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Reasons and Resources for Growing Your Own Grains at Home

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Resources
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The world’s smallest patch of Sonora wheat Reasons to grow grain Why grow some of your own grain? I can think of a bunch of reasons: You can plant unusual varieties The large amount of biomass for your compost pile Forage for livestock Easy to grow and maintain Part of a rotational strategy for maintaining healthy, disease free soil Know that your grain is not contaminated with pesticides How to grow grain  Growing grain is p...

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Remember to Label Those Jars!

Mr. Homegrown
Food, Food Preservation
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“Label, label, label!” This was one of the most important lessons I learned in my Master Food Preserver training. You’ll note, from the jars above, that I’m not very good about this. When were those jars canned and what’s in them? I have no idea. They were probably the result of some late night canning frenzy two years ago. At the time I probably thought to myself, “I’ll label them in the morning.”...

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Someone Please Buy Me a KoMo Grain Mill

Mr. Homegrown
Bread, Food
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KoMo Medium Mill So out of the hundreds of vendors I visited at the Natural Foods Expo I’m literally down to only one that I found interesting: KoMo grain mills. Being an avid fan of baking German style breads such as Volkornbrot, I almost fainted with excitement when I stepped up to the booth of Pleasant Hill Grain, who imports KoMo mills to the US. KoMo’s products are designed by a German/Austrian team, Peter Koidl and Wolfgang Moc...

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Help Us Choose a Grain Mill

Mr. Homegrown
Bread, Food, Tools, Wheat
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At the Huasna Valley wheat farm I blogged about yesterday, they have a grain mill made by a company called All Grain Mills out of Utah. What the farmer liked about this company is that the mills they make have stone wheels instead of steel. Steel burrs can heat up and destroy the enzymes in the wheat. Furthermore these All Grain mills are considerably less expensive than other ones I’ve seen. I’d like to know if any of you readers h...

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Looking for the Union Label

Mr. Homegrown
Domesticus
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We’ve got a bad case of Ohrwurm, a German expression translated as “earworm” and used to describe a song stuck in your head. Our earworm came after a search for union made socks and underwear on the internets recalled a highly catchy ad jingle from the roller disco era, “Look for the Union Label” (youngsters can watch it on youtube here). We looked for the union label and we were surprised to find it via a company c...

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Bean Fest, Episode 8: Really Good Lentil and Whole Grain Soup

Mrs. Homegrown
Bean Fest, Food, Recipes
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...11;finely chopped or sliced into thin rounds.2 carrots, chopped2 bay leaves1/2 t. of fresh or dry thyme1 head of garlic, all the cloves peeled1 28 oz. can of tomatoes/or your own canned tomatoesSea saltOlive oil Notes on the grains: Use whatever whole grains you have on hand, from wheat berries to quinoa, one type or a blend, as long as it measures 2/3 cup. I’ve used all spelt, all barley, even rice, I think– it all tastes the sam...

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Spent Grain Bread–We Brew Econo

Mr. Homegrown
Miscellaneous
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...tub on the right, and next week we’ll know if it’s worth drinking or if it’s compost. We’ll do a taste test and report back on the whole process when we crack the first bottle. What we do know was a success is using the spent grains, the leftover malted barley and crystal malt that we used in the beer recipe, which are strained out before the beer is put away to ferment, as a flavoring for our wild yeast bread (recipe and instructions for making...

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Making Beer in Plain Language

Mr. Homegrown
Beer, Fermentation, Food
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...sparging, malting, all the while specific gravities are measured and hopsing schedules followed. We’ve made beer using kits from a home brew shop and found the process relatively simple, but the thought of making an all grain batch (extracting our own fermentable sugars from the grain rather than using the extracted syrup in a kit) seemed intimidating. Thankfully comrades Ben, Scott and Eddie showed us how to do an all grain batch a few wee...

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Is Modern Wheat Killing Us?

Mr. Homegrown
Bread, Food, Wheat
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Wheat field, Froid, Montana, 1941. (Library of Congress image) It’s been a bad decade for grains. Between publicity about grain allergies and fads such as the Atkins and paleo diets, a lot of people are shunning wheat, rye and barley. At a panel discussion this weekend sponsored by Common Grains I heard Monica Spiller of the Whole Grain Connection and Glenn Roberts of Anson Mills make some compelling arguments that will forever c...

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