Montgomery County Hosts Wheat Event with Kleeman 4-H Community Garden

The UT/TSU Montgomery County Extension Office hosted a wheat-focused learning event on June 6 with community partner the Kleeman 4-H Community Garden. The event is part of a summer series the Extension Office is putting on in 2024 at Kleeman, and their June 6 session was all about wheat, flour, and how it is produced. Students and adults both learned about wheat harvesting, threshing, and grinding the old-fashioned way at the well-attended event. Event attendees harvested the wheat heads, put them in pillowcases, and “threshed” them by beating them against the wall. They then poured that threshed wheat into trays and separated the chaffe from the seed and tried grinding with the mortar and pestle, rock and shell, rock on rock, and then through a battery-operated grinder. “The youth who participated enjoyed the interaction and how much work went into making flour,” said UT/TSU Montgomery County Extension Agent Karla Gargus.

The UT/TSU Montgomery County Extension Office hosted a wheat-focused learning event earlier this month with partner the Kleeman 4-H Community Garden