Harvesting Wheat
Yesterday the boys went with Jeromy and Grandpa Dan to some fields about 1/2 mile away from our home. In these fields they found wheat. Grandpa told the boys that we could use this wheat to make bread. The boys thought that sounded like a great idea. So they brought home some wheat and harvested it. They enjoyed it so much that we went back today to do it again.
First you pick the wheat. Here Noelle and La La are picking it.
Next you stomp, hit, smash or generally break the wheat until the grains are separated from the chaff.
The most time consuming step is separating the wheat kernals from the excess chaff. We poured the grains and chaff from one bag to another in front of a fan. The fan blew away the chaff while the heavier grains dropped into the bag. We did this several times. We then poured the grains into a bowl and picked out any remaining casings by hand.
We poured the grains of wheat into my wheat grinder and then made the flour into bread.
David counted down the last 5 minutes . . . he was HUNGRY!
We ate the bread warm with homemade blackberry jam (from blackberries we picked this summer) and store bought butter.
posted by Carrie @ 8:33 PM
5 Comments:
What fun memories you are making for your children.
that is so cool. so cool.
seriously, this is such a lesson for the history books. I don't think there are too many parents, including me that would take the time to gather the wheat. Although wiley did pick some long weeds for me not too long ago and asked me to make bread with it. He thought it was wheat. I wouldn't have known the first thing to do had it really been wheat!! ha ha leave it to you and jeromy to get the job done. Well done.
Amazing. Honestly this is the real deal! I would love to try and do this!
WOW! That is impressive. It's like the story of the Little Red Hen, except everybody helped you! What an amazing little family. Shane and I have so much to live up to.
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