The Boy with Blue Boots

Guilt,Peaches, and Apples

Yes, it has been a while since I have last posted. Why? I am incredibly slow typer and sometimes it seems more work than fun but I am going to seriously try to remedy that.First off though, I need to take care of some LONG over due business. A while back Herrick Kimball circulated a documentary by Deborah Koons Garcia called The Future of Food. The deal was that if we saw the film we were to write about it in our blogs. After seeing the film, I was a little discouraged. The production was great but the content troubled me. It seemed to focus on the negative aspects of food production a little too much and not too much on the positives. Sometimes these films get me down. I think though that I need to see it again. It is worth checking out the web site.

Sprouting news; the first try at sprouting went well as I had previously wrote about. The main idea was to water the seeds over the fish tank and the seeds would help cleanse the water. They didn't. The seeds did grow well though. We then took out the fish tank and the aquaculture system. More on that next time. What we did next was to buy some flat plastic , rectangular storage containers and drill a ton of holes in them. The holes are for drainage. We placed the soaked seeds on them, spread out evenly, and watered about three times a day. We turned two pounds of dry wheat seeds into TWENTY pounds of forage. This happened in about seven days. I hope to post some pictures in the next day or two.

Chickens; The Whizbang Chicken Plucker is about 90% finished. I'm very excited.

Apples; We had the first taste of real apples last week. The orchard in the next town over is starting to harvest summer apples. They were so good along with their white fleshed peaches. I am convinced that ripe peaches were the fruit that tempted Eve in the garden of Eden.