On a Michiana Homestead

I set about testing the dehulling plates for our Grainmaker No 99 flour mill using some barley from my 2017 grain trials. This is a Model No 99 from Grainmaker of Montana. For grain grinding, it comes with a pair of steel milling plates.  Some of our experiments are being doing with the dehulling kit which are plates with a rubber layer that are used in place of the grinding plates.  Sometimes I use one grinding and one rubber plate (just don't let them touch). The mill looks like this: Pictured below are the Grainmaker steel plates (on the left) used to grind grains for...

Recording germination test results and thinking of spring - while we couldn't yet plant the sprouts they didn't go to waste - the birds appreciated the treat, and yes, it does say -7 windchill!