A Little Fresh Food For Possible Hard Times In Ol Misery (Missouri)

May 1, 2012

For a number of years the weather has been so inconsistent in early

spring that usually there has been no apple crop for me. It would

warm up in March and the apple trees would bloom and then a hard

freeze ruined them, and the result was no apples that year.

But this year it got almost down to freezing after the March warm up

and the apple blossoms, but there was no hard freeze. Three of my

five apples trees are now full of little apples, about the size of

acorns. A fourth tree has a few little apples, and the fifth tree,

which was blown down maybe 8 years ago and regrew from the stump, has only a

very few.

Back maybe eight years or more ago, my apple trees would produce so many apples

that in the fall the ground under them would be covered with apples. Some of my

dogs liked apples and would eat them off the ground.

Thursday I cleaned out a jar a little larger than a quart and put

green lentils in it up to about a third of the jar. Now, Sunday, the

lentils take up about two-thirds of the jar and they have little

sprouts on them. I soaked them first in filtered water and twice a

day rinsed them out with more filtered water. I didn't cover the jar

but put it in a place out of the sun and covered it partly with a

towel. I didn't keep the lentils in the dark. The articles on

sprouting on the Internet I read say that lentils are easy to sprout.

I probably will try barley or wheat if I can get the seed from the

health food store. You have to be careful about buying much cheaper

grains at feed stores because they are not for human consumption and

often grown by Monsanto the giant corporation that grows enstein corn,

etc.

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