Growing Bread I: Planting to harvest

[@viethuongvothai686]

We all joke about babish or joshua growing their own flour and made bread from scratch.. but it turn out the guy that literally said “ i coudn’t be bother to” in almost every of his video is the one to actually do it. Sure is a surprise

[@person9854]

Truly a beautiful irony. And that’s why I love this channel

[@Apotheosister]

Adam does like doing the educational thing.

[@poorangus8584]

@@Apotheosister exactly, he’ll do it for the educational value, but probably wouldn’t be recommending it for home use

[@TheSlavChef]

Real heroes do not wear capes, they grow their BREAD!

[@ledzeppelinfan1001]

Yeah because Adam is actually a good youtuber.

[@nonowords7857]

Finally, Adam seasoned his dirt and not his bread.

[@drippy.-.]

If you know, you know.

[@drippy.-.]

lol

[@TheSlavChef]

Hi Dordon Swansea.

[@bobandvoid1421]

Lol

[@anonperson5491]

This needs to be a pinned comment

[@JSideFx]

Did not expect a cliffhanger. I feel empty and betrayed. Edit: re-read the title. I have no one to blame but myself.

[@kindlin]

This post is word for word my experience with this video. I needed to do more than give you a single like.

[@deefdragon]

It needed a "part" before the I

[@arshadpakkali]

Myself too

[@reclude2059]

same boat man.

[@RyuuRider]

Showing a second of clipping the wheat straight into the sponsor isn't much of a harvest, but I'm also not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater here. Great video.

[@eugenebebs7767]

Me sowing: "Hell yeah man this rules!" Me reaping: "Oh man this sucks so much!"

[@TheSlavChef]

Me eating bread: "Nom nom nom"

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

You reap what you sow eh?

[@samsabo2271]

I know this is unrelated but that is a fabulous profile picture sir

[@eugenebebs7767]

@@samsabo2271 Happy trails, pardner.

[@Beunibster]

This is why I sow chili. It just keeps giving me fresh chilies constantly with no hassle.

[@grant1133]

I love how he manages to get so many authors/academics to explain parts of their books.

[@adrianbs0]

It's those journalism genes. Get in touch with the primary source. Those academics love to explain it themselves, instead of butchered news articles misinterpreting.

[@greatcoldemptiness]

@@adrianbs0 He is an academic himself, I'm sure he's got connections

[@Amr_D]

A former lecturer would know the ways in the education system. It goes without saying.

[@carolyngolden6681]

People who put all that work into it love a chance to talk about it with genuinely interested people. Academic nerds, especially authors, are basically evangelists for their special interests!

[@Haedox]

"don't eat your seed corn" is something i will now use every single time if people need wisdom

[@Mizatsuwu]

Dude, why do you keep showing up in the comment section of literally every video i watch Who are you, Justin Y.?

[@Haedox]

@@Mizatsuwu i just am bored with my classes and procrastinating on my thesis work so i have a lot of "free time"

[@doluseb]

Gonna use it whether it's relevant or not, because nobody will know wtf I'm talking about.

[@nostalgia_junkie]

i don't like that people see you as a justin y. copycat when it feels like i've known about you way before justin became a meme. am i tripping?

[@ThePribylProductions]

Damn it's been a while since I've watched your stuff. How you doing man?

[@matthewposton3243]

I love Adam’s inclusion of experts in each of these videos

[@StoufSto]

He learned that from his mistake with the christmas music. Always have an expert on, so THEY get thrown under the bus if your info ends up being wrong.

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

"Experts". . . who teach us evolution. XD So very "expert" of them. . . .

[@PunzL]

​@@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhimdo you enjoy wearing your tinfoil hat?

[@darklink594]

I like how you went from the pizza guy to giving in depth reports about the history of various foods

[@HoorayTV21]

.....toooooooooooo communist.

[@darklink594]

@@HoorayTV21 wat

[@strayorion2031]

@@HoorayTV21 Now recognizing the red scare and it's consecuences makes you a communist

[@downhill2k013]

@@strayorion2031 do you know what the red scare is

[@alalalala57]

@@downhill2k013 do you know what the red scare is?

