{communty sharecropping} A Homemade Wheat Thresher

We have been growing wheat for three or four years in our community sharecropping plots.   Wheat is not hard to grow and not all that hard to harvest although there are some pitfalls.  The hard part is removing the teeny wheat berries from the inedible straw and glumes that surround them, which is called threshing. …

{COMMUNITY SHARECROPPING} Home Grown Wheat

Our rabbi, Jonathan Rubenstein of Temple Sinai in Saratoga Springs, runs a non-profit bakery out of the temple.  Most Friday mornings he is there, baking challah and babka, plus his kick-ass granola.  When we sold our house and garden in Argyle, New York three years ago and were moaning about where we would go to garden, Jonathan’s…