tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36001455496102894482024-03-12T18:04:54.140-07:00Los Angeles Bread BakersHello, and welcome to the Los Angeles Bread Bakers blog! On this blog, we will be chronicling our journey growing wheat in Southern California, discussing the meaning of this endeavor, and explaining both our process and the history behind this important experiment. Look forward to information on California landrace wheat, photographs from planting and—eventually—harvesting, and figures and facts about the project.Mr. Homegrownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11903804104014983893noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-66349740123855160882014-07-22T15:45:00.003-07:002014-07-22T22:38:08.359-07:00Tehachapi Weighs InThe grain grown on Weiser Family Farms this spring has been an inspiration.<br />
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In the photograph below, Roman Rye, graces a planting just across the lane from some handsome Red Fife hard red wheat.<br />
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This was a bold experiment on the Weisers' part, and the sizeable crop is good to see, thriving on fields usually devoted to vegetables. With only modest rainfall this season.<br />
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On July 21, 2014, a field of Barley was partially harvested, but the 63-year old Allis Chalmers combine needed some attention. Nate Siemens scavenged an 8-foot long winnowing drive shaft from an even older combine, and replaced the shaft in the field. <br />
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The combine came back to life and, under Nate's guidance, completed the harvest:<br />
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It's all in a day's harvest, getting the old equipment in operation to make a success of small scale grain farming ...<br />
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working toward the establishment of a real Southern California Grain Hub to make locally grown, varietal grain available to our mills so our bakers can once again turn out products made from truly fresh flour.<br />
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<br />Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-39619414162686535562014-07-17T12:58:00.000-07:002014-07-17T12:58:44.384-07:00More Harvest Preview<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glenn wheat nearing harvest.</td></tr>
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One of the varieties to be harvested soon in the Lompoc area is Glenn, a Hard Spring Red Wheat developed by North Dakota State University in 1997, with parentage from two varieties created there. <br />
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By 2005, extensive field tests confirm a high yield, higher protein, greater resistance to shattering, and improved disease resistance when compared to existing varieties. It also rates superior in milling and baking properties.<br />
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North Dakota leads the nation in the spring wheat harvest, and more than a million acres planted in Glenn is a major reason why.<br />
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Glenn has substantial awns. As the plant enters boot stage, the awns can be seen first, emerging just in front of the important flag leaf. Then the immature kernels begin to show.<br />
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A side note on the risks of product development – in the category of “you can’t please everyone.” One goal of modern wheat breeding is that the ripe wheat does not shatter (fall to the ground) before harvest. Farmers report that Glenn is so good at holding onto its kernels, that threshing is more difficult, often leaving many ‘whitecaps.’ <br />
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A Minnesota wheat farmer wrote: “I agree excellent quality wheat but doesn't thrash worth a #####. [Good yield, but] why give away 3 to 8 % of it as dockage?”<br />
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<span style="color: black;">In anticipation of a wheat harvest in our area, currently scheduled for July 26th, this is a brief description of the varieties we expect to see. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Red Fife is a hard red wheat that was North America's preferred bread wheat in the 19th century. <b><br /></b></span></div>
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Usually it has only three short awns at the tip of the head.<br />
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<br />Red Fife went out of production in the Great Depression, but seed preservationists kept the variety alive and it has made something of a comeback. <br />
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A true land race, its qualities have contributed to many varieties since 1842 when Canadian farmer, David Fife, planted the first seeds to arrive in the western hemisphere on his farm near Peterborough. <br />
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It was named “red” because of the rich color of the kernels. But growers find it is sometimes quite light colored, as it adapts to a mild weather terroir.<br />
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Red Fife is thought to have originated in Turkey and was grown in Ukraine's prolific farmlands, probably favored by Mennonite farmers. The story is that it found its way to Canada when a friend of David Fife saw some good-looking wheat being off-loaded in Glasgow, from a ship just arrived from Gdansk. Some versions of the tale insist he gathered up all he could in a winter "bonnet" he was wearing, mailed it off to his friend, and the rest is bread baking history.</div>
It is wonderful to have Red Fife growing in our area. Over the years it has proven to have inherent diversity, a good adaptation to a range of soils, moisture levels, and temperature. It has a reputation for robust flavor and fine baking qualities. <br />
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A lovely field of Soft White Sonora Wheat has been harvested in Delano, CA, just south of Fresno.<br />
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About eight and a half acres were planted by Amos Bergman and Nate Siemens in early February. Assisting with the harvest is Nate's brother, Justin. <br />
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The wheat field is surrounded by cherry and almond orchards, <br />
