Growing Bread I: Planting to harvest

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Thanks to Dr. Catherine Zabinski at Montana State University, author of "Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop": press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...
Check out the part II video, harvest to oven: • Growing Bread II: Harv...

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@Neimonster]

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

[@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.

[@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?

[@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?

[@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.

[@itsshrimpinabag9544]

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

[@PunzL]

​@@itsshrimpinabag9544do you enjoy wearing your tinfoil hat?

[@domesticdingo1417]

When Adam takes "Getting bread" as literally as possible

[@gabrielfraser2109]

"Why I season my soil, not my bread"

[@bensoncheung2801]

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

[@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

[@lionheartz1337]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@chrisresnikoff1741]

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

[@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?

[@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.

[@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).

[@flowerboy97]

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

[@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 :)

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@user-lh7pl2fu9c]

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

[@Reversinator]

The man actually grew his own bread before Babish.

[@NT-sx2bd]

Adorable shinx pfp!

[@Reversinator]

@@NT-sx2bd

[@siyacer]

And beard?

[@decasaint532]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@Nossimid]

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

[@espicfh]

yes

[@kajerlou]

I'm so glad you brought up Norman Borlaug. I hadn't seen anyone talking about him since that one episode of Penn & Teller's old show.

[@mzaite]

He was on an episode of Scientific American Frontiers years ago too. I want to say it was pre-Alan Alda.

[@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.

[@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.

[@natrapx1582]

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

[@jacobhires990]

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

[@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.

[@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 :)

[@nanzymyap]

The way your parents say they ate bread.

[@kurtphair1446]

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

[@bobbypatton4903]

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

[@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!

[@CronyxRavage]

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

[@greenlizardballs]

This is an incredible video. Watching it still. Love it.

[@cnoory12]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@jimmyrodriguez7660]

This is such a cool video idea! Looking forward to part 2

[@clairemcnerney]

this is so cool! thank you for showing us how things happened for so so long & explaining it all so well

[@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!

[@romhac8234]

This guys puts so much effort into his videos

[@saraatppkdotpt8140]

Always here for good videos & great useful information! Thank you Adam 😊

[@shethjrebbell]

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

[@haggis525]

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

[@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

[@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

[@collinslagat3458]

Your first attempt was amazing. I'm a sucker for brown grainy bread.

[@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.

[@meepmeep8035]

This was really cool to see

[@kaiezesi6630]

Wow great video. I love nature and feeling connected with it without dropping modern leisures. And this is really cool

[@GigaDavy91]

Best episode in a while, great job

[@declanmanning518]

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

[@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.

[@K1LD3R]

Love to see a new Ragusea video when I totally forgot it was the upload date. Love that surprising feeling!

[@MrTmb64]

It came right as I wanted to try baking bread. Thanks adam

[@ArticBlueFox96]

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

[@starfthegreat]

Would love to see a video on the Green Revolution

[@NomadicSheep01]

Adams voice is calming. Thank you

[@blorblin]

Ooh! Looks like a nice series.

[@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.

[@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

[@Kiwjtastic]

I can't wait to see the next video, the whole wheat topic always kinda fascinated me. I remember playing with tall grass as a kid and stripping the seeds by hand. I always wondered if I could somehow eat that... turns out I have been for years.

[@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.

[@sooooooooDark]

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

[@NT-sx2bd]

Just like stardew valley!

[@oobie3049]

I read the title as "Growing Beard I" and was like "this video is sponsored by Dollar Shave Club".

[@applecake6373]

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

[@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.

[@smartaleckduck4135]

Finally my favorite food group!

[@rjsalameh]

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

[@PlayusTheGreat]

I’m already excited for part 2

[@thomasking49]

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

[@cradezclan4889]

Plot twist: he waters the plants with white wine

[@joniqitu]

Food and history is my favourite subjects, please make more

[@NoName-se5wj]

Love the effort in every vids! Definitely learned a lot from the channel

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@lazybunnycat7593]

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

[@srikantsahoo8192]

Now that's the way my father ate food according to him

[@subratadhar7698]

:D :D haha

[@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!

[@Max-nb7eg]

your squarespace transitions are wayyyy too smooth ahahha. I laugh every single time it hits me. Love it and love your content!!!

[@efraim3364]

How Beer saved the World is a good documentary to go with this

[@dafttassia1960]

are you still doing the tomato series?

[@pennyforyourthots]

Oh yes, another skill to add to my repertoire on my journey to become a mad Appalachian hermit who's the local townsfolk only tell Legends of

[@adriang3492]

OMG I never wanted a sequel so bad!

[@jamesmcleish6990]

Ahhh I was so excited for this video, and its dropped! Hell yeah