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Grains are among the easiest crops to grow and can be a new adventure for the home gardener. Many need little processing after harvest, and they bring a different kind of beauty to the garden Grains are easy to grow and maintain, decorative and useful. Most varieties of modern grains, especially oats and barley, have been developed for machine processing. Our varieties are chosen for the small grower without specialized milling equipment. Learn to grow the grain for your bread in your own backyard. Or try your hand at designing and growing a complete small-scale diet in your backyard, using our book One Circle.

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BGE-1323

Small Scale Grain Raising

Gene Logsdon, 2nd Edition, 2009, 308 pp.
This update of a 1977 classic is exactly what the subtitle says--"An organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers." Fully revised and expanded with current information, this is still the most complete guide available to the gardener who wants to plant what the author calls a "pancake patch." Small-Scale Grain Raising is like having a very experienced friend at your elbow explaining when to plant, how to plan rotations, pests, storage, and how to hand-harvest, thresh, hull, and even cook a wide variety of grains. There are chapters on corn, wheat, sorghum, oats, dry beans, rye, barley, buckwheat, millet, rice, triticale, spelt, wild rice and cover crops (Amaranth and quinoa are not included). This new revised edition is the fruit of a lifetime's experience from "one of the founding curmudgeons of modern garden farming and sustainable agriculture."

$29.95

BEA-0033

Booklet 33: Grow Your Own Grains

Carol Cox, 2008, 28 pp
At last! Basic grain raising and harvesting on a small scale, appropriate for a home garden. How to grow and use barley, oats, cereal rye, triticale, wheat, amaranth, corn, millet, quinoa, rice, sorghum and teff. Carol Cox is the Garden Manager at our Ecology Action Research Mini-Farm in Willits, and has been growing all kinds of grains for many years. A working paper.

$7.50

BEA-0370

One Circle

How to Grow a Complete Diet in Less Than 1000 Square Feet
By: Dave Duhon & Cindy Gebhard
1984, 200 pp , Language: English

Using the techniques described in How To Grow More Vegetables..., this book will help you explore your nutritional needs and then design and produce a complete vegetarian diet in as little as 700 square feet. Loaded with charts, annotated bibliographies, step-by-step instructions, and even cut-out slide rules for the calculations. You’re invited to participate in this bold, new cutting-edge of Biointensive development and research. You will need to read How To Grow ... first.

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BGE-1324

Homegrown Whole Grains

Homegrown Whole Grains
Sara Pitzer, 2009, 168 pp.
Growing whole grains is simpler and more rewarding than most people imagine. With only 1000 square feet of land, you can grow 50 pounds of wheat, which can then be baked into 50 loaves of fresh bread. Complete growing, harvesting, threshing, grinding, and storing instructions. Also recipes for cooking with the most popular whole grains: wheat, corn, barley, millet, oats, rice, rye, spelt, and quinoa.

$14.95

BFO-1765

Flour Power

Marleeta Basey, 2004, 288 pp.
From the cover: Qucik, Easy, and Inexpensive The only complete guide available on the subject of home milling. If you are looking for a whole-grain health bonanza with just a few minutes of kitchen time, you've picked the right book! Modern flour mills and bread machines turn breadmaking into a task no more complicated, nor expensive, than grinding beans and brewing breakfast coffee. Flour Power tells you how to compare, locate and buy one of the dozens of different mills on the market, how to buy the "right" wheat and how to make delicious, light whole meal loaves - every time. Guaranteed Whole-Grain Health Why bother grinding flour at home? Flour Power explains why virtually all commercial flours (even "whole wheat") have lost fiber, vitamins, mineral, enzymes and phytochemicals during processing and storage. A diet rich in whole grains has been linked to vastly improved health, but in many cases researchers aren't absolutely certain which components in the whole grain are actually doing the good work. The only safe way to get all the health benefits is to eat all the grain. Flour Power also tells you how to: -make a gourmet cook euphoric -replace "bad" carbs with "good" carbs -add whole-grain health to low-carb diets -roll oats at home -ensure food self-sufficiency in case of natural disasters -get whole grains in the diets of gluten sufferers -grind flour manually, if you prefer -grind wheat, corn, rye, beans, spelt, quinoa, even peanut butter -prepare healthful (and delicious) quick breads, cakes, cookies, muffins, cornbread and -much more from home-milled flours

$24.95

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