Threshing the Barley

Once the yaks have done their job in removing the grain from the panicle (as seen in the last post), it is time to sort the grain from the stalk and then winnow the chaff from the grain. Once again, the process is a community effort.
Not having grown up around farming, I was fascinated by the process.

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