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Amos nursed a classic, 60-year-old, Allis Chalmers combine back to life. And the team set it to work on the very ripe Sonora.<br />
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The wheat was planted the first week in February. It was irrigated once, on Valentine's Day, two weeks later.<br />
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It is an impressive demonstration of this Sonora's drought resistance.<br />
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Most surprising, the stems of these plants, and particularly their seeds heads, are deep purple in color.<br />
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And yet another thing. Many of the taller, green seed heads have an odd shape, with a broader base of kernels, becoming more regular on the top half. Breeders experienced in Vavilov growing say it often has uneven seed heads. <br />
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Vavilov is considered challenging to thresh. Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-62014337394391086942014-05-11T11:57:00.001-07:002014-05-12T15:22:08.522-07:00Sonora Progress in Santa Barbara CountyHere is some impressive progress in Curtis Davenport's Sonora fields, which he planted in mid February.<br />
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Here is a closer view of the developing seed heads.<br />
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Rains have been encouraging, but additional irrigation has been necessary.Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-10390982030201461012014-04-17T16:17:00.000-07:002014-04-22T17:49:23.227-07:00Wheat Growth StagesFollowing up on Community garden grains, the seven varieties of wheat in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Emerson-Avenue-Community-Garden/155192944545677" target="_blank">Emerson Avenue Community Garden</a> are in different growth stages.<br />
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The Black Einkorn and Russian Timopheevi show early leaf and root development.<br />
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The soft white Sonora has developed some plant height as the distance between leaf nodes increases. The inflorescence, or fruiting body, is just beginning its travels up the elongating pseudo stem. The Emmer is approaching boot stage, with the seed head nearing the flag leaf, at the top of the pseudo stem.<br />
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Much of the Vavilov is in boot stage, or showing a swollen boot. <br />
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The Brazilian Lavras is perhaps the most remarkable. Several show fully emerged seed heads, with very long awns.<br />
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The India Jammu is currently in the lead, showing most of the heads in anthesis, or blossoming stage. This means only final seed development and ripening remain before harvest.<br />
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On the left is India Jammu, developed by farmers in northern India. Grist & Toll contributed the seed for this planting. <br />
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On the right is soft white Sonora, grown from seed contributed by Kenter Canyon Farms. <br />
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You can see the relative pace of development in these different varieties. At this stage, the India Jammu, in the background, is taller. The Sonora shows a shorter, more dense growth.<br />
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Plots just to the north include varieties from Russia and Brazil, along with Emmer and an ancient Black Einkorn.<br />
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Timopheevi, also known as Zanduri, is widely grown in Russia's western Georgia region. A hard red tetraploid wheat, first domesticated in southern Turkey. Like its ancestors, Timopheevi is a hulled wheat. Bluebird Grain Farms provided organic seed for the Emmer plot which is developing well and showing colorful pseudo stems.<br />
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Brazilian Lavras is an amber wheat, with a reputation for growing to more than six feet. <br />
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Vavilov, a hard red winter wheat dates from the 1920s and is named for Nikolai Vavilov, likely to be the man who developed it, and certainly one of the world's foremost agronomists and plant breeders. <br />
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During a time of enormous need for his country, Vavilov sent out 140 expeditions from Russia to 40 countries, assembling a collection of more than 200,000 species. He was a leader in restoring Russia's ability to feed its people. Ironically, he was caught up in Stalinist purges and died of starvation in the gulag. Vavilov wheat is considered rare and is being grown and evaluated by seed companies and universities.<br />
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Black Einkorn, considered the oldest cultivated wheat, is not widely grown today. <br />
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It has a reputation for doing well on poor soils and is known for its flat black seed heads. In the Emerson garden it has yet to develop much height, but if it sets heads, we expect those ancient berries will be a challenge to unhusk.<br />
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You can visit the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Emerson-Avenue-Community-Garden/155192944545677" target="_blank">garden</a> and see the wheat plots on school days from 4pm to sunset and on weekends from 9am to sunset. The wheat demonstration plots are related to Dana Morgan's LA School
Wheat Project which gives students the opportunity to plant, grow, and
harvest wheat, right in their school gardens. For more info about the
LA School Wheat Project contact: danahmorgan@gmail.com<br />
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<span id="goog_600999168"></span><span id="goog_600999169"></span>Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-79282258185086287452014-04-06T22:00:00.000-07:002014-04-12T09:49:50.859-07:00Backyard WheatMark Stambler sent pictures of grain plots thriving in his back yard.<br />
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And some interesting progress in our front yard, across town. Some of the Sonora, planted on New Year's day, is
