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Post by Walk on Nov 7, 2011 8:40:32 GMT -5
Can you tell me what you do with your Amaranth and Milo when you get done winnowing it? We make sure it's really dry before putting into storage (we learned this the hard way). As for cooking, besides popping amaranth, we mostly grind it into flour which is also our primary use for the sorghum grain. But we also use the sorghum for nixtamal to make tortillas. As for cleaning up what's on the floor - I would do it since these grains are well cooked before eating. After all, old methods of threshing included people and animals walking on grain on threshing floors or even dry packed earth. Even my house floors are somewhat cleaner than that. ;D
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Aug 2, 2012 2:23:01 GMT -5
not cleaning mine yet, but here is a picture... The largest amaranth is actually taller/bigger than a black locust tree planted nearby which is about 8 years old!
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Post by oxbowfarm on Aug 2, 2012 5:36:34 GMT -5
This isn't going to be useful to anyone else but I'm pretty stoked about it! Yesterday I finally met my local organic buckwheat grower. I've known for a while now that someone nearby was growing organic buckwheat, I had been buying it through a "middle-woman". I've been bugging her to get some more and she was too busy so she got me directly in touch with him. Turns out he's less than three miles away as the crow flies but up on the top of a hill at the end of a goat path dead-end dirt road that it takes like 20 minutes to get to his farm from ours. Good news #1 is he's got organic buckwheat, oats, spelt, and wheat for super cheap prices. Good news #2 is he's got one of these... www.atferrell.com/clipper/products/clipper-office-tester He uses it to clean his seed lots as the orders come in. I'm sure it sees all kinds of down time. I can't wait to try it out. I feel quite certain he'd be open to renting me some time on it for a negligible fee, he was so proud to show me all of the really cool equipment he had, I was sorry to leave but I had to get to market.
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