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I learned recently that sweet potatoes are used for alcohol production. Oh boy, really ? My wine making experience was supposedly geared to growing and making use of a garden product. No, I didn't want to use grapes since there is so much availability, variety and sophistication in that...

That could serve as a very simple tool for distilled products!

❤️ @SPedigrees A couple of years ago, I read about the very early use of wild barley as food for humans. It now seems that there is genetic evidence that it was domesticated in 3 different locations, Middle East, Asia and Africa. Really, I have no knowledge of when beer making shows up in...

But, we would never have had .. . as abundant a supply of .. . beer!

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Interesting article about how foraging with repeated harvesting contributed to the development of agriculture. Evidence of the plants used, barley, pistachios and apples, was found by archeologists. Genetically analysis of tissue shows that this food was growing wild but the tools found are...

Curious: Are there other varieties of early cabbage that produce second heads? Nothing very special about Sunday Supper. We are having spaghetti using some of the last of the slicing tomatoes that were harvested green and have ripened. The "long keeper" that we often have in the gardens...

While we wait. Booker T & the MG’s 🔗 Groovin'

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Tangerines and cold cereal — Crispix & Fruity Cuties from Trader Joe's, with sliced banananana. That DW Fruity Cuties! BTW, she doesn't eat the sugary cereals so things like this are supposed to be at my end of the kitchen counter 😋.

I may have jinxed the weather — for the better :). After posting, I looked at the hourly forcast. The dailies look dismal but today, with a sunrise, the winds calmed and the sprinkles ceased! That's just what the WS said ... we have until nightfall and then the outdoor discomfort resumes...

Our weather, here on the western side of the Rockies at 48⁰N latitude, I will describe as "unpleasant." The wind gusts are above 30mph with these frequent smatterings of rain. This has continued and is expected to continue 🙄. Temperatures are staying above freezing, on a very short thermometer...

I was dreaming that I was moving some raspberry and strawberry plants to a community garden. Someone said that I shouldn't do that with perennials. I answered, "why not, I don't plan on leaving them here?" Yesterday morning's dream was that I had gone into the backdoor of a home and was loading...