Our Wheat Patch with Cornfield Flowers
Our small cornfield in what we used to call "docks and nettles" now has our traditional variety of spring sown wheat with a lovely mixture of cornfield flowers.
Cornflowers (blue), Corn Marigolds (yellow) and Corn Chamomile (white)
You may think the wheat is barley as the ears have a beard of long awns just like present-day barley.
The wheat will probably be ripe in early September - much later than the combine harvesters will have set-to work on the intensive farm fields. Our harvest wil be nearer the traditional time for the church harvest festivals.
Here are the traditional steps from harvest to bread making. How many will we achieve?
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- Stooking (for-short term storing)
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- Threshing (to get the wheat grain fron thhe wheat heads)
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- Storing the straw (for use with sheep)
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- Winnowing (to sepatare the grain from the dust)
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- Milling (to make the flour)
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- Baking the bread (only water and yeast will be added to the flour)
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- Breaking bread with your friends
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