He sharpened the scythes on the grindstone, slaughtered a pig, caught and salted fish, ground barley in a water-driven gristmill and grew and stored potatoes.
For our plantation, the approach we have is to go through every step of the way - every step of the process - so that we grow it, we pick it, and we process it in the mill.
This makes it lighter for baking especially if it's been in the dry larder for a while and it removes any bugs or moths or bits of chaff that may have flown in from the mill.