Okay DC, I found your answer! Territorial Seed Company sells Coffee Plants. Item # XHR1120 so after three years you too can roast your own beans.
Moral Conundrum -- The "Bartering Eggs For Coffee" WILL HAPPEN!
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Hey, I just wanted to pass on that my dad and I took some ducks and roos to the processor today (Harringtons) and they came back GORGEOUSLY MEATY. While we were out and about, we also hit a bunch of farms for stuff.
One woman had HUGE stalks of rhubarb for $1 a pound, and it was the first cutting, which is always the best. We got a little tour around her amazing garden (puts me TO SHAME) and she had a big row of this massive rhubarb, really tender, that she was just pulling off for me and stacking in my arms. It was glorious! A big paper bag full for $6!
We also found a flat of strawberries for $18, which isn't really cheap, but they are the tasty Mt Hood variety, and we couldn't pass them up. Can anyone say strawberry-rhubarb jam?
My dad and I trucked 2 big sacks of meat home from Buxton Meats, too. We got pork ribs, sausages, beef, a leg of lamb, bacon, and water buffalo steaks! Between our homegrown poultry and the new meats we purchased, it's gonna be a tasty grilling summer....
A thank you to greyfields for suggesting Buxton Meats. They were great!
One woman had HUGE stalks of rhubarb for $1 a pound, and it was the first cutting, which is always the best. We got a little tour around her amazing garden (puts me TO SHAME) and she had a big row of this massive rhubarb, really tender, that she was just pulling off for me and stacking in my arms. It was glorious! A big paper bag full for $6!
We also found a flat of strawberries for $18, which isn't really cheap, but they are the tasty Mt Hood variety, and we couldn't pass them up. Can anyone say strawberry-rhubarb jam?
My dad and I trucked 2 big sacks of meat home from Buxton Meats, too. We got pork ribs, sausages, beef, a leg of lamb, bacon, and water buffalo steaks! Between our homegrown poultry and the new meats we purchased, it's gonna be a tasty grilling summer....
A thank you to greyfields for suggesting Buxton Meats. They were great!
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WHAT?
Do you grow them indoors? I have to check that out!
Edited to add: I looked at them, and I think unless I have a greenhouse, that $20 plant would die in no time. There is essentially NO HUMIDITY where I live, indoors or out.
I think I'm just going to drink less coffee overall, and when I do, it will be Fair Trade.
Cool plant, though. If I still lived in Texas, I would so own it!
Edited to add: I looked at them, and I think unless I have a greenhouse, that $20 plant would die in no time. There is essentially NO HUMIDITY where I live, indoors or out.
Cool plant, though. If I still lived in Texas, I would so own it!
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The people out here get really excited about stuff like Salmonella tomatoes. My tomatoes are from the local agriculture college. the students have developed this new strain of tomato that loooks like a roma, but a bit bigger and they are really meaty. the are called super nutrition. i am also growing some big ol' beefsteaks. i just loooove to pick 'em off the vine, slice 'em up and sprinkle them with salt and pepper and snarf!
The people out here get really excited about stuff like Salmonella tomatoes. My tomatoes are from the local agriculture college. the students have developed this new strain of tomato that loooks like a roma, but a bit bigger and they are really meaty. the are called super nutrition. i am also growing some big ol' beefsteaks. i just loooove to pick 'em off the vine, slice 'em up and sprinkle them with salt and pepper and snarf!
It takes a certain type of environment for a coffee bush to thrive. My understanding of this: soil should be igneous and near where coconut palms thrive-so tropical temps and humidity seem to be necessary. The biggest factor affecting coffee's habitat is elevation...it needs at least 3400 feet above sea level, in order to thrive. It has always made me laugh when I'd see that Folgers advertisement, " The finest coffee in the world is mountain-grown!" Well no sheet,Sherlock!
I'm not expert on coffee horticulture but when humidity is mentioned as needed for growing coffee what percent is needed?
I've been in a coffee growing region in Kenya and the humidity did not seem high. I've also been to Ethiopia where coffee is grown and Ethiopia is in a pretty dry region. As you mentioned carugoman, igneous soil. Both Kenya and Ethiopia have the Great Rift Valley and both have high elevations. Just my Africa experience, can't say for Central and South America.
I'm thinking that to grow coffee in North America would take a greenhouse.
Just wondering.
I've been in a coffee growing region in Kenya and the humidity did not seem high. I've also been to Ethiopia where coffee is grown and Ethiopia is in a pretty dry region. As you mentioned carugoman, igneous soil. Both Kenya and Ethiopia have the Great Rift Valley and both have high elevations. Just my Africa experience, can't say for Central and South America.
