Growing wheat in your backyard isn't only for the plains of Kansas and Nebraska. Planting a few pounds of seeds in your garden can yield eight times as much edible grain.

The first is is that you need acres and acres to produce even a few pounds of flour. The truth is that 1,000 square feet – the size of an average backyard – is enough space to grow a bushel of wheat.

Check out a video of Jenna’s DIY wheat thresher in action below, and head over to Jenna’s post DIY Bucket Thresher for Backyard Wheat Growers on the Win-Win Farm blog to get instructions for ...

Winter wheat also works well in mixtures with other small grains or with legumes such as hairy vetch or winter peas. A typical mix might be 3 to 4 pounds of a cereal grain with one-fourth pound of ...

In May, Revel Warkentin scattered seeds in her Vancouver yard. By late summer, she hopes the plants in her eight-by-12-foot plot will be taller than her two-year-old son. And this fall, she plans ...