits!
My mom called them finishing biscuits.
Part of the reason your biscuits were short on the rise? Cut down on the twist you give that cutter.
Gramma used to just hop the cutter thru the dough like some demented rabbit, then peel up the scraps and cut 2 or 3 more. Then just pick up the biscuits, tuck them into a pan, and off to the oven.
I am 100% impressed. It’s easy to grow but the harvest can be hard but it’s worth it. Excellent 🙏🏻🌺
The name of the cutting tool is a scythe. I loved watching this. Again, I'm amazed at your work skills. Paul and Bethany are gems!
It's actually a sickle.
The garden center is the gift that just keeps on giving, I had no idea that they had mills there. They have everything!
I think it was a seed mill first and then later they added the garden center.
Grandmothers in Saudi Arabia used to use a sieve, which is a mesh like the one we saw in the factory, and then grind it on circular gravel that has a handle called a “mill.” I sympathize with them and say to our grandmothers, thank you very much. I liked your experience from A to Z. Thank you.
Try harvesting by shelves. You tie off a bundle, then cut below. All your stalks will be vertical. You can hold the shelves and beat it against something and it will free the wheat grain. It will be much faster.
This is yet another reason I watch Garden Answer faithfully. I have no inclination to grow wheat however, I can say I learned something from every video. This is no exception.
Same here! I’m always amazed at how fascinating I find topics on things I’ll never do.
Exactly! Never stop learning!
Laura, add white flour to the wheat flour, 2 to 1 mix. 2 parts white to 1 part wheat. I think you will be happy with that mix.
I prefer 2 parts wheat to 1 part white.
White is bleached
Oh I am glad someone said this. My mom ground whole wheat flour my whole life. She never made bread with 100% whole wheat flour. Usually mixed it 50/50 or 40/60.
I'm currently pregnant with my first baby, and I'm sitting here imagining doing this kind of thing with my kids someday. I think it would be a really fun way to show them where their food comes from, and have some fresh flour to make our own bread with. Maybe I can even find a local mill and ask to go on a tour with to see it on an industrial scale.
My father was a baker , the wheat berry/grain is so pure that in its original form before being ground /made into flour it can store in its grain form for upto 25years
Paul and Bethany are like having magic elves in your garden. They come behind you to clean and tidy, or weed, mulch, and water, etc. I know I’d love them in my garden. What a blessing they are. Great video.
🌾 🍞 🥐 🍪 “Reap what you sow”
A very satisfying beginning to end process Laura. I enjoyed all the stages of this process, but this post was rewarding to watch as you finally had produce from days and days of manual work. I hope everyone enjoyed their biscuits, pasta and croissants.
I love how when one grows up, they get so much hapiness from learning the basic things of life.
Thanks for the video
I grew up on these types of loaves where the bread doesn't rise as much. It's awesome for breakfast toasts. I like to dip that type of bread in my egg yolks. If I had room, I would definitely try to grow some.
Makes you appreciate how hard our farmers work to produce the food we so readily buy at the market!
Sitting here smiling ear to ear for you. How wonderful . Love watching you share the learning process. Husband just walked by and said.. “don’t even think about it!” 😂😂😂😂
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Laura can be a bad influence 😂😂😂
I agree with your husband!
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what a fun project and it all looks delicious. hint: try NOT to twist the biscuits as you form them with the cutter....it' 'seals' the edges, and you want those open!!! enjoy all winter!!
Well done! I grow a small area of wheat each year for making traditional corn dollies- not American corn dolls which are made from corn and are a whole nuther animal. Corn was the collective name used for any cultivated grain- most corn dollies were made from wheat. There are hundreds of designs and variations- some are stunning. Last year our crop was completely destroyed in a mouse plague, but spring begins here in Australia in four days- I shall re plant. Funny hearing you guys refer to the grain as berries :) And the pedant in me makes me add- it's threshing, not thrashing:) Looking forward to your next adventure! Jay.
