HOW MUCH RICE CAN YOU GROW IN 1 SQUARE FOOT - Growing and Harvesting Rice in Your Backyard Garden

Ever wondered what it would take to grow your own rice in your backyard garden? Well I did just that. Come see how much rice I was able to grow in just 1 square foot of garden space and would I ever grow it again.
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[@leon22081994]

Hi, just trying to dispel a misconception. Rice doesn't need to be flooded to grow well. It just needs moist soil like any other grass or plant. The flooding of paddy fields is to kill out other weeds and grass that can't tolerate floods like rice can. Ive grown rice in normal potting soil just fine.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Good to know. Thank you!

[@naomibrandt3260]

That’s good to know. I was wondering if mosquitoes would be an issue trying to do this in the backyard. 😬

[@Radicalist-Manifesto]

500 sq ft of grow area planted with native fat grained rice yield 70 - 80 kilos of rice for me (Kerala India), which is enough for my 3 adult person family for whole year.

[@d.kirankumarpatro4877]

Being a humble farmer in todays fast paced and capitalist society doesn't seem so bad. Have good day brother, love from Odisha.

[@RASDB7]

1 annual harvest?

[@Radicalist-Manifesto]

@@RASDB7 two harvests can be had, each approx 70/80 kg! But I only do one coz I don't need more 😊

[@oddish2253]

I remember when my grand parents used a large wooden mortar and pestel to remove the hull of the rice then a large round woven flat basket to toss the rice on the air to sort the rice from the hull. Filipinos have different names for every stage of rice. Palay, Bigas, and Kanin.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I actually bought a mortar and pestle after that video so I might try it again with that.

[@TearDrop455]

A friend of ours now living in USA, his mom is still in El Salvador. He said when separating the grain from the chaff she (they/el Salvadorans) would call the wind with a certain tune they whistle. Now, I am a devout Christian at first I had trouble doing this. But if me or hubby are outdoors in the heat I’ll do the whistle and simultaneously ask Jesus for a breeze.🙏🏻✝️ Yes it has worked thus far. 😊

[@ItachiOkasan]

In Thailand we take a big bunch and bang it a concrete floor

[@joselugo9973]

I have seen other people grow Brown Rice in the no hole buckets. When finished growing and dry, they lay it out on a blanket and beat it with a stick that has two sections that are held together with a little chain. Then they put it in a large flat basket and flip it up in the air to blow off the husks.

[@Radicalist-Manifesto]

For small quantity at home, roasting is very energy and time intensive. You can try making boiled rice instead. Boil the paddy grains for 15 minutes. Coo and dry it. Then put it in blender/mixer and whip in 2 second pulses and the husk comes off which can be blown aaway. Its much easier that way.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Thanks so much! I’ll try that

[@dragonbreeder]

I totally appreciate your efforts here, thanks. I’m also experimenting with growing rice, AND I actually am looking forward to the shelling challenge.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

That’s awesome. Let me know how the shelling process goes. I love learning new methods

[@aaronkozak7144]

Where can I get rice seeds?

[@HelenaBoutel]

I saw a video of someone using two chopsticks to drag the string from the plant between the two sticks, just holding the chopsticks in the same way you would hold them to use them for eating. Then mash the seeds/the rice with a stone or in a similar grinder, but without cooking them to take off the husk. And it worked well

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I’ll have to try that. Thanks!

[@bibinthampy1599]

Florida should start rice farming like asian countries so they have continuous supply of rice in US, in off season they can also grown fishes in rice paddy.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I believe Arkansas is the biggest grower of rice in the US. Then California, Louisiana and Texas. I’m not really sure why Florida isn’t a big producer

[@bibinthampy1599]

@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a somebody should try in small scale.. And see the result.u can keep for urself and rest can sell out. Farmers are future billionaires. Buy land do agriculture.

[@darceyschultz2370]

Florida does grow a lot of rice in the everglades

[@hungthai1207]

This is the way farmers in the early days did to collect harvested rice by hand. Rice stalks were chopped off the rice plants and organized orderly in to mount on a dry, higher land. Some farmers chose to move their crops to their own yards if possible. Others might leave it where it is until the next step because moving the whole crops home is not a possible option for them, so they have to harvest at a time when no rain could interfere and damage the new crops. Now is the time to separate the seed from the stem. Farmers would pick up a bunch of cut-off rice plants by hand or with 2-wood sticks tied together at 1 end with a rope. This contraption allows them to have a bigger bunch. They would beat this rice onto a wooden slat which was spaced apart to allow the breakaway rice seeds to drop under the platform and collected in bags. This rice then would be spread out to dry to remove moisture and firm up for processing. The stow-away may be removed by cattle stomping or become cattle feeds. Processing rice uses a large wooden mortar and 1 or 2-long pestles for 1 or 2 operators, sometimes a giant wooden hammer-shaped is used. First, you have to knock off the rind and blow it away with wind, natural or man-made. Brown rice is obtained after this step. To get white rice, the hard work continues with the same primitive tools. Thank god that with today's technology, ALMOST all farmers do not have to do these tasks anymore. EXCEPT FOR SOME, THE HARD WORK CONTINUED!!!!!!