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The kernels are in four rows, each of which has ten or twelve berries. The plants which lodged (tipped over) in the February downpour have recovered and are now standing on their own. <br />
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Three different small test plots of India-Jammu are showing off. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Shorter
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">India Jammu three weeks ago, approaching boot stage.</td></tr>
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boot stage, just beginning to emerge. Where the two varieties were
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A plot of Kamut, planted in January, is setting heads which are remarkable for having extremely long awns. Some of the awns, or beards, are significantly longer than the seed heads. This variety seems vigorous and is almost as tall as the Sonora. The wide, lush foliage does not suggest this is a drought tolerant strain.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Test plots of Red Fife Kamut Emmer (Durum in foreground)</td></tr>
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A test plot of Emmer (Farro) is three feet tall, but not yet in boot stage. And recently planted Durum only a few inches high, with three or four leaves so far.<br />
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Two very small test plots of soft white spring wheat are showing heads. Louise was released by Washington State University in 2005. It has a quite unique head shape. Surprise was developed in the 1870s by Cyrus Pringle of Charlotte Vermont. In 1919 USDA records show more than 60,000 acres of Surprise were planted in the U.S. In this test plot, both varieties are quite short, but that may be the result of shallow soil conditions.<br />
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The seeds did come around and the late February rains helped a lot.<br />
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Curtis' Sonora White is on its way, putting down roots in Santa Barbara county.<br />
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Should we care about where and how our food is grown? <br />
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Here is what French entomologist Jean Henri Fabre had to say about that: <br />
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"History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the King's bastard children, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. That is the way of human folly."<br />
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I'm skeptical that our small planting of India-Jammu will add much to our technical understanding of this interesting land race variety or its appropriateness for Southern California.<br />
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But it is a lovely sight ...<br />
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And a patch of Sonora White illustrates the risks of raising big seed heads almost four feet above the ground.<br />
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Makes me quietly proud that our yard can demonstrate challenges that are usually only experienced by real farmers.<br />
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I tied up those rascals against a stake, in hope they'll regain their footings and once against stand on their own.<br />
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It is of interest that the Sonora seed heads have between 42 and 48 kernels developing. About twice the number in the India Jammu which kept standing.<br />
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A big head seems a good thing, until it tips you over.Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-68406007703312291722014-03-02T22:38:00.000-08:002014-03-02T22:38:08.553-08:00MOMO in Grand ParkMichael O'Malley's mobile wood-fired bread oven, found its way between rain squalls to a parking spot in Los Angeles' Grand Park today. <br />
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Folks brought homemade loaves, of all kinds and shapes, to bake right on the fire brick hearth where wood fires had burned to coals the night before. The classic arched roof oven is mounted on a trailer for mobility. It was designed and built by Michael.<br />
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The Community Bread Bakes are a great chance to see and smell wonderful bread rise and come to life. <br />
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Many of the breadmakers had worked with Michael and Nan Kohler, the day before, learning the basics of making natural wild yeast raised breads, with flour contributed by Nan's grain milling company, Grist & Toll.<br />
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Michael intends to have Free Community Bakes in various neighborhoods on a monthly basis.<br />
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MOMO "Michael O'Malley's Oven" is also made available by Michael for shared baking events at Nan Kohler's GRIST & TOLL flour mill, 900 South Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, where the north 110 right at the northern end of the 110.<br />
Grist & Toll: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/gristandtoll" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/gristandtoll</a><br />
Los Angeles Bread Bakers: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Bread-Bakers/" target="_blank">www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Bread-Bakers/</a> <br />
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<![endif]-->To test grain seed to see whether it will grow, fold a few kernels -- "wheat berries" -- in a damp paper towel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Place
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Pictured are Emmer (Farro) seeds after three days in a folded paper towel. To a city-dweller's eyes, there is some variability in their initial enthusiasm, but 100% have gotten a start.</div>
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This is a sprout of Khorasan (Triticum turanicum) an ancient (Tetraploid) variety of wheat. Sometimes sold under the trademark name, Kamut, the kernel on the paper towel had a growth shoot of nearly two inches in four days. Seed planted in the ground at a depth of two inches had simultaneously reached the surface in those same four days.</div>
