We drove up to Jack Creek Farms in Templeton today to attend a threshing bee. This was certainly a day to make you count your blessings and appreciate all the hard work people used to have to do. The weather was beautiful and the farm delightful.
This is a tractor in the field cutting the wheat and tying it into shocks. These were loaded onto a wagon and taken to the thrasher.
The thrasher was loaded by pitchfork and the grain was separated from the chaff which fell down under the machine and the grain went into sacks.
This gentlemen was sewing up the wheat sacks after they were filled. Someone told me he was 100 years old. It was clear he had lots of practice.
The straw was discarded into a big pile and was fed to the goats and made into straw bales for bedding.
Now, back from the field. This is the little hand grinder that ground the wheat into flour. They were giving samples of bread and let kids do the grinding. That's a lot of hard work for a bag of whole wheat flour. Sure makes me appreciate what people did years ago to have bread!
It was a good day!
Nice! Thanks for sharing this interesting step into the past.
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