Bobby of Okfuskee farm and some friends got the Rye harvested on
Saturday and we cleaned it in a couple of hours that evening. We have
800lb that Bobby will keep up to half for his own sales and I'll have
the rest to mill for some tasty Dark Rye Bread. A big thanks also to my neighbors, Jim and Katherine, for helping me deliver a bunch of buckets to the farm and do a little tuning on the seed cleaner. Murray of Cohen farm
got the Arapahoe wheat harvested last week. I am having trouble
cleaning it because it had some Barley in the field and this variety of
Barley has to be de-hulled. The barley and wheat can't be separated by
size with the seed cleaner so I'm going to have to try to de-hull the
barley or gravity separate it. I have blended barley in with my wheat
breads before and it is very tasty so the blend will be good to use if I
can get it cleaned. The Spelt on Cohen farm was harvested yesterday
and a collage is attached. I didn't stay for the full harvest so i
don't know the final amount, but it looks like it was very productive.
The Spelt kernels are big and golden. The Spelt needs to be de-hulled
too, and so I'm working on cobbling together a method to do that. Real
equipment can be purchased to do all this, but it is in the $5,000 range
so really needs a more regional plan. Proving out the different pieces
of this will allow this to happen in the future. |