This was biblical! Separating the chaff from the wheat was especially cool. I loved this video for many reasons; the process, your patience with it, the sense of of completion from beginning to end, including Paul and Bethany’s cleanup! Really fun! Thanks for sharing. ❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
Sometimes early morning I watch your videos just for the beauty of your home and all the plantings. It starts my day with beautiful things which to be honest help filter out the sadness and ugliness of our world in this point in time. This morning though watching the harvest, the physical work and your dedication to it, I realized that what's missing so much today is just the simple satisfaction of honest labor. Working so hard and being able to see the evidence of that labor is literally grounding for me and I'll bet others who follow your channel. Something as simple as planting a seed, tending and nurturing it, watching it grow.....the involvement of your mom making beautiful wreaths and then finally the harvest and ultimately, rest. Such a satisfying thing. I can almost taste the biscuits!
In India we use Strainers with small medium and larger holes to remove the husk and separate different sizes then we toss them in the air to get rid of minute and fine husk. We also use fan for this process.
Reminds me of the book of Ruth and how she was allowed to work the fields and visit the threshing floor. It was a persons life to work the fields.
Body by Land and sea! Your own fruits, veggies, eggs and now your own wheat. You are simply amazing.
We have the same mill!
Fresh milled flour isn’t quite as shelf stable as the store-bought flour. From what I’ve read, it should actually be refrigerated. Because of this, we only mill what’s needed for a single days baking. The good news is, when stored properly, wheat berries can last 25+ years!
Just thought I’d share. 😊
Love your excitement of learning an old skill. ❤
I loved seeing this because it made me appreciate my wheat berries SO much more! I know that most of the grains we get have used commercial machines to do the process that she is doing by hand here, but seeing the winnowing process and realizing how time-consuming it was for those without commercial machinery is amazing to see - and also bringing to mind the scriptures of separating the wheat from the chaff! Thank you for this! It's a learning process and a journey. During my first month of using FMF (freshly milled flour) and then having my yearly bloodwork, in only one month, my cholesterol dropped 95 points and all I changed was the flour! Hallelujah, I'm doing this for LIFE! For premium vitamins and all that the whole grain offers, I mill only what I am needing for the recipe I am making. So rewarding and true satisfaction!
I definitely recommend weighing your flour instead of using volume. It's more accurate and you don't need to worry about changing the measurement for fresh vs older flour. Kitchen scales are inexpensive and really changed up my baking game!
America’s Test Kitchen recommends that too - is there a conversion table for recipes that measure instead of weigh?
Definitely! Came here to see if someone suggested measuring by weight. It’s so much more accurate, highly improved my baked goods. I’m hoping Laura gives that a try.
Such a unique departure from our beloved ornamental/veggie gardening! Educational and fun. Thanks for more great content!!💚💚💚
I really enjoy your videos, you’re the Goldilocks of gardening videos… just enough chatter, thorough and informative, you go over details, pros and cons… siiiggh.. I just love your videos! Perfection!
The tool you used to hand cut the wheat 🌾 is called a scythe. It really is an amazing process isn’t it? We farm 2300 acres of wheat, beans, safflower, and hay.
Wow, it sure does make you appreciate what people did years ago. It's amazing that you can use the wheat you grew for your own food!
I don’t know how pioneers ever made it….I guess a lot of them didn’t. Makes me thankful! 🌻
I’m not crying - you are! What a process! What a skill to learn! Paul and Bethany! Seriously! Laura! What a video!!!!
You need help with that my goodness!
Skill? This is life in third world country. You’ve been sheltered your whole life.
Great video thanks for sharing I learned a lot about growing wheat. Beautiful surroundings your home and landscaping, and your vegetable area is very nice. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
Wow! I can't believe you did that! That's incredible! I buy soft white wheat berries and mill it and use it for bread all the time. It's great. Also, grate your butter for biscuits. Game changer.