[@domesticdingo1417]

When Adam takes "Getting bread" as literally as possible

[@sorenrohrbach2361]

Yoooo I go to MSU! Dr Zabinski is a professor in the same department as my major too!

[@playgroundchooser]

My condolences. #GoGriz

[@kiandavies805]

Dr zabinski seems like such a sweet old woman

[@lionheartzcs2]

Ya know I dont know how im gonna handle Adam no longer being from Macon Georgia. I mean he seasoned his Macon before his Georgia. So many memes, so many memories and it just wont be the same without that beautiful town as his backdrop.

[@barvdw]

probably Georgia was becoming too blue to his taste, he wants a new place to proselytise LOL. I guess he wanted a little cooler to live, and Tennessee, whatever you may think of the politics in that state, is a beautiful area to live. Just as West Virginia is, or (parts of) Texas. I'm sure he'll have a lot of new memories to make in his new hometown.

[@diceman3219]

@@MaFTB " he also seems to be a creative which is typical of more liberal people" that's.... is there a word for racism but regarding political opinions?

[@yunyng]

@@MaFTB Didn't he already own a house?

[@barvdw]

@@MaFTB I know, I was joking. After all, I was suggesting he wanted to proselytise his (blue) faith in the red wilderness ;) Apart from one video where he called on his viewers to go and vote, I don't really remember any highly political content, although, in America, probably everything can be construed as political if you're so inclined.

[@sonikku956]

@@barvdw Too blue? Adam always struck me as a liberal, if not a social democrat (a leftist who supports capitalism and socialism fused together), what do you mean by that? EDIT: Nevermind, you said that you were kidding lol, my bad

[@TMatt007]

I started "prepping" about a decade ago. One of the things i bought for long term emergency storage was wheat berries. I didn't even know what a wheat berry was or what to do with it. After a pretty big learning curve, I have been grinding my own grains and baking my own bread for around 7 years. I no longer buy bread. i really appreciated this video.

[@yowayde]

If you ever felt like posting a video on your process and tips on growing wheat I'd totally watch it! My husband can't eat processed wheat products you get at the store, but I wonder if he could if we were to grow our own wheat.

[@ajrwilde14]

@@yowayde try Spelt, Emmer, Einkorn, Barley

[@yowayde]

@@ajrwilde14 einkorn in on the top of our list! I've heard it's hard to work with though. The hippie bakeries around us do a loaf that's 50/50 wheat and einkorn

[@TMatt007]

@@yowayde I have only bought it, never grown it. We have a retail store relatively close that sells all sorts of grains. Honeyville Farms. I make a whole grain using wheat berries, barley berries and rye berries. If you grind the berries right before use, they are the healthiest. I bought a Wonder Mill brand mill, great for grain, but it doesn't work with nuts. I would assume that there is probably a local supplier you could buy from.

[@mzaite]

@@yowayde Just do Wheat, Barley, and Rye. The other stuff is only popular because it's diffrent and harder = "Authentic" to hipsters.

[@limacorn]

I know you dont get nearly as many views on your educational video vs your cooking videos, but I’d like to thank you for continuing to do them. I always find them wildly entertaining and supremely well done. Thanks for all your hard work :)

[@texasyojimbo]

Welcome to Tennessee, Adam! I'm growing things in 5 gallon buckets in Columbia, Maury County. I have spent an ungodly amount of blood, sweat, tears and money on trying to chemically de-weed my lawn this year and now I'm thinking I should just give up on fescue and bluegrass and start planting wheat instead. If my neighbors complain I'll tell them I'm growing flours (haha sorry pun).

[@ARMTOAST]

this video started a weeks-long bender in learning about my local ecology and ultimately led to me joining my community gardens, thank you adam.

[@plastic1605]

Adam, I really appreciate this type of content, makes me feel real good finding about humanity and it makes me feel connected to my ancestors like nothing else does. I hope you never stop with this format.

