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In my supply of mead making honey, there are a couple of large jars I don't dare use, because they are manuka honey (they were marked Tea Tree honey, and, at the time I didn't know those two things were the same), and my view is that, if it has all of those extra medical properties, consuming a...

Well, the rice (well most of it) has been hulled to get rid of broken kernels, and, hopefully, my fingers will heal in a week or so (pulling the hulls off of rice does about as much damage to the skin as pulling corn kernels off of ears, with the added complication that you can't use gloves...

Thanksgiving is covered by one of our cousins, so the menu will be up to him. He tends to go for a large heritage breed turkey, and most of the traditional side (though, being of Scandinavian descent, we get lingonberry sauce instead of cranberry, which is fine with me.) Generally, my only...

"Little birdy in the sky, does his thing as he goes by. Angry farmer wipes his eye, Very glad that cows don't fly."

Looks like some sort of bromeliad to me. I don't know the species name, but it's the one that makes the pink and purple flower spike.

Speak for yourself! I'd be back to that Pho bucket with some 20 gallon containers and drain it as soon as it got dark enough for me not to be seen. I don't care HOW many people slurped it before I got there; it's nothing a quick re-boil won't cure. Into a deep freeze, and I'm set for the winter...

That's one of the few there are (though I tend to hear the word sporangium more often than sporange.) The only known other one is Dorange, which is an uncommon surname in some parts of Southern England (I think there may also be a town in the area called Borange.)

The word you are looking for is "winnowing".

Not impossible, but it looks awfully clean for a fossil (i.e. it's still the right color for a fresh one, and the opening is free of stone. The latter could be taken care of by cleaning, but this was dug up from the ground.

An online check seems to indicate three line mud snail. Though what one is doing that far inland is beyond me (maybe someone brought it back from a trip to the Atlantic ocean). Or maybe it can take fresh or brackish water as well and came from one of the larger rivers.

Oh yeah I forgot quahog clams were the material used to make wampum. Cowries were also used extensively as money (in both Africa an Asia) but not much in North America (as we don't have all that many species, still fewer that are small.

It works like this. White rice WON'T grow, since it's been polished (had all of the germ stripped off of it) and is basically now just the starchy endosperm. But non polished rices, like brown rice still have all of their germ, and so are viable. You don't actually NEED the hull to be there to...

Not really, but I have never really TRIED seriously. I've only made attempts twice before. The first was when I was a kid and poured a package of Forbidden Rice (a black short grain kind with a seriously high anthocyanin count, originally reserved for the Chinese emperor), into a flowerpot and...

I think it was urban slang, like calling them "clams" or paper money "lettuce"

Only bit of news is that, the night before last, I was picking over my container of African rice (Oryza glabberina) and noticed there are actually two kinds in there, short grain (most) and long grain (a few). I pulled them apart and, for a while thought the stuff might have gotten...

Something like this actually occurred in real life. A home appliances company did an advertisement offering air conditioners for "199 bananas" (assuming people would understand the slang for "dollars"). But a lot of people showed up with 199 ACTUAL bananas, and, when they turned those people...

Well I can think of a few. For one, the cleaned seed takes up less space (since all of the dross is gone) Second, cleaning allows you to check that no OTHER seeds have gotten mixed in (like weeds). And third while it is possible for the vegetable matter to turn into mulch, it is equally...

The forecast today threatened frost tonight, so I brought everything in. That actually included the mung bean with the super size pod, I dug it up as best as I could, added it to the wild pot, and watered it in. Hopefully, that will get it to keep going (or failing that, make it last long...

Reminds me of a residency complex I see when I go to the Flushing Chinatown called Bland Housing.

More winding down. I pulled all of the common beans plants yesterday. In theory, they MIGHT have made some more seeds, but, given how many leaves they had lost, the odds were that all pods would abort before maturity, so it was better to take them down now. Took down most of the mung plants...