new video of home scale threshing inventions

Two threshing inventions plus a demo of winnowing with a fan

video of threshing inventions

 

Thanks.

I'm hoping to crank out a couple more this weekend. I have footage of a bee expert talking about how solving colony collapse disorder is quite easy. Footage of a rather spectacular farmer's market and footage of eating camas.

 

There was and there is.

The natives would harvest heaps of it in such a way to encourage more to grow the following year. But they don't really do that anymore.

 

I dunno.

I spent a fair slice of my youth driving combine - I can tell you about that. Before I was allowed to drive combine, I drove wheat truck - I can tell you about that. I saw pesticides dumped in with the wheat and I know that now that is replaced with diatomaceous earth - and now you have a link where I talk about that. I can tell you about ways to store grain. I can tell you about ways to raise grain for animals to self harvest. I can tell you about the bonfills-fukuoka tecnique where you get more grains back per grain planted. I can talk about how grain is a subsidized commodity.

But .... personally, I have been on a quest to reduce the amount of grain I consume. It turns out that people were never designed to eat grain, so I have been experimenting with eating little to no grain and having good results.

Nothing about how much grain to grow. Not only does it vary from person to person, but yield will vary dramatically also.

Frankly, if I were to attempt to grow grain on a small scale, I would attempt to emulate the mighty, the glorious, the amazing Sepp Holzer. He has a perennial grain that grows 8.5 feet tall.