[@eltraplaysthe4thgeneration532]

This guy is the everyday astronaut of the cooking world

[@Preetzole]

What you know bout rolling down in the deep

[@ddo1114]

@@Preetzole im sorry but that song is crap

[@auraskadante6273]

@@blower5 theese ppl talk to much

[@mjs3188]

Now I wanna see the two of them collab on space food.

[@marlayoung3177]

Do you cook often?

[@jellybr3ak]

9:13 Adam, that ant was farming aphids on the wheat you were farming!

[@halyoalex8942]

Aphid Rancher! :D

[@goblinslayer6432]

Actually aphids secrete honey dew, which draws the ants. In return aphids are also protected by the ants from predators and parasites.

[@xXSinForLifeXx]

@@goblinslayer6432 that was the original joke I'm sure

[@jamescanjuggle]

@@halyoalex8942 they totally have small cowboy hats

[@gabrielfraser2109]

"Why I season my soil, not my bread"

[@bensoncheung2801]

No doubt with the necessary nitrogen species it needs to thrive.

[@ilaibavati6941]

Where I live (Middle East) we get wild wheat growing in some of the parks, with the ears maturing in late spring/early summer when the plant dries out. These are quite different from modern commercial wheat as the kernels are much smaller and fall off too easily to be able to collect them (blown off by the wind). If you do manage to get one it'll taste much like regular wheat flour.

[@flowerboy97]

I think making roti or some other relatively unprocessed whole grain food would end up better than bread here

[@dwaynewladyka577]

My dad and his siblings grew up in the Great Depression era in Alberta, Canada, on a farm. My dad said for his school lunches his mom would make sandwiches from freshly baked bread, butter, lettuce and slices of cucumber, from the garden. My dad said the sandwiches were very good. Many people do take farmers for granted. Farmers do rely on the weather, and one bad storm can ruin everything. I'm originally from a very large farm. Gardening is very enjoyable. Cheers!

[@watermakerx1]

Yet again Adam shows why he's just one of the best food youtubers. Great video!

[@TheUltimateNoobHD]

What are you man? I literally just watched a video about grain without losing interest after 3 minutes. You are an amazing KZbinr man. Your editing and scripts are super, successfully making boring subjects interesting to an idiot like me.

[@jordonbooman9913]

"It causes certain parts of us to grow more than its optimal for our bio-functions" The most polite way to call someone fat

[@WanderTheNomad]

Ooh, I thought he was talking about a _different_ part.

[@krasnamerah1926]

Thought he was talking about height because nutrition certainly affects that, stunting rate worldwide were largely reduced in the last 70 years after all because of better food production rate. edit: grammar

[@mzaite]

@@krasnamerah1926 Which sucks when a lot of the worlds design standards were made BEFORE that 70 year time period.

[@omninulla9472]

hot winter is such a good way to put it. winter down here is more like spring: we spend as much time outside as possible. in the summer we basically hibernate.

[@anyasolovey17]

Jokes about planting wheat to make his own bread are over 🤣

[@moneebkhan3744]

Thats the annoying one, Joshua weissman

[@abdqs853]

no now he'll be making his own soil starting with pure soil metals from outer space heating and mixing them up with proper care to make the soil.

[@AudreysKitchen]

This is a really cool project, Adam. Kudos. Love the notion of making traditional food as a study in the experience of being human.

[@mcheung97]

This is a wonderful video! I've been loving these deep dives into history and culture, especially seeing the process from planting to harvest and bread. I'd love to see more of these kinds of videos. They're wonderfully approachable and remind me of my years in university :)

[@user-lh7pl2fu9c]

I'd be really interested to see a series like this about rice

[@prayle3887]

if you're wondering why your aphids multiplied so rapidly, when conditions are good for them, aphids are parthenogenic (meaning that they do not need to mate and instead undergo asexual reproduction) and they experience telescoping generations (meaning that when they are born, the next generation is already undergoing development inside of them [yes, pregnant babies, nature is weird like that]). they don't even bother to grow wings as adults when conditions are good; why would they need to leave a good host plant? as conditions worsen (i.e., host plants die) the next generation will have wings and take off.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Oh crap, aphids are tribbles! I guess that’s why ants and ladybirds and so forth farm them, too. They’re easy mode. Feed them and keep them safe and they multiply, you eat the rest or whatever.

