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April 21, 2020 9:44 AM Subscribe
Nicolas Supiot makes his own bread, grows his own wheat and teaches other people how and why to do the same.
Impressive! Replicable, not so much.
posted by grumpybear69 at 11:30 AM on April 21, 2020
posted by grumpybear69 at 11:30 AM on April 21, 2020
Good stuff, and much appreciated, but a little light on the growing and harvesting aspect. According to what I find, a ten by ten foot plot can produce up to ninety cups of flour. Short version here. This fellow does a soil (October) to bread bake (June) in seventeen minutes using nothing more exotic than a grain grinder. Definitely replicable.
(Postview - aaand - it may be illegal. IANYL)
posted by BWA at 11:49 AM on April 21, 2020
(Postview - aaand - it may be illegal. IANYL)
posted by BWA at 11:49 AM on April 21, 2020
Her figure of 90 cups in a 10' x 10' plot seems unlikely. A half a year's worth? Using a figure from the top of a google search of 65 bushels per acre gives me (I think) a yield of about 22 cups per 100 square feet.
Here is an article from a MOFGA newsletter about growing wheat and other small grains on a homestead. I think their yields are in line with that.
posted by Botanizer at 2:24 PM on April 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
Here is an article from a MOFGA newsletter about growing wheat and other small grains on a homestead. I think their yields are in line with that.
posted by Botanizer at 2:24 PM on April 21, 2020 [2 favorites]
Ha ha ha ha no!!!! 90 cups in a 10'x10'??
Last year I was on a Little House on the Prairie kick so I grew spring wheat in my 10'x15' allotment at the community garden. I also planted wheat in our local food forest (with permission). I harvested it (with hedge clippers), tied them in bushels and let them dry in the garage for two weeks, threshed the wheat by banging pillowcases full of wheat heads against the garage walls, winnowed it by waterfalling it from one pan to another in front of a big fan, and then milled it in my friends Vitamix. It's for real whole wheat flour and it's awesome. I got about 4 4-cup jars worth once done. 16 cups total!!
Now, I'm not a farmer and I'm sure that there are many ways to be more efficient with planting but I sincerely do not believe that what I did was THAT wimpy compared to what I could have done. There's only so much space in an allotment and only so much room for wheat to grow.
(I am not doing the wheat experiment again this year because I estimate that between my husband and myself we put about 100 hours into it - mostly winnowing and threshing. We really don't need sixteen cups of wheat that badly.)
posted by Gray Duck at 4:00 PM on April 21, 2020 [7 favorites]
Last year I was on a Little House on the Prairie kick so I grew spring wheat in my 10'x15' allotment at the community garden. I also planted wheat in our local food forest (with permission). I harvested it (with hedge clippers), tied them in bushels and let them dry in the garage for two weeks, threshed the wheat by banging pillowcases full of wheat heads against the garage walls, winnowed it by waterfalling it from one pan to another in front of a big fan, and then milled it in my friends Vitamix. It's for real whole wheat flour and it's awesome. I got about 4 4-cup jars worth once done. 16 cups total!!
Now, I'm not a farmer and I'm sure that there are many ways to be more efficient with planting but I sincerely do not believe that what I did was THAT wimpy compared to what I could have done. There's only so much space in an allotment and only so much room for wheat to grow.
(I am not doing the wheat experiment again this year because I estimate that between my husband and myself we put about 100 hours into it - mostly winnowing and threshing. We really don't need sixteen cups of wheat that badly.)
posted by Gray Duck at 4:00 PM on April 21, 2020 [7 favorites]
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