Last fall I got it in my head that I'd like to try my hand at planting wheat. So Tom and C tilled an area about 50' x 75' and I planted Sonora Heirloom Wheat---a soft white wheat that's grown on the Central Coast of California and is perfect for pastries, etc. (Or so I read in a book somewhere.) What I didn't know at the time I was carefully dropping kernals into the ground 6" apart in rows 6" apart, was that I would be moving right about the time the wheat was ready to be harvested. So two days before our departure, the wheat decides it's ready...NOW! I have decided that there is no convenient time for either having babies or harvesting wheat and since I'm not one to let all that hard work go to waste, I found myself harvesting wheat BY HAND, in between packing boxes and cleaning and otherwise getting ready for The Big Move. I deserve whatever comes to me.
The wheat is now being stored in our big, red barn...waiting to become a tender, flaky pie crust.
Very cool! Glad you got the blog up and running. Hope to get mine going soon. when life slows down.
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