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Homesteading in Brittany-threshing by hand

 
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I have recently been making little videos of myself and members of my family doing different jobs on our smallholding in Brittany, France. Traditional agriculture is  not completely dead in these parts, and we have learnt lots of things from the old people round about. Clever ways of storing vegetables for the Winter, working the ground using a hoe, or mattock, cutting lots of grass and spreading it as a mulch,  and also threshing by hand with flails. Here is a link to a video l made of threshing this year's wheat crop (which was actually very poor, but the rye was better).
 
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That looks like slow work, or do you get faster with experience?
I would like to see more of your farm and hear what your are doing.
 
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Threshing by hand is quite hard work, but it doesn't take that long - just an hour or two one afternoon, or two in the case of this year's rye crop. Our flails are very big-you could make them smaller, and it would be easier, but probably take a bit longer. I've put other videos online on my YouTube channel, which is called hoe farming, how to create a self sufficient farm.
 
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Do you have a quick link to the Youtube channel?
 
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https://youtube.com/channel/UCLshpaECVZwFqF-QzP1XyWw

Here is the link-l think. I'm new to smartphones, and  couldn't work out how to copy and paste.
 
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