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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Growing Wheat to Bake Bread

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Curious about baking bread truly from scratch? Listen in and Kevin and Jacques recount the tale of a truly from scratch loaf of sourdough wheat bread. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We'll set your ovens to 375 my friends because today we're talking about not only growing

0:19.4

wheat but baking bread we made our first loaf.

0:24.0

I grew my own bread, I'll just say that and I don't know if we've talked about this

0:27.4

on the podcast before but Jock's 10-12 loaves deep in his bread journey at this point, right?

0:33.6

Maybe like 20.

0:35.0

He's at 20 now.

0:36.0

If you count two loaves at the same time.

0:38.0

I'll count that, I'll count that sure, I'll give him the credit.

0:40.7

So I'm one loaf deep and let's just put it out there.

0:45.9

He said verbatim, why don't you tell him what you told me?

0:49.2

I said this is the best plain sourdough loaf that I've had.

0:53.8

I'll say that distinction.

0:55.1

Because unflavered with herbs and stuff.

0:57.9

Sometimes, one of my philosophies has always been, if you have to add flavors, you did it wrong.

1:05.7

You baked incorrectly.

1:06.7

There should be enough flavor in the natural plant.

1:10.4

Here's the deal, he had the advantage of having the natural epic terrar because it was

1:15.9

homegrown wheat.

1:16.9

You can't beat that.

1:17.9

We grew spring wheat, it was called bulls OG, B-O-L-L-E-S-O-G from Johnny's.

1:25.3

I actually lost about half of it to a mold issue, but then we did a threshing and a winnowing.

1:31.6

Threshing would be beating the wheat berries out of the actual stocks of wheat.

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