[@prayle3887]

@@kaitlyn__L well, not exactly. ants in particular typically farm aphids in order to get "honeydew" which is just the waste secretions of the aphids. like many hemipterans (the "true bugs"), aphids feed almost entirely on plant liquids, which are rich in sugars but very low in nitrogen compounds (amino acids, proteins, etc.), so they have to consume a lot of this liquid in order to fulfill their dietary requirements. this means that their waste is essentially the unneeded sugar water. it's more like the relationship between humans and cows (if you ignore the part where we eat the cow). not saying that ants never eat aphids, but that's not typically the goal.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@prayle3887 I did know that, but I often get really wordy in some of my comments, so I’ve been trying to trim it down a bit 😅 still, if our cows just multiplied and we got way more milk, that would certainly be convenient!

[@123Todayy]

this is the most insane fact i have ever heard

[@MumrikDK]

Aphids are pretty terrifying.

[@shethjrebbell]

I really appreciate Adam’s love of and ability to book subject matter experts and scientists in these videos of his.

[@zeanamush]

My favorite part of the Evolution of grass is it really puts into perspective on how quick and how recently plant evolution takes place. The dinosaurs did not not have the option to eat grass

[@widodoakrom3938]

Lol no

[@octaneblue6]

I've been waiting on this video since you mentioned it awhile ago. Living my proto-agricultural dreams through you, Adam! Keep it up!

[@romhac8234]

This guys puts so much effort into his videos

[@jacobhires990]

I'm amazed at how simple growing wheat actually is. Lot of work, but very simple in concept.

[@tobybianchi6756]

4:07 - reminds me of the following that has stuck with me since I read it in Horse, Wheel, and Language: "Domesticated animals can only be raised by people who are committed morally and ethically to watching their families go hungry rather than letting them eat the breeding stock. Seed grain and breeding stock must be saved, not eaten, or there will be no crop and no calves the next year. Foragers generally value immediate sharing and generosity over miserly saving for the future, so the shift to keeping breeding stock was a moral as well as economic one. It probably offended the old morals. It is not surprising that it was resisted, or that when it did begin it was surrounded by new rituals and a new kind of leadership, or that the new leaders threw big feasts and shared food when the deferred investment paid off. " p155

[@RonJohn63]

The hallmarks of being an adult are delayed gratification and thinking beyond the end of your nose.

[@victorquesada7530]

Thanks for that citation! That was my thought exactly.

[@NomadicSheep01]

Adams voice is calming. Thank you

[@Reversinator]

The man actually grew his own bread before Babish.

[@NT-sx2bd]

Adorable shinx pfp!

[@Reversinator]

@@NT-sx2bd

[@siyacer]

And beard?

[@Rulerofwax24]

Great video, I really like learning about the whole lifecycle of staple foods like this. It's sort of like How To Make Everything but without all the faff of making your own stone tools first. I also appreciate the high quality captions in so many of your videos. I don't use them often, but it's nice to have the option and I know others really use them. I did notice a typo at 10:33 in the captions around the export of the Green Revolution. Nothing big, but it's nice to get it right.

[@jasdub765]

Adam, I watched your first episodes on making pizza and glad you continued to make content till this day. Super informative and genuinely entertaining to watch

[@avivarabinowitz7895]

In the Middle East, they take nearly ripe but still GREEN wheat, smoke it and then coarsely crack it. The resulting grain product called"freeka" is delicious in stews or pilaf type dishes

[@avivarabinowitz7895]

This would be handy if you have to harvest early

[@christinedolmayeh9094]

One of my dad's favorite foods! Though it's quite difficult and time-consuming to make and cook, especially compared to burghul

[@mov7526]

0:41 I can't wait for the Adam Ragusea YTP comming out of this footage

[@Luke-cp2jz]

Even better is his communism speech towards the end

[@decasaint532]

in bulgaria we eat the soft wheat seeds with cream and sugar as a desert, it's really nice

[@bzymek7054]

Hold on, Adam no longer lives in Macon, Goergia? That was a big part of this channel's identity!

