hey guys it's mike and trevor here with perfect gardens we're about to start to make some can
of flour to teach people how to make flour out of the counter plant and to teach people how to have
a substitute gluten-free substitute a gluten-free substitute that's what we're aiming for guys so um
you know nobody's doing this we're the first ones at perfect gardens we have always said we're not
all about the weed uh we want to feed the people too so so that's uh that's what we're doing today
guys so we're going to jump on to this so let's uh let's start showing the people i'm going to
flip over the camera i'm going to start showing the people what our base product looks like if
you grow weed you grow these everybody's got these except for this this is bamboo we're not
putting bamboo in the floor if you grow weed you grow these um sticks stems these can be ground up
into a flower and used as a flower substitute in york in your baking i recommend when you do it dry
them until they are bone dry and they snap bone dry however before doing so i didn't do it with
this batch i also recommend using a carrot peeler and peeling off the bark on the outside the green
bark yeah take that off so that you're down to white and then for the purposes of my device
to make flour with i then take all those dried sticks instead yeah because people don't want to
watch this breaking you know we have to break down the material to a certain point you break it down
to a certain point to handle the machine that you've got yeah this is a little big and i'll
break it down a little bit further to be ground down into a powder i'll get a handful of smaller
bits out of the bottom of the bag you see that yeah i'm going to be breaking it down into pieces
something like this to go into the grinder this is a uh high-speed uh high-powered mill spice grinder
grinds up to a pound at a time you take the little broken bits and pieces of stem that have been
peeled yeah throw them in here and you grind them up to a 90 grit 90 grit is about the grit that you
would use for making pasta flour or what would be an artisanal flour it's gonna it's gonna have a
gritty feel in your fingers not like not like um baking powder or not like talc not at all okay
so trevor this the the flower we're making today right is for the a recipe that we're going to make
uh on our next video so the the base of what we're doing here today is we're showing everybody that
you can make flour and then we're going to show how we can make day-to-day recipes with the flour
with the flour now the two people that are going to be really interested in this is people that
need a gluten substitute right yeah are um the gluten substitute are uh just somebody that wants
to try something else different right yeah so it's something else to do with your with your leftover
sticks and stems right we all i mean so many of us who grow pot we we have so much of this stuff
well trevor we're growing the field this summer just for the stocks yeah just for the stocks but
uh so many people have so much of this stuff this is just another alternative option of stuff to do
with your harvest because this is part of your harvest and it doesn't have to be waste
no you can grind it up you can use it in flour and one of the recipes that i'll show will be just
simple standard flour white bread right use a can of flour you have it you can make it
and it'll come out pretty near exactly the same as all purpose flour white bread slight
different color because maybe i didn't get all of this all of the bark off or something like that
because you'll see it's an artisanal flower it's an artisanal flower yeah
and we are planning to go further with this and we're going to buy brother better machinery and
all that but right now we're we're in development and uh we're taking you along what you're seeing
right now is the birth of a business in between me and trevor so so let's take the
the next step then and i'll move this over here yeah and uh i will fire up the grinder
so right now we're putting together the together the grinder to be able to grind our stalks yep
all of the machinery here is of course food grade and sterilized and cleaned and uh actually truly
meant for this purpose so that's the blades we're using today and the stocks are just gonna go
so this is basically a super blender this device pearls for instance like bacon canadian bacon
mentioned in um in chinese herbalist uh medicinal culture uh pearls are used ground up in various
natural holistic medications so this particular device can essentially ground up grind up stones
into dust no that's cool as hell we then take a selection of the smaller pieces because i was a
little slack breaking them up just throw a bunch of that in i want to throw a good cross section
of what you can sort of get away with throwing in here stuff like that there's a piece of bark this
is what you're stripping off this is the bark on the counter plant you want to strip that off
you don't really want to throw that in a little bit more here a little bit more and you can hear
that's the level of dryness that you want when you're putting it in
you want it really dry and when you're doing it by hand you can just strip off the uh
the bark when you see a really heavy bark you can take it off but on the light higher
branches you don't have to it's only where the stock gets up to about an inch or gets
really heavy that you you need to at the bar yeah the lid goes on obviously and then you crank it in
now this machine may be a hell a very loud yeah this is going to sound like we'll just edit it
that's what's happened to everything so far yes
so we take out the take out some of the chaff here