This was such an interesting video! Loved seeing the process. I didn't mind the noise at the shop, because that was very cool to see all that wheat being processed.
I agree. I loved seeing the machinery. I wonder how old it is? Dare I call it beautiful. (I like vintage things)
This was so informative! We are very disconnected from how our food grows and what processes it goes through before it gets to our table, so I’m happy you shared this with us.
Yes totally disconnected
I have a book that says it's easiest to gather the wheat in bunches and get a bucket or whatever you're using, shake them upside down and knock them against the side of the buckets. Gets the stems out and it's waaaay faster
I've always wondered about how this is done. Thank you.
Between your parents steer raising and your vegetable and wheat growing ya’ll are a homesteading family. 😊 edit: With a wonderful clean up crew 😅.
Such an interesting video! I love that fact that you show planting to harvesting to food production. This is the type of information that should be shown in schools!
Ok, last thought. It took more water and felt different because of all the fiber in it. It absorbs a lot of moisture.
This is so cool. I moved to the Philippines 4 years ago. We have 7 acres, 2 acres of that is rice. Growing up in the Midwest, the first thing I thought was, “ that looks so much like wheat”…
The process is the same. Cut it, thresh it, take to the mill.
So… after learning that they import 90% of their wheat, why not give it a try. This last trip home I brought 4 lbs of red hard winter wheat. As of now it’s about 4” tall. If the flowers make it through the hot weather, we’ll be in good shape.
Loved your video!!!
Wow, we are so blessed to be able to buy flour at the store. I cannot even imagine how hard our ancestor’s had to work to provide for their families. I do love canning and making jams but, if we had to solely live off my production, we would probably starve! 😂😜. Great video
But you'd have a smile on your face from your yummy jam 🥰
it definitely explains why they considered things made with flour a treat, vs. a daily/every meal occurrence!
@@AB-ol5uz And skinnier too! :D
@@AB-ol5uzand this is the moral of the story isn’t it. We’re now mass producing crops that are actually not meant to be constantly consumed… interesting because our family is trying to grow as much food as possible and we’re shifting from grain products to more vegies and meat.
I remember seeing farmers in the Philippines grinding their flour manually using like a huge mortar and pestle sort of. I thought that was very tiring. Harvesting them was even hard too. They'd cut the stems with wheat berries then they'll hold the end and slam it in a huge make up sifter. To take the chaff off, they'll put it in a circular pan called bilao, which is made of weaved coconut leaves and slowly and throw the wheats in the air, just like a chef would flip whatever they're cooking. I can't really explain it well, but all I know is, it's really hard work.
Great teaching moments I'm sure for Benjamin and Samantha, wheat seed planting, growing, harvesting, milling, baking, filling tummies!
Without wheat we wouldn't have Wheaties cereal. Can you imagine not having sports stars staring at you during your childhood during breakfast? I can't.
After watching all these none sense videos this generation uploads on TH-cam, watching this video felt so good. Thank you 🙏🏻
❤ I showed my husband this video and he said, “Is there anything she doesn’t do?” Really, you are amazing and an inspiration❣️
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I do believe your channel should be renamed “ The Little Red Hen”!
You are so industrious Laura!
She has a lot of workers doing this for her bro
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So interesting and I agree with what people 120 years ago had to go through to get a loaf of bread. This was a bit of a history lesson. People whine and complain today really about nothing compared to our ancestors. My father was born in 1913 in the country survival was hauling water and planting and harvesting all crops by hand in the Texas hill country. Respect for the hard work. Thanks Laura for a really great video.
This is the best bread making video i have ever seen. I am so happy for you that your hard work paid off. This video gives a new level of appreciation for wheat. Our grandparents and great grand parents at ate wheat that was milled manually. Thank so so much for sharing.
I’m getting “The Little Red Hen” vibes here!!! I’m thoroughly impressed and amazed! Appreciation for our farmers indeed!!