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Oh my gosh. That process is eye opening. Tough farmers for sure!

[@liza8577]

Im so happy to have found this video. I am germinating some brown rice now and Ive always wanted to try and grow. Ive always thought the tall grasses were quite pretty as well. Thank you so much for sharing! 🐝

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Absolutely! It is very beautiful as it grows. I was thinking about getting some tall planters and putting some rice on either side of my front door. I think it would look beautiful on the entryway.

[@liza8577]

@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a you should!! I was thinking of doing same for either side of my garage. We just might start a whole new trend of organic decorating 😄😄

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Love that! 💚

[@liza8577]

@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a we are going to mesmer-rice our neighbors. 😃

[@vueher4965]

In my culture we smash it in a giant mortar and pestal that is operated by a see saw with feet power. Then we put the smash hulls and grains on a flat pan and flip it like an omelette egg, the heavy rice falls back on the pan and the hulls fly off. Very labor intensive but easier than how you did it.

[@HitTheDirt]

I was looking for something to grow with duckweed. I found your video so I’m soaking fresh compost in a kiddy pool with duckweed. I have some of my own videos but I also have a playlist interesting by others. It’s a library of other creators interesting work. Your video has been added to this playlist so others can find it! Great video! I would imagine if you took untreated boards one 12” board on bottom 2 4” boards on sides and one 10” board with two handles made onto it so it can be moved and pressed back and forth. I think the length could be 3, 6, 8, or if two people worked it 12 feet long with 4 handles. Use a wisk broom to clear grains dropping and husks should blow away!

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

That’s a cool idea. Thanks for the info

[@HitTheDirt]

@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a would love to do live content but 69 is a far cry from 500 lol

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I believe you can do live’s if you have 50 subs. I think you have to validate your account first but it should be available after that.

[@HitTheDirt]

@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a guess I missed that somehow.

[@mayhemschild]

I didn’t hear you mention where you got your grains of rice or the type of rice you planted. I think it’s great you grew it!

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I got the seeds from MIGardener. It’s labeled as long grain rice. It was brown in color. His germination rates are normally pretty good but the rice was only about 50%. Not sure if that’s a normal thing with rice seed or if it was something else that caused that.

[@sansomspressurecleaningpoo9519]

My suggestion is do it outside pressing the two cutting boards. Then throw everything in a bowl. Then blow the husk off. Rule of thumb. Work smarter not harder. You can also take a rolling pin. To do it the same way. You’ll see your results much faster.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I love the rolling pin suggestion. That might be a game changer. I think if I had allowed it to dry on the plant longer that might have helped too.

[@HelenaBoutel]

​​@@HomegrownFloridaZ9ayou can hang them upside down to dry (havent seen the video yet so in case thats not what you already did)

[@idkyoo]

I need a whole field to sustain me LOL. as an asian american I eat like 3lbs of rice every week!

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Lol! It definitely takes a lot of space to grow a large amount of rice

[@tomaitoe]

How cool is this!!! I have literally no advice to offer. I just definitely want to try this next year 😃

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I was really surprised with how easy it was to grow. It was also really pretty. The hard part is processing 😤

[@CristalMermaid]

Brietheplantlady on KZbin also grows rice in South Carolina and has several videos on growing grain. Not sure how she process it though. Thanks for sharing your adventures on growing rice I have been considering on growing it myself too. Looking forward to see if you find a method of processing it easier.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I have a couple ideas for next time. I’ll check her out and maybe connect with her to see how she handles the processing part.

[@sunnydayz4040]

I appreciate you going through the process and sharing! Have you tried growing cassava? Excellent survival root

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I haven’t yet but I’ve been very intrigued. Does it taste like potatoes? How big does the plant get? I’m very curious

[@hetheringtonfamily8798]

Thank you so much for this vid. I live in Australia in a very humid climate so I am going to try this

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Good luck!

[@joeGuizan]

Nice❤. I saw another one, but the measurement was not given.😅 Glad you did it here👍. (Wish to add a few snails or tiny fish if I try it😅😅😅) We expose to the sun for several hours before dehusking.🎉

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Thanks for the tip!