you can at this point i'll grab a grab a nice clean bowl to show you where we're headed
just take a steel sifter you can then take this
just kind of pop that back in there so it's nice and clean
and that's how it starts okay so it is quite labor intensive but it's going to be worth it yep
for now it is you know because i didn't put a hell of a lot in there so there's not a lot of volume
to work with so that's our screen okay so what we just showed you now once we we're going to run it
a little bit longer to get some more out of it yeah and and then all the stringy stuff you dump
that off throw it out and continue going what you're winding up with here is the white hearts
of the of the stalks and stems the nice white hearts that are pulverized and turned into a
beige flower like that and the reason the color is like that is because i wasn't 100 removing
all of the bark right okay so we ran the we ran the grinder for a little while longer and as you
can see it absolutely pulverizes everything so we'll dump it out for another another sift out
so after a while trevor will be left with any uh hard stock like that in it yes we'll be left
left with fiber you can throw that in your compost you can throw that in your garden
you can burn it in your way okay so now now we've broken down the fiber and we're
separating the flour from the fiber think of it like if you're using if you're doing a grain
you're separating the the chaff from the husk okay yeah that's cool so this is basically uh ready to
go into the into the compost now yeah our is you guys are doing a worm farm uh this would be great
million are growing mushrooms this stuff is great covering for uh for fall crops and stuff like that
yeah yeah there's a thousand and um you can this is great cattle feed so yeah we're gonna save this
and bacon's going to take that back and use it in his organic grove yeah yes i see uses for it uh
yeah i got a worm bed they'll love that
now what you got there is pure ground can of stems okay so we have some
regular all-purpose flour we've got some regular all-purpose flour yeah and on the other side
here we have we have canned flour this kind of looks a little bit like uh sawdust right now
because it's at about 120 mesh what you do is you you do your primary grinding like we've just done
uh you collect up a whole bunch of this stuff clean out your grinder and then you
put this back in to the grinder and you put it through one more grind when you
have a couple of cups of it and you wind up with something nice and fine like that
cool that's a great comparison yeah so let's continue grinding guys
however i will state for the record all of today's product all of today's stems came from a legal
canada for plant personal grow what we're going to do now is i will attempt with this
uh with this little amount to put it through the grinder a second time
to uh to make a finer grind and more approximate a flower okay so throw that back in okay hillbillies
this is the first grind okay so this would be our first beating of the flower now we're
going to refine it at this point yeah so we can refine it we want to make like a whole bread
we could cook with it like this as we wanted to make like the closest thing
to a commercial white bread we're going to show you how we're achieving that now
okay so this is what we got guys you just got to let it sit for a second there's a there's
a basically a dust bomb in there that wants to explode so let it settle for just a second
and there no not quite still got to put it through one more sit yeah what sift are we
using here is it this is a this is a 90 grain okay do we have any we can get a
a 120 or something like that right oh yeah
it depends on the system we want depends on the product we're gonna be cooking
for our chicken batter um this is gonna be fine right well what you saw what
came through the first time you can see these little bits and pieces were still left in it
right and that's all fine and dandy if you're making like an artisanal loaf bread that's got
hemp seeds and stuff you're expecting little crunchy bits in there
but if you're making an approximate of a white loaf or you want to make some nice nice poofy
doughnuts or some [ __ ] like that some great stuff some great stuff then you take this out
let me get a slow shot on that and there we have what i would consider almost like a durham
semolina or a double o flower something like this would make excellent pasta and you'd put
this through and grind it one more time and it'll come out even finer and we'll shake out a little
bit more chaff and uh yeah it's just a refining process the same as white flour and and my machine
is limited by the size yeah i can't really do much finer than that right now because i don't have the
volume so continuously making more and more and adding to this then it gets better once you have
more volume to put into my machine so basically guys thanks for spending some time with me and
trevor listen trevor your channel basement garden basement gardener youtube on instagram
yeah and uh yeah come on out check it out check out perfect gardens check out canadian bacon yeah
thanks for all kinds of goodies yeah we're are thinking outside the box me and trevor yeah and me
and trevor are also going to be visiting a lot of guys in the ontario um place and uh that's it so
thanks for joining us uh me mark dave trevor all the guys from perfect gardens peace peace bye guys
you describe the the methodology i always talk to people about is
is you can either go faster or you can improve the situation right it's like if we can create
just the right amount of healthy stress the plants are going to reward us over
and over again that's what they're there to help us and we're there to help them