From Wheat to Straw
The wheat story has a sad ending. It’s all gone. Every single bit of it.
I checked on it last week and found the back half decimated. Squirrels and birds, no doubt. I’d seen them nibbling on the perimeter, but I never expected they were busy destroying what I couldn’t see.
This is what I saw when I walked out there. The entire back half was gone.
The worst part was there was nothing I could do. I was days away from going on vacation and didn’t have the tools, supplies, or time to construct a netting box. Also, the wheat was too green to harvest. It was close, but not close enough to harvest.
This is what was left when I came home from vacation.
I hope you enjoyed that wheat, you darn squirrels.
Lesson learned: put your wheat into a netting box if it’s small enough. If it’s not, well, got any suggestions?
The Suburban Farm 
Farm the squirrels! And next year grow fewer low value staple crops, and more herbs, tomatoes, and greens–things that cost the most at the grocery store (a good lesson I learned from Freelance Farmers–a yardfarming business).