# Small-Scale Grain Growing Video **URL:** \ **Category:** Books, Videos, Websites, Courses\ **Tags:** grains, staples, gardening-advice, links, videos\ **Created:** [December 17, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/small-scale-grain-growing-video/249 "2022-12-17T20:48:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Greenstorm](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/greenstorm/32/36_2.png) [@Greenstorm](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Greenstorm)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 8:48pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/small-scale-grain-growing-video/249/1 "2022-12-17T20:48:42Z")
I’ve been looking up info on growing grains lately. This is a video from the food at Great Lakes Staple Seeds about very low tech ways to grow a household amount of grain. Seems very accessible. Has information on all aspects including threshing. [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/5/531ba2e656840b7e130ad525b1b0e18053124623.jpeg "Small Scale Grain Growing for Homestead and Community Gardens") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgUOQ9rFRiU) ---
**Author:** ![Greenstorm](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/greenstorm/32/36_2.png) [@Greenstorm](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Greenstorm)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/small-scale-grain-growing-video/249/2 "2022-12-17T20:50:59Z")
**Megan G** They are good folks. The wife, Eleanor, runs a facebook group called “Growing Grains on a Small Scale” for those that are interested in that kind of thing. I have several of their heritage varieties because they are just across the Lake Michigan pond from me. **Greenie/Erin** I ordered a bunch this year and am totally in love with the sumire mochi barley – both because it is so so beautiful and because glutinous barley seems like a dream. I love the glutinous rice texture but it requires so much processing, if I can make basically mochi barley balls I’ll just use them as the staple starch for everything. OMG. Hopefully my first taste will live up to expectations. MG **Megan G** Yes! That would be so fun to do! My first grain growing experience was last year with spring and everything I grew was so short and the grain heads were forming though! But then, then the critters decided to have my grain for breakfast and I was empty handed. My fall planted grains are greening up now. It looks like I’ll have success with sangaste rye and various wheat varieties. I started planting small grains here but I’m due for night temperatures in the mid 20s F, so I hope it doesn’t knock out any young sprouts. We’ll see, I have more to plant out yet. **Greenie/Erin** One of the biggest pressures towards grain-growing this year is that I’m moving kind of late in the season into somewhere they’ll overwinter, so I can do fall-planted ones. Very interested to see how it turns out. **Megan G** That will be to your benefit then. My fall grains have done far better than my spring varieties. I always wanted to try Salt Spring Seeds’ grain seeds, but they are of course a Canadian company and the nation borderlines constrict their ability to ship to me. They were the first site I stumbled across a few years ago that gave me the information I needed about cross pollination in grains. At first, I wanted to keep lines separate, but them became more interested in breeding grains. It can be surprisingly difficult to find good grain growing information for a home gardener. Here’s a link to their overall grains page: [All About Grains – Salt Spring Seeds](https://www.saltspringseeds.com/pages/all-about-grains) They offer other information about seeds, too, especially for western Canada. **Ray South** That was a worthwhile watch. Now I know why I’ve never managed to harvest oats successfully! ---
**Author:** ![Anphlo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/anphlo/32/541_2.png) [@Anphlo](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Anphlo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 5:06am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/small-scale-grain-growing-video/249/4 "2023-01-10T05:06:44Z")
the video is unfortunately unnavailable… ---
**Author:** ![Greenstorm](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/greenstorm/32/36_2.png) [@Greenstorm](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Greenstorm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/small-scale-grain-growing-video/249/5 "2023-01-10T05:20:46Z")
Looks like you need to click through the link and watch it on youtube, instead of playing it on here. The link is [Small Scale Grain Growing for Homestead and Community Gardens - YouTube](https://youtu.be/SHhN_IPOnf8) ---
**Author:** ![Anphlo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/anphlo/32/541_2.png) [@Anphlo](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Anphlo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 5:23am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/small-scale-grain-growing-video/249/6 "2023-01-10T05:23:01Z")
Thanks!