I’d get my fertilizer from my old goat 😉 and ducks’ straw, etc. Composted. Sadly, at these altitudes, on a really good summer, the only grains we could manage would be buckwheat and mebbe oats. And I’ve TRIED for years to find out how to get the hulls off of oats. The buckwheat would have that tannin coating [I think?] and barley? It has an inedible hull too. Hulless oats is a solution but hand-harvesting is necessary, I hear. Cuz it rattles off the stalk too easily.
I think wheat is just too long a growing season for us up here. And I haven’t got a 1/4 th of an acre that’s even close to being flat! Nor do we have “soil”…only broken bits of granite, mostly. This is not an idea homesteading/survival place at all.
OldMtWoman ….partial solution sits in buckets..