08/25/2026
What am I doing with all my extra time?
Remember that wheat we grew right there in Bulloch County Georgia? Ancient Sonoran wheat, the oldest surviving heritage wheat variety in North America?
After Farmer Mack grew it, middle Mack harvested it and #1 Farm helper thrashed it (more or less) and we moved it with us to Texas…it still needed some clean up.
Lots of trial and error lead to not much progress and a variety of bins of partially cleaned up piles of wheat berries just taking up space. There they sat for awhile, until today!
4.5 hours later…. all wheat has been cleaned, hand picked through. Some of it ground up in my mill and some stored in mason jars to be ground later.
Couldn’t help thinking as I spent about 4 times longer on this project than I expected today, that this poor wheat likely would have sat for years before we ever got to it.
Excited to created some extra yummy stuff with this hard earned wheat flour!
Now excuse me while I go thank every miller in the country and the men who keep those mills running! If we had to rely on hand cleaned wheat, I’m certain we would starve or never be able to afford it!