[@michellemarkham1816]

Thank you for sharing your experience

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

My pleasure!

[@shaza6547]

Our area is similar climate to Florida and we have a dryland, rain fed rice company. That rice is great.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Nice!

[@TeacherMom80]

Thank you for sharing this! 🙏🏼

[@ShadowFangASMR]

There is a video on KZbin called " seperating the husk from the grain " its waaay faster that way 😄

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Thanks! I’ll check that out

[@manutd054]

Great job explaining the process..! Thank you very much 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

My pleasure 😇

[@gy2gy246]

Except for the hulling, this looks like fun.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Haha! So true

[@damitawren3595]

Try a Grain Mill attachment for your kitchenaid stand mixer.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I’ll check that out

[@kawaiajackson9037]

I recommend getting the proper tools for processing the rice to make it wayyyy easier if this is something you want to continually grow.

[@MadwillexD]

Bowl and baseball is all you need

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

That’s a interesting idea 💡

[@MichaelRoberts-o7j]

What about something like a cement mixer to tumble the rice for removing the hulls? Or possibly a rock tumbler, maybe even with a few small rocks in it. I think that would be a great experiment...

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

That would be a good test. I’ll try that next time 💚

[@mrtomlinson637]

Damn!!! I wish you boiled it!😂 great video!

[@MadScienceHobbiest]

Have you thought about using a bucking board to remove the grain from the stock...pulling the plant through a small hole in a wooden board,just like they do hemp bucking.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

No but that’s a great idea!

[@Nicole215]

*Thanks for sharing this great information. I'm going to give it a try. However, I am NOT going to sit there and pull every single rice grain from the hull, lol. Especially, when there are AFFORDABLE mill machines that will do it effectively and fast! As Google puts it, "Milling is a crucial step in post-production of rice. The basic objective of a rice milling system is to remove the husk and the bran layers, and produce an edible, rice kernel that is sufficiently milled and free of impurities." So yeah, that's the route I'll be taking once I harvest my organic brown rice. Lol*

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Im with you! I will not be doing it manually ever again. Let me know which mill you end up getting and if you like it.

[@butterflyj685]

@Nicole215_Good luck! Most milling machines for removing the husk from rice average cost is about $1000 to import from China or India. This doesn't include the cost of shipping & customs. Most Americans are not willing to pay $1500 to process a few pounds of rice. It's not cost effective. What they are willing to do is build their own contraptions to remove the husk and properly mill it. There are many people that are doing the same and sharing their ideas. My husband is very technical and machinical so he and our teenage boys are working on building something small scale.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

@@butterflyj685I never considered that. My husband is really handy too so I might have him try and build me something

[@Mechanicthegrey]

Rice will grow with out flooding the ground. Flooding the plants is used for weed control. Rice can be grown in dry land it just has to be watered like most plants.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Thanks for the clarification

[@jaimeduncan6167]

As expected the Japanese have self-service machines that do the work, it looks like a funny vending machine.

[@mychellemercer7903]

I just looked up what is needed, look for a rice husker

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I’ll check that out! I do want to try growing it again

[@skyangel6336]

Someone needs to make a small home machine you can separate the rice from the hulls! Ah they would be great! How many seeds will one pot handle?

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I think I started with 50 seeds but only about 30 germinated. All in that one square foot. You can really pack them in.

[@jackgoldman1]

I will always buy my rice. So dirt cheap it is actually cheaper than dirt. Thanks for proving to me it is not worth it.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Haha! Very true

[@gy2gy246]

She was doing it for fun.

[@rb7994]

Impressive and thansk for the video - but that would have to be some really tasty rice for me to go to all that trouble!

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Very true! It’s certainly a process. Gave me a better appreciation for rice, for sure.

[@hopeup2792]

QUESTION: Could you have put the rice stalks in a dehydrator verse the paper bag for a month?

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Yes! I think that would work fine.

[@charleslawson1714]

How does it hold up to hurricane season im in alabama and wantingbto try rice

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

It did fine for me. We went through a Cat1 when I grew it and it was fine. It loved all the rain and the wind didn’t bother it.

[@AgricultureView121]

Informative

[@johnliberty3647]

These are the experiments I like the best, how many calories can you get from one square foot. This year I am doing yams (not sweet potatoes) and cassava. Next year might be rice. I want to know which of these calorie crops are the most efficient.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

It was a fun experiment for sure. Keep me updated on the yams and cassava. I’m growing taro this year.

