#185510 - 10/16/09 04:28 AM
Re: Harvesting wild nuts, seeds, and grain?
[Re: Susan]
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Crazy Canuck
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 02/03/07
Posts: 3223
Loc: Alberta, Canada
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Our growing season is long enough for lots of berries, but not for most nuts and protein-type beans.
Didn't get out for bush Saskatoon berries (serviceberry to some) this year. Our plantation of tame ones gave us all we could handle.
Every year I notice hazelnuts forming in the bush and plan to get back when they're ripe; but in a week the squirrels have them all and laugh at me when I return. Ratfinks.
I harvested a few heads off of sunflowers. I could have dried them for seed/food, but I didn't have time to fuss with them. So I cut the fleshy stuff off the back and put them in the bird feeders.
I dry a lot of seeds for scarlet runner beans to plant next year, as well as squash varieties that thrived, and scatter seeds from flowers that bring in the pollinators.
There's a spot in the farmer's field outside my property where he swerved around the wheat because of a downed tree. I think I'll saunter out there and collect the wheat, including stalks and roots, for my DW's class. Here's where your bread comes from, kids; what's the next step? It's always more real when they see it and touch it.
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Harvesting wild nuts, seeds, and grain?
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dweste
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10/16/09 02:00 AM
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Susan
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10/16/09 02:25 AM
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dweste
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10/16/09 02:32 AM
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Todd W
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10/16/09 02:39 AM
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dweste
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10/16/09 02:46 AM
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EchoingLaugh
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10/16/09 03:35 AM
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Susan
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10/16/09 04:03 AM
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dougwalkabout
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10/16/09 04:28 AM
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dweste
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10/16/09 05:41 AM
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dougwalkabout
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10/16/09 04:45 PM
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Susan
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10/16/09 05:25 PM
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dweste
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10/16/09 05:29 PM
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Susan
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10/16/09 05:58 PM
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CANOEDOGS
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10/16/09 02:01 PM
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dweste
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10/16/09 02:42 PM
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scafool
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10/16/09 03:18 PM
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