Farmer Ed

Winnowing wheat... traded cantaloupes to a local farmer for wheat out of field. You have to pour it from bucket to bucket about 4 times for the box fan to blow away the chaff.

Milling the wheat... We built a milling table with plans that are free on Popular Mechanics website. Its good exercise and you appreciate what folks use to go thru to get their wheat ground.

 

This is a expensive mill but a good one...  http://www.pleasanthillgrain.com/country_living_mill.aspx

Here is what its all about... in order for you to get the bread to rise, you need to add a vital gluten to the flour. The bread is light and delicious http://www.thenewhomemaker.com/wholewheatbread1

White flour bought in the store is missing bran, middlings, wheat germ and wheat germ oil...