Kitchen Garden

FLOUR POWER!

Making your own bread at home can be an exciting and tasty experience. But have you ever wondered if it is possible to make your own flour from home-grown wheat, for use in breads and pizzas? Over the past year, I’ve been finding out exactly how achievable this is on my allotment in South London.

I expect you’re wondering how this idea came about? Well, over lockdown in 2020, I decided to take on an allotment as a project to keep myself busy when I would have otherwise been stuck indoors.

My excitement for growing my own produce quickly grew and, like many, I took to the internet for inspiration on crops and varieties suitable for amateur growers and allotment-sized plots.

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