Friday, August 06, 2010
Sunflower Harvest...
The Sunflowers were ready to harvest, tonight, so I snipped them off, cleaned then up, and brought them in to dry. They will dry for two weeks, and then I will brine them overnight, and roast them. The recipe is in the archives, but I will repost it when I roast them in two weeks!
I am still enjoying the last of last year's Sunflower seeds. Yummy!
As you all can tell, I am slowly working back to my usual bloggy boringness of Food Preservation, Gardening, and Permaculture self-sufficiency, and emergency preparedness. My main interest in the Oil Disaster is quite simple-- Southwest Tennessee's weather is 100% controlled by the Gulf of Mexico. We're at the outer edges of it's convection currents. It's why I have oil sheen in any vessel that holds water outdoors. It gets hauled up the air currents in the Gulf, transported up and Northward, until it gets heavy, and settles.
My gardens are in a tough state right now. I'll have to do a lot of work this weekend to try to get things right out there. Since the sheen started raining on my area, everyone I know around here are complaining of weird crop damage. Everything is in distress from the heat and mystery illness.
I am probably going to rip up most of the garden beds this weekend, and replant for Autumn and Winter. I'll need to add lots of fresh composts and soils.
Also, I have LOTS of friends on the Gulf Coast, and because I have ample space, I opened my place to them in the event that everything went to shit, and they needed to bug out. I still recommend they leave. That water, and everything that is still living in it is going to remain toxic for years. Personally, I won't ever eat Gulf Seafood ever again, I suspect.
In twenty years, I'll be 62. Perhaps I'll think about it then.
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Labels: Food Independence Challenge 2010, Food Preservation, Oil Disaster
