to katesflowers :
Thanks for checking in.
I'm in a residential area and all of my neighbors here are lawn mowing people, so my "front yard" contrasts sharply with them, but they put up with me, since I'm an old-timer I guess. Anyone who wants to look and ask, can see examples of wheat, barley, oats and rye, growing right here in the yard. And uncommon cereal grains like foxtail millet, and "ornamental grains" like Utrecht blue wheat and variegated barley.
Every year I purchase seeds of different varieties and kinds of cereal grains for trial plantings in tiny plots of about 1 x 2 feet and some of the grains have begun to naturalize by reseeding themselves year after year.
The youngsters can see the "tall grass" that their bread is made from, and adults can see what common grains like wheat, oats, barley and rye actually look like, and I can actually make bread from the grasses growing right here in my yard, in all of it's stages from sowing the seeds to harvesting, threshing and milling the grain into flour, and baking it, which will be in it's most primitive form, so keep watching as I go through the process. I hope it will be entertaining as well as educational!
> Nick