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Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-90142058634034644832014-02-28T15:46:00.001-08:002014-02-28T15:46:11.069-08:00Rainy DazeGood news. Some more wheat in the ground, and just in time for a deep drink of rainwater. Word was that Nate Siemens intended to broadcast some seed in fields near Lompoc. Your correspondent arrived before the morning fog had lifted. <br />
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But the morning sun and Nate both soon appeared and this is what the field looked like, once the mists were gone. <br />
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Nate set out to broadcast Glenn over a five acre field.<br />
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And that was followed by Red Fife over another two acres, all just in time for our very welcome end-of-February rains.<br />
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Local sources say that turning the soil over in that area has uncovered whale bones, and rocks show layers typical of oceanic sedimentary design. <br />
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Our wheat is going to come of age in an area that was once ocean front. <br />
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Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-10549942452382738412014-01-11T21:37:00.000-08:002014-01-11T21:37:00.439-08:00Grain at your Front DoorOne of our goals is to grow “local”
wheat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s another way go local:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><b>Plant a Plot of Good Grain!</b></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><i><b> </b></i> Right in your back yard. Or your front yard or side yards.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> In p</span>ots and window boxes.
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<b>Prepare the soil </b>as you would
for garden crops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plant wheat seeds one
and one-half inches deep, about two inches apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Experts recommend about 36 seeds per square
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couple of weeks, and, unlike that old fashioned lawn, you don’t have to mow it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wheat will be ready to harvest in 4 to 6
months, but in the meantime, it will put on a nice show.</div>
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You’ll be helping maintain grain
diversity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can grow very rare
varieties of wheat, find out how they do in our climate, taste ancient grains
like Emmer or Kamut as a cereal, bowl of grain salad, or a tasty flatbread. You can supply kernels to a seed exchange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(One 3’
by 3’ plot, can grow 2500 seeds.)</div>
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<b>Where to get seed?</b></div>
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Bob’s Red Mill grains test as
lively and viable, and they include Spelt, Kamut, and grains like Amaranth
& Quinoa.</div>
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Heirloom & ancient wheat
seed can be purchased from several suppliers:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Salt Spring Farm <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://saltspringseeds.com/">http://saltspringseeds.com/</a></div>
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Blue Bird Farm<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://bluebirdgrainfarms.com/">http://bluebirdgrainfarms.com</a>/</div>
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Community Grains<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://comunitygrains.com/">http://comunitygrains.com/</a></div>
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Sustainable Seed Company<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://sustainableseedco.com/wheat/">http://sustainableseedco.com/wheat/</a></div>
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<b>Rare seed</b> is sold in packets of 300
seeds, enough for ten square feet, or a few large pots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might be the first in your neighborhood
to harvest Russian Vavilov, Alaskan Spelt, Black Einkorn, or Brazilian Amber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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For more advise on home-grown
wheat cultivation:</div>
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<a href="http://www.rootsimple.com/2012/02/reasons-and-resources-for-growing-your-own-grains-at-home/">http://www.rootsimple.com/2012/02/reasons-and-resources-for-growing-your-own-grains-at-home/</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/grains-growing-guide">http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/grains-growing-guide</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/growing-wheat-zmaz10fmzraw.aspx">http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/growing-wheat-zmaz10fmzraw.aspx</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/bake_your_lawn/">http://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/bake_your_lawn/</a></div>
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So join this grass roots
revolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grow a patch of wheat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seed savers and seed banks will thank
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your 300 seeds could yield two or three
pounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Working together we can find
larger plots where we can grow that into three hundred pounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That half ounce of rare wheat seed has been
multiplied by almost ten thousand, providing enough for a farmer to plant three
acres, and that could yield three tons of that rare wheat seed which cost you,
the initiating grower, $3.50. </div>
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efforts to re-establish local grain-growing are riding on the coat-tails of
specialty heirloom veggies and micro-greens, which have had considerable
success in finding niche markets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
a recent internet article on <i>slate.com</i> claims grains and flour pose different
