Growing and Harvesting Wheat 🌾 on a Small Scale & Making Bread! 🍞

Our first ever wheat harvest! We learned how to grow, harvest, thresh, and winnow wheat on a small scale! Was it worth it? Will we grow it again? Find out in the video :)

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Chapters
Growing Wheat 00:00
Wheat Harvest 01:18
Threshing and Winnowing 01:50
How to Build an Inexpensive Wheat Thresher 03:35
Wheat Yield 06:25
Grinding Flour 07:47
Making Bread 08:48
Final Thoughts 11:20
Outtakes 12:54

#selfsufficiency #wheatharvest

[KBNoyes]

😂 Your bread “failure” is far better than my very best effort bread making experience.

[ABlueDahlia]

You're so hard on yourself, both loaves looked great! :) So fun to see the whole process. Thanks guys!

[misty]

If you were living in the day and age where people were always food self sufficient, the appearance of it wouldn't matter. It looked delicious and the boys liked it. A++

[annabodhi]

Here in Canada I learned that 1 bushel of wheat makes 90 loaves of bread. There was a price fixing scandal here with Loblaws and bread prices have never recovered. It was a reminder to folks that those multi-nationals are not our friends.

Great video, and especially loved the ending. Cam is such a great sport. Thanks so much for all of your hard work, and for sharing it with us. You are all appreciated.

[bethanynelson]

What a great learning experience. It's crazy how much space it would actually take to grow a year supply of wheat for a family. Thanks for showing us your process. Your bread looks great!

[jasminenash]

That looked like a fun experience and you learned a lot from it! I think it’s pretty cool to see people make a meal from scratch with everything grown from their property.

[gillgallon]

Oh i so love the fact that you just dont show all your sucessful things you also show when you fail, Keep doing what you are doing because its awesome, nd i love to watch your video`s and also Watch Cam being goofy lol Thank you for sharing, Amazing as always

[nates]

I have threshed similar to you, but with some minor improvements….the rod that has the flail attached is long enough that it can pass through a hole in the bottom of the bucket. I reinforced the hole in the bucket with a block of wood. There is a matching hole on the lid of the bucket - just barely bigger in diameter than the rod so no grains can escape. The holes both on the top and bottom of the bucket means that when the drill spins, the flail is perfectly centered in the bucket and you don’t have to worry about it whacking the sides of the bucket a whole bunch.

A variable speed leaf blower is also pretty efficient for winnowing, once you get the hang of it.

[heiditrzebiatowski]

Thanks for those outtakes! They made me laugh all night long or all day. 😂🤣😂

[LittleKi]

I'm on Team Hard White for just this reason. I think one of the reasons a lot of people associated whole wheat with stodgy baked goods is the heaviness of the hard reds, especially after it has sat in a bag at the store. I serve people bake goods from fresh-ground hard white all the time and they don't even know they are eating whole grains. It's not like cake like white flour, just delicious! Love the ingenuity with the drill and bucket....haven't see that before.

[iartistdotme]

Loved the ending with a smile! LOL I jumped up to stop your son from putting his finger in the fan - so glad he was OK. I didn't really help but it was automatic after having kids, grands and greats. The bread did look yummy and I could imagine it toasted and dipped in oil and herbs. Made my mouth water. The threshing tool he made looks great!

[catracampolieto]

The bread looked great to me. Love how your husband and children make you laugh. We all need a good laugh once in a while.❤

[sgrvtl]

Wonderful video! loved each step and those taste testers were quite handsome 🥰❗ and the very an adorable baby Riggs is~! Beautiful Family!💚💗💙

[rickmaudlin]

God, thank you for this family! They nice and fun. Amen.

[joannak]

I clicked on the video right away and then life happened so I'm just now finishing it 😂 Your bread looked yummy to me 🤤😋 You are really doing so wonderful with all that you have accomplished so far. I look forward to the day when you show us your berries and orchard. At least what you harvest...big or small.
Ok...now I am going to go back and watch again ❤️

[susanfreeman]

I was so excited to see how the bread was going to turn out. Using a brand new type of grain is always a bit of a learning curve, I think. The crumb looked decent. To me the hard red wheat always has a bit more invasive flavor than the hard white flour. I so admire your experiment!

[DansonforJoy]

Your account of growing wheat was so interesting! My husband talks about growing wheat someday - I don’t know if we ever will, but seeing your process is helpful! 😊

[stacieprimeau]

Thank you so much for including Cam's outtakes at the end😂❤

[EverettSmithLoveisAll]

It was worth watching to the end for those outtakes!! 😂The bread looked delicious!

[haleymacklin]

Deeply appreciate Cam's brain fart moments at the end! 😆