growing grain
Posted: September 29, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »This year we grew some small grains: wheat, oats and barley. After planting in early spring, we pretty much neglected them. There were times that I wondered if there was anything growing in the fields other than grass, but then the seeds stalks finally started emerging. Despite my worries that some calamity would be sure to ruin the crop, we managed to harvest almost all of it. (Those of you who have read the Little House books will remember that any time Pa came whistling in from the fields announcing that the wheat was perfectly ready to cut, a hailstorm or a plague of locusts or a flock of starlings was certain to immediately follow.) We’ve experimented with various methods of threshing the grain to separate out the seed, but basically it’s just a lot of slow, if pleasant, work. A few nights ago night we cooked up some of our wheatberries, tossed them with some kale and tomatoes, sprinkled with parmesan and toasted walnuts…yum!