challenges, making it unlikely that small scale grain farmers can make a
go of it financially. The writer,
Alastair Bland, argues that locally grown flour does not taste enough better than
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Ah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us beg to
differ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that locally grown and
milled grains -- heritage, modern, landrace and ancient grains -- bring us a far better taste experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Varieties of flavors, sweetness, sourness,
nuttiness, freshness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bread that is a complete
experience, leaving your palate satisfied, balanced, with complex lingering
flavors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is bread that doesn’t need
apologies or a drink to get rid of a dry aftertaste.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is bread that is refreshing and
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But it’s not just taste that is improved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wheat from local sources can be – and this is
a big change – it can be <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nourishing,
with substantial protein, a natural range of nutritional qualities, with no
chemical additives, herbicides or pesticides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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and resisting mold and desiccation, particularly in its naturally fermented
iterations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Freshly milled flour has
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But there’s more than just taste … and nutrition … and
superior baking qualities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our small
scale grain farmers are true stewards of the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They care for the soil, the need for crop
rotation, protection of the aquifers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Local means a smaller carbon footprint, lower CO2 emissions, less
shipping costs, less waste of non-sustainable resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Less need for middleman handlers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In their concern for their fields and their care to
plant the right grain for their climate and terroir, they are partnering with grain
growers around the world whose intention is to feed their local communities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They want to make their land productive and
diverse rather than give up and buy industrial flour that is of unknown provenance and
full of additives.
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But wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s
still another reason why small scale grain growing must prosper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is essential to the restoration of diversity
in a crop that has fed the world for ten thousand years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Small scale grain growing will help develop
drought tolerant varieties, and grain that will endure climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Industrial-scale monoculture of wheat
produces inferior flour, is damaging to the land, leads to the loss of thousands
of varieties of modern, heirloom, and ancient grains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And most important, shows we have learned
little or nothing from the horrors of monocrop failures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-17497035666979055592014-01-01T11:16:00.000-08:002014-01-01T11:16:23.268-08:00Goals of Regional Wheat Growing<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The
goals of the Southern California Wheat Enterprise are not hard to summarize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like most such endeavors, the vision is to improve
the grains and flour available to our homes and neighborhoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that added value is in three important areas:</div>
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Grown
in our region <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>under sustainable farming practices<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…. free of chemicals & contaminants<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… available direct from growers to mills
& bakers</div>
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Flour
that is freshly milled … nutritious … good flavored … good for baking</div>
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for less than what these remarkable grains have to offer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Improving the quality of grain and flour is a
return to ways that were common not that long ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The enterprise believes that our families and
neighbors, our bakers and chefs, all can once again have a range of nutritional
wheat and flour products that are grown, milled, baked, and then enjoyed by
members of our communities.</span>Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-3121459512443161352013-12-31T12:01:00.001-08:002013-12-31T13:52:49.313-08:00Farm to Table -- Grower Meets Consumer<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My family bought an orchard and created a small subsistence
farm in the Tehachapi Mountains in 1921, growing vegetables and fruits and
selling eggs, chickens, sheep and pigs to people in the area and I was raised
there -- and bought my first car with money I raised selling pickling cucumbers
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In northern Kern County, Nate Siemens hopes to grow both
modern and landrace wheat, following in the grain-growing footsteps of several
generations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He talks about what it
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The farmers tell us, when you grow quality food and deliver directly
to the customers, it is no longer the food <i>industry</i> or the produce<i> business</i>, it
is more like the society of food … the family of food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
Tom Shepherd, growing Red Fife and Glenn in the
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quality wheat is being grown in our region as it was many years ago.
