“We harvested the plants with scissors, and after the season slowed down in 2009, we hand-threshed and weighed the wheat.
Based on yields, we planted out the best varieties in 2010, paring it down to about 30 different varieties. We also started trialing varieties of barley, dry beans, amaranth, quinoa, and teff.
Today, I’m in the spare bedroom of the house we rent in town, looking at the sacks of wheat we cut with scissors in 2010. It was rough on the hands and took quite a while to hand-thresh the wheat from 2009. God bless the internet, for I stumbled upon this video of a farmer who built a bucket thresher for his grain…”
