Canada: Growing Wheat at Home in Vancouver, BC
The final step was milling the grain into flour, using a KitchenAid grain mill attachment.
By Samiko and John
Jan 16, 2026
A couple years ago we decided to try something a little unusual for city gardeners — growing our own wheat. The idea started mostly for fun, to see if it could be done on a small urban plot here in Vancouver. We dedicated a 10-by-20-foot section of our yard and planted winter wheat.
The wheat grew slowly in the cooler months and ripened through the summer and into the Fall. When harvest time arrived, we cut and bundled the stalks, then set out to thresh them the old-fashioned way — simply rubbing the heads between our hands to release the kernels.
To separate the grain from the chaff, we repurposed a mill and glued rubber disks to the grinding surfaces which rubbed off the chaff. This took some trial and error before we found the right amount of pressure so we wouldn’t crush the seed at the same time. Our stand up fan worked beautifully as our “winnowing machine,” pouring the mixture back and forth in front of the airflow until only clean wheat berries remained.
The final step was milling the grain into flour, using a KitchenAid grain mill attachment. From the entire plot, we produced just about two kilograms — not a huge yield, but enough for a couple of loaves of bread.
What started as a backyard experiment turned out to be a rewarding reminder of where our food comes from, and just how much work goes into every handful of flour.
Today in association with the Sunset Community Centre we developed a program which we call Wheat to Flour Project. The goal being to grow wheat over the summer into fall, collectively process at a farm in the Fraser valley that grows organic grains then share the flour equally. At the farm there are the machines necessary to do this and we’ll visit as a group and process the wheat.
Source: https://cityfarmer.info/canada-growing-wheat-at-home-in-vancouver-bc/
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