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Anyone else here experiment with growing their own grains? Obviously small-scale grain production is more work with reward than growing acres of the stuff and processing it with machines, but I gave it a shot one year just to have something to fill in gaps in the garden and it turns out it's extremely fun. So far I've grown:
Winter rye
>pretty easy to grow and process
Winter wheat
>easy to grow but kind of a pain to process
Sorghum
>easy to grow and process, kind of want to make molasses at some point but that seems like a pain in the ass to do small-scale
Flour corn
>annoying to grow with all the pest pressure here but extremely easy to process
Amaranth
>annoying to process but tough as nails, has self-seeded everywhere
Pearl millet
>annoying to process but FUCKING INDESTRUCTABLE, has self-seeded everywhere and made my yard a bird sanctuary
