We move in to a new farm that that we are slowly converting to a food forest. It has about 5 acres of oat. We were told the oats were planted originally for oat hay, but since the previous owner died they were not harvested. The seed head are now forming and we are told it is not good as oat hay for animal feed anymore. I am thinking perhaps we could let it ripen and harvest them as oat for human consumption. Problem is, we have no farm machinery and no idea how to do this. And how will two people homesteading eat 5 acres worth of oat? What should we do?
