Homegrown Whole Grains: Grow, Harvest, and Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn and More

by Sara Pitzer

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Learn to grow, harvest, store, grind, and cook nine popular whole grains. Sara Pitzer provides complete instructions for growing your own wheat, corn, barley, millet, oats, rice, rye, spelt, and quinoa, as well as recipes for using these grains in tasty dishes. Cultivating these crops is surprisingly easy, and it takes less space than you might imagine -- with just 1,000 square feet of growing space in your backyard, you can grow enough wheat to supply ingredients for 50 loaves of delicious show more fresh bread. show less

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Clear, well-organized, and with great illustrations showing you how to harvest, clean, and store your grain. With an excellent appendix full of resources for buying seed, storage containers, mills, and whole grains, and with recommended websites, books, and movies. The most exciting gardening book I've read in years.
This excellent, easy-to-read and reference book goes over the steps to yard preparation for planting, selecting sites for growing, discusses the steps from planting to harvesting and even cooking with a variety of grains. I have a home in a suburb and wanted to research grain growing in my back yard. This book is a wonderful source. Not only do I have a more realistic idea of what to grow and how much, I also have some wonderful recipes for the grains that I can still get from farmer's markets. The resources section alone would be worth getting this book.

For the home farmer or anyone wanting to expand their grain consumption beyond just white flour and rice, this is the book.
Good quick overview of a lot of different kinds of grains but is almost more valuable for its reference section than anything else.

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Sara Pitzer has learned and written about grains in Pennsylvania's Amish country, California, the American Southeast, Thailand, and Peru. She is the author of more than a dozen cookbooks and travel guides and now lives in North Carolina.

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Home & Garden, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Food & Cooking
DDC/MDS
633.1Applied Science & TechnologyAgricultureField and plantation cropsGrains
LCC
SB189 .P55AgricultureHorticulture. Plant propagation. Plant breedingPlant cultureField crops
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