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<span style="color: black;">And our families and our bakers will be able once again to enjoy
fresh flour with the nutrition, flavor, and baking quality that can only come
from wheat that is locally grown, locally milled, and locally baked. </span><br />
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in LABB – and every bread baker in our region – can help spread the word that
real wheat can once again be available in our communities – and this will
include ancient and heritage grains – all sustainably grown on local farms and
stone-ground fresh by neighborhood mills.</span></div>
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person who has planted, cared for, harvested crops and brought them to town for
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk to her or him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not the middleman, the go-between,
the intermediary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, you are talking to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alex Weiser</td></tr>
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about the trials and surprises of farming, see pictures of his kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And his goats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span><br />
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finally – and maybe most important – you’ll enjoy a special level of
trust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-19612494015055553872013-12-17T10:37:00.001-08:002013-12-17T10:37:23.823-08:00Is Seed Planting the First Step?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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When does the growing season start?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In places that have a real winter, it may be
when you sit in front of the fire and open that envelope of seed packages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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Beautiful pictures of bountiful
harvests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe you pour some hot cider,
get out the graph paper and draw up a plan for where the turnips and beets will
grow, and where the tomato plants will get their footing.</div>
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To our wheat growers, planting the seed is not the
beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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On his fields in Santa
Barbara County, one of our wheat growers, Tom Shepherd, talks about what goes on before seed time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his words, seed planting is not the
beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the end of the first
phase.</div>
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Good stewards of our lands make it clear that they are not
only growing plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are growing
the soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Improving and nurturing
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And wheat – both as an edible grain,
and as a cover crop for rotation & <br />
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soil amendment -- has long been an important
part of sustainable farming. </div>
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Curtis Davenport talks about soil conditions on the land near Santa Ynez where he intends to plant 25 acres of Sonora wheat.</div>
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Back on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his</i></b> prepared fields Tom is planting
Red Fife, putting 50-pound sacks of seed into the hopper of his seeder … with
the help of Max Iniquez, the field foreman.<br />
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Our growers know that successful farming is not just about the plants. Or what shows up above
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Earth asks us to take an oath – an earth oath, which is
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Good stewards of the land are once again growing local grain for local
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Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-10295581985833078242013-12-13T10:22:00.000-08:002013-12-17T19:21:24.201-08:00Our Growing Season Begins<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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The great news is that six farmers
have signed on to grow wheat for our Southern California market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Their fields are located near Tehachapi,
Delano, Santa Ynez, and Lompoc, California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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soils.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll get to know all our growers in
future blogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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Distinct individuals, they
have two important things in common: a commitment to sustainable farming practices
and a history of growing for local community markets, face-to-face with
customers who appreciate knowing the individuals who are growing their food.</div>
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It is now official. Three of
our growers have planted wheat, with intentions to grow varieties like Glenn, Sonora,
and Red Fife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Though it has been quite
cold and seed availability has delayed planting by a month, it is exciting that
our season has begun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Viability tests
show that all our varieties are lively and ready to go, with one hundred
percent of tested seeds sprouting in quick time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> First, seminal roots emerge in the first 36 hours.</span></div>
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Two days later, the roots, covered with tiny hairs, have extended downward into the soil and the seed has sent its first shoot, called the
coleoptile sheath, up toward the surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Planting times for our other growers will be weather and temperature dependent
