Small Scale Grain Growing for Homestead and Community Gardens
Discover how to grow grains on a home garden scale. Our speaker will take us through a growing season step by step, sharing his personal experience with growing these wonderfully diverse and versatile staple crops. Emphasis is at a personal use level and topics include selection, planting, cultivation, harvest and processing to culminate in culinary uses. Wheat, barley, oats, rice, sorghum, triticale, millet, and amaranth are considered. Scott Hucker lives in Ortonville, Michigan with his family on their small homestead farm and is the "Grains Department" for Great Lakes Staple Seeds.