TaylorC
03-31-2008, 08:37 PM
Wife & I are building a garden, mostly raised beds, pretty modest I guess but more than most urbanites.
Not really shooting for self-sufficiency, just good food and educating the kids.
I'd like to keep a patch about 10x10 for cereal - spring barley and triticale I'm thinking, but open to suggestion if anyone knows anything about grains in northern CO.
From what I gather, barley farmers in NE CO get about 90 bushels per acre, which ought to give me at least 10# in my little plot, enough for a batch autumn beer.
I may have found a line on a few pounds of malting barley (and maybe not) but haven't found much out there for small quantities of seed for cereals.
Any help appreciated.
Not really shooting for self-sufficiency, just good food and educating the kids.
I'd like to keep a patch about 10x10 for cereal - spring barley and triticale I'm thinking, but open to suggestion if anyone knows anything about grains in northern CO.
From what I gather, barley farmers in NE CO get about 90 bushels per acre, which ought to give me at least 10# in my little plot, enough for a batch autumn beer.
I may have found a line on a few pounds of malting barley (and maybe not) but haven't found much out there for small quantities of seed for cereals.
Any help appreciated.