[@derekkim593]

Check his newest community post

[@crash.override]

Knoxville should count themselves lucky to now have Adam

[@fsmith45]

@@crash.override We do!

[@nickcurrier1546]

I found your channel years ago and thought it was pretty cool then KZbin didn't show me your content for a long time but it popped back up yesterday and I just wanted to say how much I enjoy these videos. Mini deep dives on food history and science makes for awesome listens while at work

[@KyrieFortune]

Under every video by Babish and Joshua there's the joke they're going to cultivate their own wheat to make bread, but Adam is the only one who has actually done it. We now know who's the king of Cooktube.

[@NumB_000]

I recommend seasoning the water, if you know when to stop but if you are unsure you should season the oven you can see if it need more seasoning by color

[@CronyxRavage]

Your hair is beautiful. I've never seen anyone with such healthy, thick, shiny, inky black locks.

[@gorbachov-kun]

I love that adams video is like a well made collage report, not just spouting things from wikipedia/twiter/etc. He uses books, real life examples, and more. I'm a food tech uni studend, and hates to do collage tasks and search for journals/books with 2020 desies. And i can surely say adams videos makes me love food and its procesing more way MORE then some of my lecturers (still hella respect them ofc).

[@Nossimid]

Finally!!! Step 1, so I planted my own wheat...

[@espicfh]

yes

[@bobbun9630]

I grew wheat this winter (almost 600 square feet of it!), and harvested it about a week ago. I'm still processing it, but I'm expecting a decent yield. Anyway, I learned a ton of things. One is that sometimes wheat does stand back up after it begins to lodge, lol. Another is that corn (maize) is an easier grain crop to process! Mine wasn't planted nearly as thick as in this video, and I didn't broadcast sow it. I planted in rows about 8" apart, trying for one seed about every 3/4 of an inch. I did feed it a few times with modest amounts of lawn fertilizer. Mine needed a fungicide treatment at some point, but still seems to have turned out ok despite all the yellow stripe rust at the end of the season. Wheat is actually very sensitive to timing. To maximize yield and avoid problems, you want to apply fertilizer, fungicide, etc. at exactly the right stage of growth. Miss it by a week and you'll still get a crop, but it won't be as good. One very nice feature of the wheat was that it was incredible at weed suppression. The area I planted it in was previously bermudagrass lawn. There wasn't a sprig of bermudagrass in the plot after I harvested the wheat.

[@macnof]

As a farmer that mainly grows wheat and barley (in Denmark), we seed the grain in rows of about 10 cm apart (4") using about 200 kg of seeds pr. hectare. The plants end up being about 3-5 cm apart (1,2-2"). Seeding as broadly as you did will lead to lodging and a far lower yield in general that a more densely seeding. A well kept, good wheat strain in a decent soil will yield 10 ton (metric) or more pr. Hectare, even in a country as cold as Denmark. Of course, the yeild on a specific strain will lessen over the first 10-25 years it's grown, so the strains my dad grew is no longer used in Denmark as they have become "tired". We constantly isolate new strains to ensure a higher productivity.

[@bobbun9630]

@@macnof Thanks for the feedback. This was my first time growing wheat in the garden. My final yield (converting to metric) was 4.64 tons per hectare, though I only planted 54 square meters. That yield is slightly better than the average commercial yield where I live. My planting density was broadly consistent with recommendations published by the local university's agriculture office. I did have one brief episode of lodging (the plants stood back up after a few days) in a corner of the plot where the wheat grew taller. Most likely the taller growth was because of some partial shade in that area of the plot, but it could have been higher soil fertility in that corner. It's probably worth mentioning that the climate where I live is not ideal for wheat. Temperatures go from freezing at night to 30C daily in the space of about a month, and I have both high temperatures during grain fill and high humidity while the grain is drying down. The grains most commonly produced in the state where I live are rice and maize.