I'm thinking that to grow coffee in North America would take a greenhouse.
Just wondering.
I was wondering how the meat carnage went. Did Rhonda server you at Buxton? Today is Thursday so they would have been slaughtering pigs, so it's always kind of pongy there that day. You didn't get ot meet the Scottish butcher did you?
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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.
It has never been proven that flouride prevents tooth decay! Not necessary at all and is actually a poison. We try to find toothpaste that doesn't have it! Also try to find sea salt that doesn't have iodine in it, as well. If you will read up on these items you will find they are not a necessity at all.
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.
It has never been proven that flouride prevents tooth decay! Not necessary at all and is actually a poison. We try to find toothpaste that doesn't have it! Also try to find sea salt that doesn't have iodine in it, as well. If you will read up on these items you will find they are not a necessity at all.
Dacjohns,
Now let it be known, that I'm no expert on coffee horticulture. That being said, I've been to Yemen and Kenya,and You're right- it's an arid part of the world. Although I haven't been to the coffee plantations there, I have been told that it does get humid enough in the mornings for dew to collect on the bush and drip down to the roots. I've been to Brazil, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Mexico. All of those countries' plantations are hot, humid, igneous soils and mountainous elevations; perfect for growing coffee.
Those recruiters weren't kidding when I was told, "Join the U S Army, and see the world!"
Now let it be known, that I'm no expert on coffee horticulture. That being said, I've been to Yemen and Kenya,and You're right- it's an arid part of the world. Although I haven't been to the coffee plantations there, I have been told that it does get humid enough in the mornings for dew to collect on the bush and drip down to the roots. I've been to Brazil, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras and Mexico. All of those countries' plantations are hot, humid, igneous soils and mountainous elevations; perfect for growing coffee.
Those recruiters weren't kidding when I was told, "Join the U S Army, and see the world!"
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You can buy wheat berries and a small hand grinder. It is not a big deal nor a huge expense. It is also better bread.
Does anybody here have experience with these? Do they come with different stones for different grinds (fine/coarse)? Guess I should go looking....
My dad bought a beautiful Mill & Mix for my mom when the old industrial coffee grinder that we had been using finally died. Don't know what happened to it after their divorce. Guess I got it stuck in my head that I need one of them (Mill & Mix) and they are pretty pricey.
I have a Magic Mill III Plus that is wonderful! It has different settings for levels of coarseness. I got my hands on some Red Turkey Wheat and never looked back. My mother grinds hers in her Vitamix! Can't control the texture with it but she just sifts hers for baking bread.
Was wondering why one can't be a locavore without being hardcore about it? Avoids all the stress and worry about coloring inside the lines, really. Do the best you can, learn more each day through magazines and forums like this, and make it a lifestyle change. But to take it so far that you have to complicate your life and hurt your budget kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it? I think Dixygirl was sort of trying to say, everything you buy is local to somewhere. Yeah, it seems wrong to truck something half way across the world, but, if you were selling something and someone wanted you to ship it to them, how would that be any different? I know, I know, that is on a small scale, not a large scale, but a lot of "small scales" add up. Everyone has to earn a living, somehow.
Just playing the devil's advocate, here.
You can buy wheat berries and a small hand grinder. It is not a big deal nor a huge expense. It is also better bread.
Does anybody here have experience with these? Do they come with different stones for different grinds (fine/coarse)? Guess I should go looking....
My dad bought a beautiful Mill & Mix for my mom when the old industrial coffee grinder that we had been using finally died. Don't know what happened to it after their divorce. Guess I got it stuck in my head that I need one of them (Mill & Mix) and they are pretty pricey.
I have a Magic Mill III Plus that is wonderful! It has different settings for levels of coarseness. I got my hands on some Red Turkey Wheat and never looked back. My mother grinds hers in her Vitamix! Can't control the texture with it but she just sifts hers for baking bread.
Was wondering why one can't be a locavore without being hardcore about it? Avoids all the stress and worry about coloring inside the lines, really. Do the best you can, learn more each day through magazines and forums like this, and make it a lifestyle change. But to take it so far that you have to complicate your life and hurt your budget kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it? I think Dixygirl was sort of trying to say, everything you buy is local to somewhere. Yeah, it seems wrong to truck something half way across the world, but, if you were selling something and someone wanted you to ship it to them, how would that be any different? I know, I know, that is on a small scale, not a large scale, but a lot of "small scales" add up. Everyone has to earn a living, somehow.
Just playing the devil's advocate, here.
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