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Switching Gears

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Category: Sharing the Joy with Others | Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:04 am

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My daycare kids and I took down much of our sunflower maze, harvesting the huge heads of seeds as we went. I cut big lengths of the stalks for them to carry, drag, and otherwise play with. Then they helped me put them in the compost pile. After all that, we put our sunflower heads on a table in the sun to await further instructions! (I need to quick research how to properly dry and roast the seeds.) We will be roasting sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds this week. MMMMM!

Next to harvest will be the amaranth. They say you can pop it, as well as bake it or serve it like a porridge or even like a rice. I'll look into that, too. One of my new students is allergic to a LOT of things, including corn, so we may just have stumbled on a replacement for popcorn! We will be very careful to research it first, then try only a little until we know its effect on him. I can't wait to taste popped amaranth!

Fennel seeds are ripening nicely. Too bad the squirrels got most of the fruit, that would've gone nicely together.

I finally gave up on nursing the old sour cherry tree. It had been coaxed back, giving us quart after quart of cherries and still leaving plenty for the birds, but, as the last two years came and went, it became too much of a struggle. The canker had girdled the tree, so I hired one of my tutoring students to chop it down, just like good ol' George Washington supposedly did!

No regrets. This is all part of the circle of life...Yes I will compost anything I can't use in my wood stove!


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Jewell2009 wrote on Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:27 am:

I want to come and stay at your day care :) Your kiddos are sooooo lucky

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Netty wrote on Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:23 am:

I've never heard of popping Amaranth...tell me more!

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lulu1107 wrote on Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:38 pm:

Netty- I googled uses for amaranth and it said the seeds can be popped just like popcorn! I would imagine that means that we can at least do it the traditional way...in a covered pot with a little hot oil. I'll let you know how it all turns out!

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