and none of these underground mysteries will be visible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll just have to wait patiently for those
first sprouts to stretch<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>up through that protective sheath, form a crown just below the surface and send the first leaves above the
soil, into the air. Like magic.</div>
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Stay tuned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The season for local wheat, available to local
mills, and put in the hands of local bakers – that season has just begun.<br />
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wheat growers in our Southern California region.</b>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Meanwhile, we can look into cultivating
some grain right in our back yards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or
front yards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bake Your Lawn is the motto
of a movement that started in the United Kingdom, to grow wheat in the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>You can do as much or as little as
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Usually wheat is planted in late fall or early spring, but this crop developed in July and August while we were away and a neighbor was giving them occasional watering. It happened fast.</b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Our small acreage had a yield of about one hundred seed heads, some quite open, but most hanging onto their kernels. </b><br />
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Looks like about 150g of fresh wheat berries, right out of our front yard. </div>
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Enough to enrich a country loaf of sourdough. </div>
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Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-57641571438263509892013-05-27T20:44:00.002-07:002013-05-27T20:44:12.609-07:00Backyard WheatOur control crop of Glenn, planted in backyard pots, is finally mature.<br />
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A couple of dozen plants were harvested today. Threshing and winnowing by hand yielded more than ten kernels per seed head, for a total of three teaspoons of very fresh wheat berries. Our kernels are a little smaller than the original Glenn seed. Today's reaping is about 20% of our backyard crop.<br />
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Having computed the area of the wheat pots to be about one-ten-thousandth of an acre, this represents the equivalent of more than 21 bushels per acre. It does help to not have hungry ground squirrels.<br />
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Final accounting at Maggie's Farm finds our last remaining variety, the spelt, now devoured.<br />
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<br />Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-86613425852659549802013-05-18T15:30:00.000-07:002013-05-18T15:30:09.127-07:00Harvest is DoneThe wheat harvest has been completed. Unfortunately, it is not us humans who did the harvesting.<br />
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Essentially all of the wheat is gone. <br />
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Whole plots were flattened
earlier and have not recovered. Areas have been trampelled, and much has
been devoured right off the stalks.<br />
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The ground squirrels have taken much of the crop.<br />
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On May 15th, one of them seemed unaware of a visitor, came quite close and demonstrated how he could reach up, pull a wheat plant down, nibble on the seed head and then move on to the next plant.<br />
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A small clump of Red Fife remains, but it is more than two weeks from maturity when it can be harvested for wheat. Unfortunately, it appears the squirrels like wheat berries even before they reach the soft dough stage. So their harvest timing is significantly in advance of ours. <br />
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Portions of our two spelt plots are still standing, but their seed heads are only at the blossom stage and will certainly be devoured as their kernels just start to develop, well before it is time for human harvest.<br />
Though Maggie's Farm has not been a successful locale for wheat, it is home to some charming critters<br />
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and some very colorful ones, like this Western Bluebird.<br />
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Paul Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04815952023134625186noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3600145549610289448.post-9843372184276801172013-05-05T21:47:00.001-07:002013-05-05T21:59:55.494-07:00Slim PickensAs we approach our expected harvest, it appears we are not the only ones who find wheat an attractive crop.<br />
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Our first day's planting of Sonora and Red Fife have been reduced to a small green patch in the middle of the fields.<br />
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The entire plot of Glenn from that first day is gone. Although matted down some weeks ago, it seemed to be recovering. However, now it has stopped growing and appears to have been grazed. One of the traps set against the ground squirrels is in the foreground.<br />
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Our test plot of heirloom and newer varieties has been grazed to the
ground. Of the 12 varieties planted, 6 did develop well, and, on April
6th, Clear White and India Jammu seed heads were in blossom. Now all (except
two Poole variety plants) seem to have been devoured. <br />
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The northern portion of the 2nd day's planting of Glenn has also been grazed, leaving only an area in the middle of the plot. The 2nd day's Sonora, on the left, has about half a plot still standing, with seed heads in the late milk stage. About a third of the Oberkulmer and Maverick Spelt remains and has seed heads emerging. About a month until maturity. But our plants seem to be disappearing faster than they can grow.<br />
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