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[CapricornFarm]

Do you have to leach them in order to grind them into flour? Or eat them in general?

Think I'll head out and gather some to peel and chop for the chickens as a treat.

Thanks for the tip.

For human consumption you would definitely have to leach them. Goats eat as is. Chickens, i forget but let them try it au naturale.

 

[chickadoodles]

I am so sorry!

I hope she does not lose too much of her things

Thanks Ron.
The main thing she was worried about was the kids beds.
They have 2 small children they did not want falling out of bed on hard floors. So they did not use bed frames so the kids could not get hurt.
I told her to rip open the box springs and spray them with Lysol and let them dry out.
I'm not sure about anything else right now.

 

[Beer can]

I heard white oak doesn't need to n peaches? Some white oak here but mostly bitter red. Acorns did pretty good here this yr, I'll leave them to the deer lol.

Edit, lol, to n peaches?
need leaching?.....
Darn phone lol

 

[pennyJo1960]

Yes! Beet greens are very tasty! I like mustard greens the best and chard.

It is nice to be able to find greens in the store fairly regularly now

I was able to order the seeds and have mustard greens growing

http://www.rareseeds.com/search/?keyword=mustard greens better yet it says they are donating all seed sales to hurricane relief

 

[microchick]

Thanks Beer Can. We have more white oak trees than we could ever begin to count. Reds also along with Shingle Oaks. The conservation officer for the area told us a story about how to tell a red oak from a white oak.

Think cowboys and Indians, he told us, holding up two different leaves. The cowboys shot bullets. He held up a leaf with rounded edges. Bullets are round tipped so round tipped leafs belong to white oak. White Oak=white man's bullets.

Indians, he told us. Shot arrows. He held up the leaf with pointed edges. Arrows have sharp points. Leafs with sharp points are red oak. Red Man's arrows=red oak.

He grinned sheepishly and added that he hoped his story didn't offend anyone but it was a sure fire way to identify oak trees.

I've never tried Beet greens. Turnip greens yes, but not Beet. The deer love beets. Many plant beets and turnips as deer feed plots.

 

[ronott1]

Thanks Beer Can. We have more white oak trees than we could ever begin to count. Reds also along with Shingle Oaks. The conservation officer for the area told us a story about how to tell a red oak from a white oak.

Think cowboys and Indians, he told us, holding up two different leaves. The cowboys shot bullets. He held up a leaf with rounded edges. Bullets are round tipped so round tipped leafs belong to white oak. White Oak=white man's bullets.

Indians, he told us. Shot arrows. He held up the leaf with pointed edges. Arrows have sharp points. Leafs with sharp points are red oak. Red Man's arrows=red oak.

He grinned sheepishly and added that he hoped his story didn't offend anyone but it was a sure fire way to identify oak trees.

I've never tried Beet greens. Turnip greens yes, but not Beet. The deer love beets. Many plant beets and turnips as deer feed plots.

With beets, you have to watch out for the juice...Turns a lot of things red...even after you eat it!

 

[perchie.girl]

When I was 14? Hid three $50 bills rolled up in the end of my 12ga shotgun. Worked in the bluestone quarry every summer vacation, winter/spring break etc. If I didn't spend it eventually mom and dad would run short and 'borrow' $ (never pay it back) to buy stupid stuff like food.
Forgot all about it until I saw little pieces and chunks in the melting snow around the bird feeder that I had shot a squirrel that winter
Gathered as many of the pieces I could find, dried them out, no way could they be reconstructed/taped....
Friends mom took me and the envelop of money confetti to the bank (no way could I have let my parents find out lol) I explained what happened hoping they would replace the $, they couldn't but sent it out and I was mailed back a check for $150 from the Federal reserve

There is actually a division Within the Federal Reserve devoted to "reconstructing" money. If you have More than Half a bill its considered legal tender.

deb

 

[ronott1]

There is actually a division Within the Federal Reserve devoted to "reconstructing" money. If you have More than Half a bill its considered legal tender.

deb

As long as the serial number is readable

 

[perchie.girl]

Been reading a lot on Native American corn. Hominy has the outside shell taken off by soaking in lye, Native Americans used wood ash. Masa for corn tortillas are made with hominy also. Does something to the protein, regular ground corn meal won't work the same.
Pretty interesting, I've never heard of it, and don't know if the Native Americans knew, or just made hominy so it was easier to grind? A primarily corn based diet can kill you, 'pellagra' disease from lack of niacin. The hominy process makes niacin nutritionally available from the corn.
Apparently making corn into hominy wasn't done when when the grain became popular worldwide. Took awhile to put two and two together and was a big problem back then, Native Americans, north and south, didn't develop pellagra.
Now days everything is enriched with vitamins so not a problem.

Yep Yep Yep.. If you take and soak Corn in wood ash it turnes blue.... then grind up.... Lye in Wood ash...

Corn was one of the first domesticated foods in the new world. The original grass was found in ditches and the grains harvested.... around 9000 years ago....

https://www.thoughtco.com/maize-domestication-history-of-american-corn-171832

The reason its called corn is because the Europeans that came over called all grains Corn....

I love history.....

 

[perchie.girl]

Oh wow how funny. When I first move to Al. I could not find cream of wheat or other hot cereals we ate. So I bought grits, I tried flavoring them with sugar and milk, jelly and everything I could think of. My kids hated them!
When the kids went to school and learned how to eat them with butter salt and pepper they lived grits! Haha
I had no clue!

Yep.... but I like em with Butter and Brown sugar... and just enough milk to cool it off enough to not burn the roof of your mouth.

Grits with Stewed Tomatoes and bacon.....

deb