Moral Conundrum -- The "Bartering Eggs For Coffee" WILL HAPPEN!

[carugoman]

Baking yeasts? Why yes I keep several, although DW will only trust the fake stuff that comes dry in a packet. I keep a wheat sourdough, a rye(from stale leftover rye bread)+ raw onion+ caraway seed sourdough, and a whole wheat (hard red winter wheat) sourdough. I also make my own yeast cakes out of corn starch for my general yeast baked goods like danish pastry, puff pastry, Eastern European pastries (Kolache,) and Brioche (especially when I have an excess of eggs.)

After this year's harvest, I should be able to buy a commercial grade stone mill for grinding cereals and flours. I have my eye on one that goes for about $15 grand and I have 3/4 of the cash saved for it so far. I've found two farmers, both in Montana, that grow organic, non GM Hard red and white winter wheat and also hard white spring (best for making pizza dough and sub/hot dog buns.) I can still get a great shipping deal since one of my former boarders now owns a long-haul trucking business 10 miles away from here and we're just minutes from I-10. I have storage capacity, at present, for 5 tons of wheat berries.

 

[d.k]

* Holy Moley!! What kind of thing do you keep that much in-- and how in the heck do it cool and dry enough in our heat and humidity??

 

[Frogtown]

Also try lemon thyme, it has a very nice lemon taste. It can be used in tea, fish, chicken, and anything else you would use lemons for.

 

[SterlingAcres]

I know I'm behind, but I was doing some reading this afternoon and found this...

"Here's a few of Homegrown Evolution's favorite plants to forage for, things you might find growing near you:

1. The ubiquitous dandelion (numerous members of the genus Taraxacum). This is an easy one that most people can recognize. Pick the young leaves and prepare them as you would any green. We like to steam them for a few minutes and then fry them up in a pan, Italian style, with some olive oil, hot pepper flakes, salt and pepper. The flowers can be fermented into dandelion wine--we haven't tried this but we hear from those who have that it's delicious. The roots can be roasted, dried and made into a non-caffeinated coffee substitute. In New Orleans, dandelion root is added to coffee as a flavoring. "

So, I suppose dandelions can be used for the coffee substitute that I saw someone else post already

Here's the website if you want to see what other local wild plants they recommend foraging...
http://realitysandwich.com/the_new_urban_forager

 

[FloridaChickenChick]

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That was proper American English. I learned that word from my daily newspaper, which I learned to read when I went to school back in the 60s.

 

[carugoman]

One does their research into that subject...I did since I happen to be trained, formally educated and decades of experience as an engineer. I make a subterranean structure, where 80% of its volume is below grade and constructed of composite materials that are impervious to water and humidity. I used specialty ICF's with 1 CM fiber-entrenched 4 inch slump AAAA 3300 psi concrete with #4 rebar, micro- encapsulated poly-butyl-latex adjutant and tetra-hydrous-carbutanol-pentane admixture. After the cure was done and outgassed completed,the exterior was treated with a black rubbery roll-on treatment, french-drained, graveled and backfilled to grade. Then the inside was coated with a 3 layer epoxy-based polymer coating. After this fully dried, #4 AWG stranded copper bare grounding cable was installed at 6 ft linear intervals, in grooves provided in the EPS of the ICF's as per the workbook of the latest edition of the NEC.

rebar= steel reinforcing bar; used in conjunction with a concrete pour to provide tensile strength.
ICF= Insulated Concrete Forms. These look like LEGO blocks.
EPS= Expanded Poly Styrene, the stuff that the ICF's are made of. It's like those foam coffee cups we are all familiar with but only the styrene is of a denser mass.
AWG= American Wire Gauge
NEC= National Electrical Code. It's usually the law when it comes to all things electrical.

 

[SusanJoM]

Well, I don't know of any coffee grown locally, but I either buy beans that have been roasted locally or I buy green beans and roast them myself. Rule here is coffee needs to be used within a week or so of roasting and within minutes of grinding.

Susan

 

[Backyard Buddies]

The most local, commercially available coffee I've been able to find is the New Mexico Pinon coffee. Trader Joe's carries it, if you have one in your area. It tastes a bit like coffee with chocolate added. But, it's still using imported coffee in the blend, so it's simply lessening the amount of coffee used, not eliminating it.

Here is a link:

http://www.nmpinoncoffee.com/npc_shop/pinonfacts.asp?

So, I suppose if you combined fair trade with other additives like the pinon, it could solve *some* of the moral issues.

 

[dangerouschicken]

OH THE COFFEE

I used to live in Hawaii and the freshly roasted Kona coffee was sooooo tasty

We drank Community Coffee all the time in Texas. Its not bad. Now back in Oregon, we have access to some EXCELLENT Sumatra, and I think I'm just going to try the egg barter for that stuff. If it is a success, I will let you know. You might be trying it in your own communities before long!

You have to have iodide that you get from iodized salt or salt water fish. If your water doesn't naturally have flouride, you will need to buy toothpaste with it in it.... or..... you will be paying your savings to the dentist. So, some things you will have to buy.

Oregon does not have fluoridated water in their cities, and we have a well out here, anyway. I only use Tom's of Maine natural toothpaste, no fluoride. That fluoride stuff makes me

I personally think that crap is a scam. I'm doing just fine without it.

AND I don't eat iodized salt. I eat sea salt. Still not retarded, last time I checked

BTW, this is just a three month trial. We are planning to be locavores for life.

Buncha Quaker hippies, I know

 

[Alaska animal lover]

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I didn't read to see if anyone answered this for you, but they did buy a few things they couldn't get locally. Her husbands choice/treat was coffee. They chose an organic fair trade coffee.
They also had to buy their flour & baking soda. They just researched to find the manufaturers closest to them, even if it was in the next state over. They figured the next state over was better than the other side of the U.S. or another country.
BTW, you are my hero for doing this.