[@antheredhen]

I think I'm going to try this. We haven't had a lot of luck growing in SW Florida. So far only hot peppers and a few tomatoes. Asparagus is growing well haven't harvested any yet. I think being new we haven't gotten the timing and proper dirt down yet.. Then Ian dropped a tornado on our yard and tore up our garden. Litteraly flipped the raised bed upside down. I want to do like you've done in the back yard with the beds. Ya maybe potatoes is a better bet. To feed us for a year that's a lot of space.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Wow asparagus can be hard here. I’d love to hear how you are growing it. FYI I put out a monthly video on everything I’m starting to help with the timing. That’s probably one of the biggest struggles growing here. I hope your house and family were safe from the storm. It was terrible for lots of folks.

[@SudhirN-jc6dx]

You can try pearl millet, finger millets. Equally laborious to grow.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I’ll check those out!

[@BigFloridaCowboy]

Where did you buy the rice for seed?

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I got them from MIGardener.

[@josefschwabl]

I grow rice in Canada :)

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Very cool!

[@jonhartsell7529]

kind of curious why you hand picked the rice off the stalks instead of using a thresher? there are several simple thresher ideas out there. no power or large areas required.

[@RM-yf2lu]

A hand cranked grain mill with rubber pads over the grinding surfaces will rub those hulls free

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Great idea!

[@hungthai1207]

The early farmers used something similar to your idea but with castles pulling the crank on a stone grinder.

[@loanicastillo3327]

Buy a Dominican mortar or "pilón." And use a fan...

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I’ll check that out. Thanks!

[@louellashetty8572]

Harvesting shd be all rice in a cloth bag n trash it on the table or ground

[@itsGameOver.]

this would only be worth it in an apocalyptic scenario. Can spend 10mins and $20 for a 20lbs bag at the grocery store. very cool though i wondered how much you could get.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Yeah it was definitely a curiosity thing for me. Pretty plant though

[@joebobjenkins7837]

What do you do for mosquitoes?

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I haven’t found a good solution for those yet. They are pretty rough

[@josiesteed7573]

i wanted to grow my own rice bc I eat it lat least once a day but eeeeeveryone who tries says they wouldnt grow the rice again :( i wish it was a more rewarding process

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I think if I found a mill that worked well, I would give it another go. The plant is fun to grow. It’s the processing of it that’s tough

[@pramodkm1905]

Very Nice vedio, why you autoclave the raw paddy?

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I did it more to dry out the hulls so they were easier to break.

[@pramodkm1905]

@@HomegrownFloridaZ9a we do boil the raw paddy and dry it in sunlight... When ever need take it to mill for grinding. Or traditionally do in home in big wodden mortar. In your vedio all processing described but you didn't say about final food.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

@@pramodkm1905 I actually milled this into rice flour as the end product.

[@cherylanon5791]

the processing by hand is hard, yes, for all grains removing the hull is the kicker LOL. This is why the industrial revolution and advent of gas powered machines led to large growth of populations wherever they gained the use of those machines.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I can definitely see why!

[@kayallen7603]

Grains are labor intensive certainly. That's why we don't do it.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

True words!

[@gapurachannel1532]

what about wheat?

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

I haven’t tried that one yet.

[@pramodkm1905]

Please mention the breed name of paddy.

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

It’s a long grain brown rice. I got it from MIGardener

[@oddish2253]

You can germinate store bought rice

[@pramodkm1905]

@@oddish2253 Yes.. thank you, we were doing all the work here, in a enormous way, as around 5 or 6 sacks of indigenous paddy seed kept immersed in pond for 1 week all start germinate then sow it in paddy field, in 1980s everything was going well, gradually paddy cultivation declined, all turned to market for rice. South India more than 200 indigenous paddy breeds were there majority extinct. Many preserved in agricultural reserch institute.

[@pramodkm1905]

@@oddish2253 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqDanYCphpp4fK8feature=shared Seed Man of Kerala... Cheru Vayal Raman

[@ennbee2051]

Y'all🤦‍♂ Another Yankism being used in the U of the K.

[@astridcruz1967]

Found this on Amazon. It looks like it harvests the rice from the hull. Loved the process. Yamamoto Electric household rice milling machine MICHIBA KITCHEN PRODUCT Takumiajimai White MB-RC52W

[@HomegrownFloridaZ9a]

Oh my gosh. Thank you so much. This is exactly what I was looking for!

[@Youtube_sensors_closeyourAcct]

Experiment: I would Try using a rock tumbler (rotating tumble over a vibrating tumbler,first) with a few rocks. Plug it in and let the the machine do the work. This may do one to two Lbs at a time. *If , this works, a bigger scale machine would be a concrete mixer ( available in a small size). This would require a lid or plug of sorts to keep the content (rice) in. I use a 5gl bucket I stuff as a plug. …I tumble OTHER stuff Not rice. ….not yet lol. Thank you for sharing your input