[@macnof]

@@bobbun9630 Those temperature fluctuations won't affect the yeild, as long as the crop weren't too big when it entered hibernation. Every cold cycle like that that affected the plant will leave a mark on the leafs looking like it was pinched. It's only if the pinch marks are on the top three leaves that it had any effect on the yeild. The top leaf carries 60-70% of the crop, the second carries 20-25% and the rest on the last. Our climate is possibly even worse, we plant in September and the growing season is so short that we won't normally be harvesting before September. We also have frosty nights in the start of the growing season, they don't really cost any yeild. The main issue with wheat is oftentimes the amount of water, the amount of fertilizer and of course the strain of the wheat. The strains is, as far as I can see, the main reason for the difference between the states and EU yeilds. The US strains haven't been grown for many decades now here as they have been tired for long. It's the same with russet potatoes.

[@mrbullseye]

Fun fact, "corn" or "korn", in Swedish, means specifically barley. It can also mean speck or grain, like a grain of sand, "ett sandkorn/ett korn av sand". Corn on the the hand is called "majs" just like the name maize. It's funny and quite enlightening to consider what specific grain or seed gets the name corn in different languages and why that is.

[@TheYopogo]

4:35 Not just used to! Fyi, corn still means any cereal in British English. i.e. wheat corn, barley corn etc. If you just say "corn" unqualified, you usually mean wheat.

[@ghazalaansari6]

It’s a lot easier in Minecraft

[@lyoozero]

Imagine just combining 3 bundles of wheat in a workbench to make bread IRL

[@theelectricant98]

Fax

[@nowdefunctchannel6874]

@Jeff Bezos no way

[@sandreid87]

4:34 Corn (or Korn, no not the band) still means exactly that in scandinavian - Seed. A small, hard seed, growing on plants. Corn, as used in english now, is called "Majs" in Danish.

[@RonJohn63]

"Majs" must be a homophone of "maise".

[@chrisresnikoff1741]

"...grew it over the Winter..." Me in northern Minnesota: "You fuckin' what?"

[@MagnumCarta]

Props to you, Adam, for mentioning Norman Borlaug. He's my personal hero. Its a damn shame I only learned about him a few months before he passed away.

[@TheWhiteDragon3]

4:18 It's not _that_ hard to imagine. I believe you were very specific in your video on dry aging that an accident resulted in a preservation method. It's also around this time that people started taming/domesticating horses and cows, and yogurt/cheese was invented. Taking long steps to insure a food source in the future was a part of hunter-gatherer lifestyles, too.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Indeed, lots of traditional preserves were invented pre-agriculture

[@cnoory12]

I love your content Adam please don't ever stop doing this

[@campionkrautter7544]

Hey Adam, pardon me if this may be rude. Comparing this video to one of you a year ago, you look so much more healthier & seem more energized! It seems like you’ve been exercising and taking care of your health, and I just wanted to let you know I can see the results! Love your work!

[@someguyik]

At least Norman Borlaug was recognized for his work that saved millions. Yuan Longping died just last month, but his death barely registered outside of China. His hybrid rice varieties also saved hundreds of millions from starvation, but alas, no recogination despite being just as big a part of the Green Revoluation as Borlaug.

[@ArticBlueFox96]

This kind of reminds me of the book "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" by James C. Scott.

[@YaBoiHakim]

Lovely work!

[@AndrewGillard]

Oh hey, I wasn't expecting to see you here! 😸👋

[@extrules]

You had too many aphids because it looks like you may have had HERDER ANTS! While you were farming, so were they! The ants defend aphids from predators like ladybugs. Ants dont eat aphids, but they do eat the sweet secretions aphids produce, known as "honeydew". Lots of species of ants farm aphids, and some definitely live in the continental USA. Good luck, can't wait for part 2!

