HOW MUCH RICE CAN YOU GROW IN 1 SQUARE FOOT - Growing and Harvesting Rice in Your Backyard Garden

Ever wondered what it would take to grow your own rice in your backyard garden? Well I did just that. Come see how much rice I was able to grow in just 1 square foot of garden space and would I ever grow it again.

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[leon]

Hi, just trying to dispel a misconception. Rice doesn't need to be flooded to grow well. It just needs moist soil like any other grass or plant. The flooding of paddy fields is to kill out other weeds and grass that can't tolerate floods like rice can. Ive grown rice in normal potting soil just fine.

[TearDrop]

A friend of ours now living in USA, his mom is still in El Salvador. He said when separating the grain from the chaff she (they/el Salvadorans) would call the wind with a certain tune they whistle.
Now, I am a devout Christian at first I had trouble doing this. But if me or hubby are outdoors in the heat I’ll do the whistle and simultaneously ask Jesus for a breeze.🙏🏻✝️
Yes it has worked thus far. 😊

[Radicalist-Manifesto]

500 sq ft of grow area planted with native fat grained rice yield 70 - 80 kilos of rice for me (Kerala India), which is enough for my 3 adult person family for whole year.

[HelenaBoutel]

I saw a video of someone using two chopsticks to drag the string from the plant between the two sticks, just holding the chopsticks in the same way you would hold them to use them for eating. Then mash the seeds/the rice with a stone or in a similar grinder, but without cooking them to take off the husk. And it worked well

[hungthai]

This is the way farmers in the early days did to collect harvested rice by hand. Rice stalks were chopped off the rice plants and organized orderly in to mount on a dry, higher land. Some farmers chose to move their crops to their own yards if possible. Others might leave it where it is until the next step because moving the whole crops home is not a possible option for them, so they have to harvest at a time when no rain could interfere and damage the new crops.
Now is the time to separate the seed from the stem. Farmers would pick up a bunch of cut-off rice plants by hand or with 2-wood sticks tied together at 1 end with a rope. This contraption allows them to have a bigger bunch. They would beat this rice onto a wooden slat which was spaced apart to allow the breakaway rice seeds to drop under the platform and collected in bags. This rice then would be spread out to dry to remove moisture and firm up for processing. The stow-away may be removed by cattle stomping or become cattle feeds.
Processing rice uses a large wooden mortar and 1 or 2-long pestles for 1 or 2 operators, sometimes a giant wooden hammer-shaped is used. First, you have to knock off the rind and blow it away with wind, natural or man-made. Brown rice is obtained after this step. To get white rice, the hard work continues with the same primitive tools. Thank god that with today's technology, ALMOST all farmers do not have to do these tasks anymore. EXCEPT FOR SOME, THE HARD WORK

[mayhemschild]

I didn’t hear you mention where you got your grains of rice or the type of rice you planted. I think it’s great you grew it!

[sansomspressurecleaningpoo]

My suggestion is do it outside pressing the two cutting boards. Then throw everything in a bowl. Then blow the husk off. Rule of thumb. Work smarter not harder. You can also take a rolling pin. To do it the same way. You’ll see your results much faster.

[joeGuizan]

Nice❤.
I saw another one, but the measurement was not given.😅
Glad you did it here👍.
(Wish to add a few snails or tiny fish if I try it😅😅😅)
We expose to the sun for several hours before dehusking.🎉

[ShadowFangASMR]

There is a video on Youtube called " seperating the husk from the grain " its waaay faster that way 😄

[SudhirN-jcdx]

You can try pearl millet, finger millets. Equally laborious to grow.

[johnliberty]

These are the experiments I like the best, how many calories can you get from one square foot. This year I am doing yams (not sweet potatoes) and cassava. Next year might be rice. I want to know which of these calorie crops are the most efficient.

[antheredhen]

I think I'm going to try this. We haven't had a lot of luck growing in SW Florida. So far only hot peppers and a few tomatoes. Asparagus is growing well haven't harvested any yet. I think being new we haven't gotten the timing and proper dirt down yet.. Then Ian dropped a tornado on our yard and tore up our garden. Litteraly flipped the raised bed upside down. I want to do like you've done in the back yard with the beds.
Ya maybe potatoes is a better bet. To feed us for a year that's a lot of space.

[josiesteed]

i wanted to grow my own rice bc I eat it lat least once a day but who tries says they wouldnt grow the rice again :( i wish it was a more rewarding process

[Youtube_sensors_closeyourAcct]

Experiment:
I would Try using a rock tumbler (rotating tumble over a vibrating tumbler, first) with a few rocks. Plug it in and let the the machine do the work. This may do one to two Lbs at a time.

*If, this works, a bigger scale machine would be a concrete mixer ( available in a small size). This would require a lid or plug of sorts to keep the content (rice) in. I use a 5gl bucket I stuff as a plug. …I tumble OTHER stuff Not rice. ….not yet lol. Thank you for sharing your input

[ennbee]

Y'all🤦‍♂ Another Yankism being used in the U of the K.

[oddish]

I remember when my grand parents used a large wooden mortar and pestel to remove the hull of the rice then a large round woven flat basket to toss the rice on the air to sort the rice from the hull. Filipinos have different names for every stage of rice. Palay, Bigas, and Kanin.

[bibinthampy]

Florida should start rice farming like asian countries so they have continuous supply of rice in US, in off season they can also grown fishes in rice paddy.

[ItachiOkasan]

In Thailand we take a big bunch and bang it a concrete floor

[joselugo]

I have seen other people grow Brown Rice in the no hole buckets. When finished growing and dry, they lay it out on a blanket and beat it with a stick that has two sections that are held together with a little chain. Then they put it in a large flat basket and flip it up in the air to blow off the husks.

[Radicalist-Manifesto]

For small quantity at home, roasting is very energy and time intensive. You can try making boiled rice instead. Boil the paddy grains for 15 minutes. Coo and dry it. Then put it in blender/mixer and whip in 2 second pulses and the husk comes off which can be blown aaway. Its much easier that way.