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Local Grain Harvested

posted Jun 28, 2011 4:52 AM by Box Turtle   [ updated Jun 28, 2011 6:33 AM ]
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.