[@orangeyellow9695]

Those aphids killed my long beans, zuchinnis, snake gourds, and pumpkins.

[@BluJns]

I love that kind of heavy bread! Add Brewers Yeast, seeds & nuts! A meal in a slice or 3 with fresh butter.

[@nanzymyap]

The way your parents say they ate bread.

[@chefe2152]

Man, this brought me back to when I was kid in good old Ploand ,helping my uncles harvest wheat and barley,riding on the combain ,tying up the wheat straws good old days

[@norobot858]

Yes, I would like a video about the green revolution.

[@lancemckenzie1074]

Plant diseases make for great skeleton names! - Fire blight (the unforgiving) - Black knot - Leaf blister - Oak wilt - Blister rust - Sun blotch - Ink spot - Canker stain - Souring - Dry rot - Black root - Branch wilt

[@smartaleckduck4135]

Finally my favorite food group!

[@davidbouldin3326]

Living in Knoxville, I can attest...that Cruze Farm Dairy shirt is legit! They are amazing!

[@FahmiZFX]

For when they days I didn't like history classes during my high school years, it all turned around when Adam Ragusea thriving on KZbin and I never thought I would like it (for food history that is). And I am thankful for it.

[@FahmiZFX]

@@Noam-Bahar It's all about the grades and expectations rather than the students actually learning something and most importantly, take them to heart.

[@rjsalameh]

hurry!!! please post the 2nd episode!! These food and Ag videos are the best!!!!

[@sephirothjc]

I remember everyone's reactions to other youtube ches making their bread from.scratch, and here's Adam taking things to pretty much the ultimate level.

[@TheWorryingWolverine]

Hmmm, a few plant sticks and some garden wire, for building a "support grid" might prevent the wheat from lodging in the future.

[@sooooooooDark]

SHOULDVE GOTTEN SCYTHE TO HARVEST THE FINISHED WHEAT ITS LIKE COOLEST TOOL BRUH

[@NT-sx2bd]

Just like stardew valley!

[@bobbypatton4903]

Adam, you make such good videos, I love watching them.

[@thomasking49]

I’m happy you moved to a bigger home, but then again my mom always refers to you as the “Georgia guy”.

[@joniqitu]

Food and history is my favourite subjects, please make more

[@declanmanning518]

I've been wondering about this for such a long time! looking forward to pt 2

[@Teawisher]

The flowering lawn grass was kinda cute. So smol ^_^ Like a mini meadow.

[@3rdjrh]

Brew some beer with that grain next!

[@mzaite]

It's feed wheat, probably has no functional Diastatic properties. He needs to do a Barley and Hop grow next spring.

[@3rdjrh]

@@mzaite if anyone could do it, Adam could!

[@matheff71]

Harari in Sapiens also wrote a big chunk about wheats. How they domesticated us, not the other way around.

[@meepmeep8035]

This was really cool to see

[@victorquesada7530]

One thing that I would like to add about the discipline you mention around 4:18 might have religious connotations. My armchair interest in history and anthropology gives me this hypothesis: The first, largest kernels found in a field are buried or dropped back on the ground in gratitude to the earth goddess. A seasonal thanksgiving feast, worshiping the literal Earth that gives them life, returning to her a portion of her gifts in a reciprocated gesture, makes a lot of sense. ~100 ->10,000 iterations of this, dropping/planting seeds in the place where they came from (where the environment already proved suitable), selecting only the biggest/best/tastiest for an offering, leads the shift from hunt/gather/cycling through the landscape to settling in the places most suitable for the growth of the grain. Why move when you have more food than you can carry? Why move when you have all that you need in one spot? It's a hypothesis, one that I have come to after other people have put it forward, and I have no proof, but a religious context could go a long way towards allowing people to overcome the immediate gratification of eating the seed corn.

[@starfthegreat]

Would love to see a video on the Green Revolution

[@carloalison]

I rarely comment but I must say that this is really interesting. Looking forward to part 2. Lol the segue to square space.. Adam is a king of ads segue.

