Once you have your wheat you will need a grinder(mill). The one we have is the Wonder Mill Jr. It’s a hand crank mill that comes with steel grinding wheels and stone grinding wheels. The stone will get a finer grind for a more authentic flour, but the steel plates are nice as well for things like grinding corn into corn meal. We chose a hand grinder in case we ever got into a survival situation without power. In that case we could still make bread with a gas oven. It’s up to you which route you go. The hand grinder is irreplaceable when you need it, but inconvenient for day to day use. It’s a trade off. Just do your research.

When you first start grinding your own wheat flour for bread baking, you will find out soon that the flour is very heavy. In order to get a good bread it’s necessary to get the grind down very fine. We do that by getting a large basket strainer and sifting out the flour to trap all the large pieces. We then dump the contents of the sifter back into the mill and grind it again. That gets the flour down very fine and makes great flour for bread. If your grind is too big, it won’t rise well or it will come out hard as a brick. Just experiment with small batches to get your method down.