For gardeners who want to know where their food comes from, growing and harvesting wheat by hand is an earth-friendly solution. Wheat can be used in a variety of products, including bread, rolls, cookies and pastries. But can you harvest enough wheat to make your own homemade baked goods? Wheat Harvesting at Home Harvesting wheat from your home garden can seem like a daunting task. After all, farmers use a large piece of equipment called a combine to bring this crop in from the fields. But for 10,000 years, humans have harvested wheat using a sickle to cut the plants and a flail to thresh the grain. Don’t worry if you don’t have access to these ancient tools. A sharp pair of scissors, large kitchen knife or hedge shears can be used to cut wheat. You can make a homemade flail or simply bang bundles of wheat against the inside […]
The post Harvesting Wheat In The Home Garden appeared first on Gardening Know How.