I am now inspired to grow wheat! Can I just say, I love how you always take the time to credit Paul and Bethany on things they do in the process of your projects. ❤
I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this video. I have the same mill and purchase my wheat berries from Azure. When you harvested the wheat for the wreath making I wondered then if planting wheat would work for us for crafting purposes. NOW I’m curious to see if we could grow for actual use. We don’t have a lot of space but your harvest was lovely! Thank you for this video, it made my day!
To use it with yeast, you can do a double grinding. And use a sieve for removing the bigger particles. Might also require extra kneading if you got the patience. But that should turn out fine.
Laura is such a hard worker, you are my inspiration
That was RAD! This video deserves some kind of Emmy or similar. So beautiful. So educational. So inspirational. This was wonderful in how I feel more connected to the past and the farmers. How did the idea to make this video come about? And thank you for including the clean up process too. It looks like hard work. It looks satisfying. It looks doable in a SHTF scenario. Just amazing! Bravo 👏
Very hard working lady. Amazing. We used to do threshing with thorny bushes under side of a wooden platform pulled in a circle by bulls over full length of wheat plants on a hardened surface while on person turning over the thresh and then using natural wind to blow the thresh to separate wheat and chaff. It was a very hard work working in the sun in the hot summers of India.
I an gluten intolerant and tend to avoid wheat, but i am glued watching this.
Decades ago, i was grinding a lot of wheat to feed my large family. I found that double grindung produced a better product, was easier on the motor, and preserved to stone. I started on coarse grain, and then reground that on the more fine setting. I really enjoyed this vlog!
That's a really great tip!
That's probably the trick to get fluffier baked goods
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You cannot do that with a lot of the current electric mills out on the market currently. I know for sure that you cannot do that with the Nutrimill Classic model and the WonderMill.
Watching you do this process brought to life the story of Ruth for me and how hard of a worker she really was. Thanks for all you do.
Thrashing can be done easily by putting all the wheat stock on a ground in a thick layer and drive over with your ATV or side by side. That is how it is done by small farmers in many Asian countries.
This was so great. I didn't watch it initially, but finally got some time and now realize how much I appreciate my gg-grandparents and how they lived, growing wheat and other crops in NE.
My mother used to wash the wheat and then dry in the sun before grinding. The remaining chaff will float and you can remove. Such a pleasure to go through the whole process ❤
That's interesting.
My grandma so the same technique God bless her
how long did she wash and dry it for? i want to make sure it doesnt get moldy:-)
@@BerrySkaii just 2 to 3times like washing rice before cooking and immediately put it in the sun to dry on some old bedsheet. Only the amount of wheat you want to grind, wash that much. Do it on sunny day with small amount for first time.❣️
@@BerrySkaii drying takes one to two days depending how strong sun light is. You can check with your hand and stroke the wheat once or twice
This is the best video EVER!!! I have moved from my country home because I’m 76 and my family wanted me closer to them. This video just helped me finalize my decision to go back since we have not closed on the property. I luv seeing ANY seed
or plant grow. I hope the younger generations are watching you grow and produce life lessons they will
Need in the furure. My grandparents did this the way you do and I believe it’s important that my
Grandchildren know as well. Thank you from
The bottom
Of my heart for doing this video.
Ps. I want a Paul
And Bethany!!!
Good for you!! We do this daily with our 5 kids. What a joy.
You reminded me of my childhood in 00s India. I come from a farming family in Punjab, we used to harvest and store wheat in huge metal drums and took it to a flour mill every month or so to get fresh flour. Our family stopped farming years ago so I had completely forgotten that part of my childhood. Thank you.
Enjoy watching the process! It may have taken them longer,but they appreciated it more and took more pride in it😊
If you are storing some of your wheat, its best to leave it in berry form until ready for use. It holds onto more nutrients and stays fresher! Beautiful harvest!!