Using the same methods as our ancestors fairly easy but time consuming.
Go on line for popcorn seed. A quarter lb will give you plenty for a family. If it’s hybred you don’t have to pollenate the tassels There are NO hybrid corn except Indian corn and a few popcorn. All others have been cross pollinated and can not be grown by last year kernel/seed
Wheat is just a grass. Harvest is done in sheaves when dry the berries fall out if you use a large blanket toss in air. The shaft will blow away. There are other methods but not as fun
If you can get RUSSIAN RED wheat seed it is a heritage seed and you can keep seed from year to year Try not to get a hybrid.
Foxfire books have lots of information. So does the Internet.
I’d like to try the Russian red. Nonhybrid seeds just seem to be the smart way to go. Even if I decide not to do the labor intensive gathering of the berries, I can collect some seeds plus watch the wheat wave in the wind :-)
No corn is nonhybrid? I have some golden bantam from Emergency Essentials that they claim is nonhybrid. I’ve only collected the seeds but haven’t grown any yet since I still have a lot left from the jumbo bags they sold. I have to admit it wasn’t a very tasty corn, not compared to the supersweet hybrids my husband got. We had to be careful with cross pollinating, but it Seem to work out OK with a different planting times.
Thanks for the links and the ideas. I have one Foxfire but, the first one. I suppose I need to find the one specifically on growing the plants I’m wondering about.