I went to Portland this past week. It was a nice break from the country but I love following those rolling hills home; counting cows and finding old granny apple trees by the side of the road. Teen is taking a photography class at the Maine College of Art on the weekends so we took him down for the class. Hubby busked in the Old Port and made enough money for our lunch! After picking up the teen we drove down to Kennebunk and stocked up on toothpaste at Tom's of Maine toothpaste outlet. We made a stop at Old Orchard Beach for a taste of salt air.
And then we stopped by Wendy's for a visit. She has a great place! Lively with ducks, chickens,rabbits and girls! If there is any question whether unschooling works, her daughters are proof positive that it does. While there I marveled at a mask her older daughter made out of cardboard and tp tubes. There was a whole discussion about how the tubes simulate ducks vision because of the way the are oriented. Wendy's gardens are still producing. She does a lot with her quarter acre and serves as a great model of what suburban homesteading should look like. Oh and she has a worthy pile of foraged acorns for flour too!
Planted: not much this week but I was hoping for a warm spell to move more stuff around in the garden.
Harvested: beet greens, kale
Preserved: 7 quarts of apple pie filling, 6 pints of pureed carrots, 6 quarts of chicken stock, 3 quarts 1 pint of pureed tomato, 4 quarts of frozen peppers.
local foods: tour de farm
waste not: more of the same. composting, recycling, making cider vinegar from apple scraps
manage reserves/ prepped: stocked up on toothpaste. Bulk food order which included: molasses, olive oil, canola oil, chocolate chips, kidney beans, elderberry cough syrup, tea, peanut butter, pasta.
Eat the Food: Homemade macaroni and cheese, Rice and bean burritos with homemade tortilla, chicken soup with carrot puree, apple custard pie, homemade yogurt.
4 comments:
You're the second person that mentioned eating acorns so I'll just have to show my ignorance and ask you.. is all acorns eatable? the reason I ask is when I was a kid growing up my mom always told me to NOT eat them because they were poison.
You can make a flour out of acorns. First collect acorns, crack them like a nut, they need to soak in water that is rinsed every day for a few days in order to leach the tannins out of them. Then you dehydrate them in the oven and grind like flour. Acorn flour can replace corn flour in recipes.
if you try this I would research other sites for more specific instructions but what I describe is the general gist of it.
Your blog is Over The Top Congrats!
I love the idea of flour from acorns! I recently discovered almond flour and love to make cookies with it. I bet acorn flour would make a nice, hearty bread or something! Thanks!
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