Home-grown Whole Grains
One
of my goals for this growing season is to experiment with grains.
As I mentioned in my series on small-scale
grain-growing, I'd
eventually like to be growing most or all of the grains that we humans
and our chickens eat. But my goal for the first year is far less
ambitious --- I just want to experiment with a half dozen types of
grain to find out which ones like our climate and fit our lifestyle.
I got Sara Pitzer's Homegrown
Whole Grains on
interlibrary loan to round out the information I've been
compiling. The book is very handy because it provides a lot of
specifics I've been unable to find elsewhere about planting dates and
growing zones. That said, quite a bit of the information in this
week's lunchtime series has come from previous books and websites I've
read on the topic, so don't expect to pick up Homegrown
Whole Grains and
find it all. Still, the book has lots of pretty illustrations and
is a quick read, so I recommend it.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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