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[Rob Wagner]

Wheat cooked like rice, then cooled, is a very typical ingredient in a type of salad popular on farms in this part of the world. I've had it at a number of other people's farms. Typically mixed with sour apples, walnuts, dried cranberries, celery, and other crunchy vegetables.

Some people mix it with yoghurt for breakfast.

I dunno if it matters or not, but I would use soft wheat for that purpose.

Acorns not a grain, but we've had a few other folks suggest those as a food item.

[12540dumont]

I have an old C.S. Bell # 2 grinder.  Today I passed corn through it to make polenta/grits.  It came out beautifully.  However to make corn meal was considerably harder work.  Today we were at a kitchen store, to buy a new peeler and my husband spotted some coffee grinders on clearance for $11.  We purchased a Hamilton Beach Hands Free 15 cup coffee grinder.  The top holds about a cup of grain.  (They had a much bigger Krupps for about $50).  I came home and ground 2 cups of grits into cornmeal.  I got excited and put my flour corn through the Bell and rushed it inside.  I ground one cup after another until I had 3 cups of fine corn flour!  Okay, then the doors started slamming, I ground 2 cups of Farro, and 2 cups of oats.  I haven't tried the wheat yet, or the milo, but I think it will work.


All for $11.  Now,  this machine won't be big enough for my CSA, but it certainly would take care of my weekly bread baking.  I do 3 loaves and freeze 2.  We go at least a day without bread, and have biscuits or muffins on those day/s.

So I've already met one of the hurdles of making small scale grain worth it. 

My spouse is going to go back and buy a second one.  He feels that for $11, I should put one in the cupboard, so that when I burn this one up, I'll have a spare.

[Rob Wagner]

When the coffee grinder wears out, or you outgrow it, you might want to consider manual grinders; they're usually adjustable for different grinds, and they'll last longer.

Hawos makes--or used to make--a combination mill (I spaced out and started typing that in German) that makes both flour and flakes. If the Euro crashes I should buy one--or better yet import a whole palette of them and sell them.

A big grinder would be nice. There is one on the market for around $400 that is supposed to be good quality. I think that it's possible to motorize the wheel, too, if it ever comes to that.

[The future]

The small scale homemade thresher from a drill is slick.  Might try that with chia seeds.

[mikro2nd]

How do I get the attached image to show up inside the post on the forum system?

If you click on "Additional Options" after the message body,

Thanks, Rob. So - if I understood - attached images can't be shown inline, but externally hosted images (picasa/photobucket/wherever) can... that explains my confusion.

[Rob Wagner]

You understood correctly. There might be a way to do it, but I haven't tried it. Obviously the attached message resides somewhere, and there might be a direct link to it. Lemme try.

[Rob Wagner]

Ta da:

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[img]http://tatermaterseeds.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27.0;attach=5;image[/img]

[Rob Wagner]

A minor problem is that you don't know the path to the attachment until you attach it, BUT what you could do is post the message, then MODIFY it to add the link to the attachment.

At your service!

[12540dumont]

For a really well written paper on Cereal Grains,
browse for "Small Scale Production of Cereal Grains in Maine" by Mark Fulford.

www.heartofmaine.org

And darn, every time I find something cool, don't you know it's East Coast?

Also on the E.C.  NOFA...about the most the most helpful farming organization I have ever come across.  I buy BPA free canning lids from them.