Planting Your Own Wheat Crops to Make Your Own Bread

They say history repeats itself and I've found that to be true most of time, as in the topic of this article. It was thousands of years ago that humans started cultivating food crops, a profession that still provides the basis for all of the grain-based foods in the world. One thing has changed recently though, many farmers themselves go to the grocery store to by grains and wheat and corn and finished grain products. It just makes life easier. Leave the milling of the grains to the big companies with the big machines rather than a rusty old wind mill.

I do not think it's a change that will last very long though. There is a lot of turmoil in the world, partly caused by the readily accessible foods in stores across the globe. It's no longer difficult to get food so we tend to take it for granted. We buy more than we need and then we throw half of it out, thinking , "I'll just buy more tomorrow". Well, for those of you who think it may be a good idea to know how to produce your own food in the future, this article is for you.

Wheat Bread

If you own an acre of land you can easily plant some crops to supplement your food costs. For a small piece of land, you don't need any heavy equipment like tractors and the like, just some simple hardware and bunch of elbow grease. You will need a shovel, a garden hoe, and water. Farming land was common place a hundred years ago, but it is something that most of the baby boomers, generation x, and generation y never learned.

First, you have turn the soil in the area where you want to plant seeds, do this in the spring. Plant rows of seeds about 10 centimeters apart. Push the seeds about finger deep (one seed per hole) and cover it with soil. Then water the whole area and wait. The water some more and wait some more. A few months go by and before you know it, you'll have your first crop and with your first crop comes your first harvest.

With a scythe or a sickle, cut down armfuls of grain stalk, each armful is roughly one bundle. The bundle is tied and left outside for about a week to dry. Once dry, the grains are taken to the mill to be ground. Now, with the flour that you've made at the mill you can bake bread in your oven. Since we're going back to basics on this one we'll bake our bread in a wood or coal stove. Find yourself a wood or coal stove bread recipe (they're a little bit different than conventional oven recipes).

After all is said and done you will have a new appreciation for how life was back in the pioneering days. You may no longer take a loaf of bread for granted after learning how much work it is to make from scratch.

Planting Your Own Wheat Crops to Make Your Own Bread

By Henry

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