How Farming Wheat Works

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Taking homemade bread to the next level. If you want to grow your wheat at home, this is the episode for you. Sara Mader discusses the different types of wheat, when to plant it, and when to harvest. Enter the Grow and Grill Giveaway here. You may enter starting Monday, June 12th, and enter until Tuesday, June 20th. You may only enter 1 time. A winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 21st. Grow and Grill Giveaway by Epic Gardening and Palouse Brand Farm 1 Beige Original 6-in-1 Birdies Metal Raised Garden Bed 2 Epic 6 Cell Seed Starting Trays A bundle of Botanical interests seeds Yeti cooler Coleman grill Five varieties of lentils + plus some additional legumes from Palouse Brand Connect With Sara Mader: Sara Mader is Co-Founder and CEO of Palouse Brand, a fifth-generation farm operation producing grains, dry beans, and pulses in southeast Washington State. Sara quickly saw a need for a direct to consumer, farm-to-table, business model that bridged a necessary consumer conversation gap for farm-to-table products. Palouse Brand was created out of this need and conversation, and since has been able to reach consumers across the United States with fresh family farmed non-GMO grains and legumes. Sara also wanted to run her company differently and sought to create an alternative, flexible work environment for women in our rural communities, that provides time and space for both family and work. This platform has transpired into a predominantly female led company, with women running both the behind the scenes work as well as the packaging line. Palouse Brand Lentils Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok Website 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	You guys have all heard about my escapades in growing wheat in my backyard.
0:16.2	First time, I would call it a minor success, growing enough wheat to bake a loaf of sourdough
0:22.7	bread.
0:23.7	Second time, I would call it a major success, Sarah.
0:26.5	I grew enough to bake a potato focaccia because I like sliced potatoes and put it on top
0:31.2	of the focaccia.
0:32.7	But obviously, Sarah made her back on the show of poloos brand.
0:36.9	You guys grow a ton of wheat far more than the average home gardener can do.
0:40.4	So, I guess, why don't we start out with types?
0:42.8	You know, you hear winter, you hear spring.
0:46.0	What does that really mean for a wheat grower?
0:48.2	Sure.
0:49.2	So, winter wheat will be seeded in the fall.
0:52.0	Sometimes you can actually spring plants, some spring reeds in the fall, but that's
0:56.7	a whole different beast that we won't get into today.
1:00.8	Winter wheat will hold over the winter, so it's more hearty.
1:04.2	It's going to pop out of the ground before the snow comes.
1:07.6	You can get the work done in your fields, put it right back in after a legume rotation
1:14.2	on all of that nitrogen sitting right there in the soil.
1:18.0	So, we plant our winter wheat typically in September and October.
1:23.0	We harvest and go immediately to planting.
1:25.5	So it's a very intense cycle on our farm between August and September into September.
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