[@haggis525]

"Don't eat your seed corn" is the same idea as "Don't get high on your own supply" 🤣🤣🤣

[@kurtphair1446]

Adam I love your videos thanks for consistently putting out high-quality stuff.

[@sunspot42]

"You've gotta think that ancient people, perpetually on the edge of starvation, would have trouble thinking months ahead..." That's kind of a myth, though. Last I read, we see far more evidence of malnutrition and mass starvation after the invention of agriculture than before it. As it turns out, nomadic humans had a vast diversity of food sources to turn to, and their mobility meant that if pickings were slim in one geographic area, they could relocate to literal greener pastures. Agriculture was arguably easier, but when the crops failed for some reason the results were pretty catastrophic for those who'd grown dependent on them, especially once humans were hunkered down in early towns they'd invested a great deal of resources building.

[@sunspot42]

I'd also add that it was probably the ability of the nomadic, hunter gatherer early humans to plan ahead for when and where various plants and animals would be available to them over a broad range that probably resulted in the invention of agriculture, which involves a similar ability to plan ahead and work cooperatively like with hunting, but involves far less running around. They brought most of the gathering to their favorite spot.

[@RonJohn63]

If that were true, then humans would have given up agriculture and returned to nomadic hunter-gathering.

[@sunspot42]

@@RonJohn63 No, because when the crops didn’t fail it was a much easier lifestyle than hunter gatherer. When things went wrong tho, well… www.discovermagazine.com/environment/early-farmers-were-sicker-and-shorter-than-their-forager-ancestors

[@RonJohn63]

@@sunspot42 there had to be *some* advantage.

[@sunspot42]

@@RonJohn63 I already told you the advantage - it was easier, when the crops didn’t fail. But being rooted in one spot and depending mostly on grasses for food didn’t work out so well if there were droughts or flooding or a spell of freakishly hot or cold weather. Agriculture allowed humans to build up large local populations, which was great until the crops failed. Then unfortunately the local human population was beyond the local carrying capacity of the land for hunter gatherer approaches, and we see malnutrition and outright starvation as the result.

[@MrRoyalChicken]

Casually moving to another state without making a fuzz about it and merely mentioning it casually in the fifth video from there. That's something that no other youtuber than Adam would pull off. This shows great devotion to sticking to relevant content.

[@Asteroid_Jam]

Last time I was this early Adam had not seasoned his grain instead of his bread.

[@AxxLAfriku]

ATTENTION BROTHER!!! I have two very very sweet girlfriends who I show off (I smell like 100 not-alive orangutans oh nooo) in my perfectly great videos that most people consider to be the reason of life! Thank you for you attention, dear dude kid tee

[@lazy_6999]

Today was a rare day of eating bread, this video makes it better :)

[@Segatari]

That’s incredible Adam!

[@dailyblankscreen7938]

You make great videos!

[@Segatari]

@@dailyblankscreen7938 And you make great blank screens ;)

[@buzzfiend]

I'm from California. I think "Hot Winter" describes our other seasonal occasions pretty well. "Flaming Summer" is another one in western L.A., lots of good wind and matchwood

[@QuolashMCDuck]

not gonna lie, as a farmer, that part about "just waiting for a it to grow" hurt. standing 6 hours a day in the sun whacking weeds so the plants we want to grow can thrive. it's neverending work. great video nevertheless.

[@janedoeYT]

Thanks for the hard work!

[@Lizard-813]

Hey! I accidentally have been following along with this video in real time! I have no idea how it got there, but some wheat (I'm fairly certain it's wheat, anyway) started growing in a tight cluster in my backyard. I let it go for months, and then harvested it about a week ago. Granted, it was only 30 or so stalks, so nothing compared to your harvest. It took me a while, but I just got the grains finished processing the other day. I've got exactly a cup of them. I'm yet to grind them, but I may as well wait for part two so I can learn from your mistakes and get better bread.

[@dafttassia1960]

are you still doing the tomato series?

[@applecake6373]

Its like you read my mind! Last Tuesday I thought about how id grow bread and hear you go doing it.