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'Shrooms, Tea & Pectin

2024-11-14

We collected even more Chanterelles, about another five pounds, but we dried some of these for later use. We also guess that the dried mushrooms would work very well for mushroom jerky at a later time, as the dried mushrooms would quickly and easily absorb the marinade. We will see.

The Cranberry Hibiscus plants in the gallon pots were still growing well for so late in the season (although they never matured enough to produce flowers). I had moved them into the hoop house next to the aquaponics to keep them from the freezing, or at least very cold, weather. As they were getting bigger, I decided to prune them and place the nicest pruned tops in the aeroponics unit, while I dried the rest of the leaves for tea. The Greenthread is still looking very healthy and has been moved into the workroom as well. The workroom no longer has any misting system, but a light unit is on a timer (about 12 hours), and a heater maintains about 60 degrees. Also a floor fan is set to turn on every half hour for 30 seconds, twenty-four hours a day. Watering is done manually. So far, most of the plants seem to be maintaining OK.
As the orchard apples were pretty mature and the raccoons wanted to feast upon them, we picked the apples from the trees in the orchard and stored them in a wheelbarrow in the barn to age a bit. Some of the apples that had damage or insects were kept apart and I cleaned them up to attempt to make some pectin out of them. Generally, you just cook the apple pieces until they are getting mushy and the liquid starts turning a darker color (cores and skins are fine). After that, the liquid is strained off from the apple pulp and set back on the stove to simmer (as in the first pic) and reduce by about 50%. You know you have pectin if you can get a bit of the liquid to gel in a puddle of rubbing alcohol as shown in the second pic.

I originally started freezing the pectin liquid in small muffin tins to preserve it for later use. But, as this was basically an experiment, I decided that I should reduce the size of the pectin and try to keep it from getting frost or freezer burn. So I placed the liquid in the dehydrator and dried it to make what is basically a fruit leather (you can see some of the frozen 'pucks' in the first pic). Fruit leather pectin. Huh. A sheet of leather is being rolled up in the second pic. Well, no reason that shouldn't work, right? So it dried quite nicely and rolled into quite beautiful fruit leather roll-ups (third pic)! After processing all of the liquid, I then froze the roll-ups for later use. Blow up that third pic. They really turned out well. Looks like polished amber or gold flakes within.

'Shrooms, Tea & Pectin

2024-11-14

We collected even more Chanterelles, about another five pounds, but we dried some of these for later use. We also guess that the dried mushrooms would work very well for mushroom jerky at a later time, as the dried mushrooms would quickly and easily absorb the marinade. We will see.






The Cranberry Hibiscus plants in the gallon pots were still growing well for so late in the season (although they never matured enough to produce flowers). I had moved them into the hoop house next to the aquaponics to keep them from the freezing, or at least very cold, weather. As they were getting bigger, I decided to prune them and place the nicest pruned tops in the aeroponics unit, while I dried the rest of the leaves for tea. The Greenthread is still looking very healthy and has been moved into the workroom as well. The workroom no longer has any misting system, but a light unit is on a timer (about 12 hours), and a heater maintains about 60 degrees. Also a floor fan is set to turn on every half hour for 30 seconds, twenty-four hours a day. Watering is done manually. So far, most of the plants seem to be maintaining OK.







As the orchard apples were pretty mature and the raccoons wanted to feast upon them, we picked the apples from the trees in the orchard and stored them in a wheelbarrow in the barn to age a bit. Some of the apples that had damage or insects were kept apart and I cleaned them up to attempt to make some pectin out of them. Generally, you just cook the apple pieces until they are getting mushy and the liquid starts turning a darker color (cores and skins are fine). After that, the liquid is strained off from the apple pulp and set back on the stove to simmer (as in the first pic) and reduce by about 50%. You know you have pectin if you can get a bit of the liquid to gel in a puddle of rubbing alcohol as shown in the second pic.






I originally started freezing the pectin liquid in small muffin tins to preserve it for later use. But, as this was basically an experiment, I decided that I should reduce the size of the pectin and try to keep it from getting frost or freezer burn. So I placed the liquid in the dehydrator and dried it to make what is basically a fruit leather (you can see some of the frozen 'pucks' in the first pic). Fruit leather pectin. Huh. A sheet of leather is being rolled up in the second pic. Well, no reason that shouldn't work, right? So it dried quite nicely and rolled into quite beautiful fruit leather roll-ups (third pic)! After processing all of the liquid, I then froze the roll-ups for later use. Blow up that third pic. They really turned out well. Looks like polished amber or gold flakes within.









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Find out about: America's (now the World's) Favorite Poison By Far!


“In order to save glyphosate, the Monsanto corporation has undertaken an effort to destroy the United Nations’ cancer agency by any means possible.”[10]

... " just four companies — Bayer, Corteva (formerly DowDuPont), BASF and Syngenta/ChemChina — controlled 75 percent of plant breeding research, 60 percent of the commercial seed market, and 76 percent of global agrichemical sales in 2019."[78]



Just gotta' LOVE glyphosate, right?????

Yes, the second link is old news, but not forgotten and more importantly, as the first link shows, not remedied:

Monsanto / Bayer's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health. Protect yourself and those you care about!

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php    

http://www.NaturalNews.com/031138_Monsanto_Roundup.html

[10] Foucart, S. & Horel, S. (2019, April 7). Monsanto Papers. European Press Prize. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/monsanto-papers/

[78] ETC Group. (2019, April 06). New report: Putting the cartel before the horse…and farm, seeds, soil, peasants. https://www.etcgroup.org/content/new-report-putting-cartel-horse%E2%80%A6and-farm-seeds-soil-peasants

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Video
https://www.naturalnews.com/NoGMO.html

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Music
https://oregonTruffleTryst.com/_MEDIA/JustSayNoToGMO-192.mp3 Song Lyrics

Song by Mike Adams, with spoken lines from Jeffrey Smith

I’m lookin at the food that’s in the grocery store
They say it’s safe, everybody eat more.
On second thought, I don’t really know if it’s made with those GMOs

So I’m lookin for the non-GMO label ‘fore I bring it home and put it on my table
I wanna know it’s verified so I don’t
Harm myself with genetically modified

Uh-Oh
They don’t want you to know
All the poison they grow
The corporate profits they show from those GMO OH

Those Frankenseeds that they sow
They’re gonna hurt us we know
It’s time we told ‘em to go, say GMO NO!

I don’t want eat poison, I don’t want gene mutations at my dinner reservations
it’s a food abomination what they doin’ to this fast food nation
They take artificial gene combinations
inject them in seed variations
so they can grow their Frankenfood imitations
while the side effects cause medical patients

Keep their profits alive while they
spraying all the food with name brand herbicides
and all the while they’re spreadin’ their lies
Monsanto (Bayer now!) destroyin’ farmers lives
and the FDA keeps it all going
saying it’s safe even though they all know it’s just
poison stealing away your life, and that’s what you eat with genetically modified.

GMO safety huh that’s a corporate myth
if you don’t believe me listen to Jeffery Smith
He’s the man with plan gonna do what he can
To help us all get those GMOs banned
But we need you to lend a hand
take a stand against this food scam
It’s a mission for the health condition worldwide
We don’t wanna live genetically modified

Don’t eat food unless you know what’s in it
Don’t believe the propaganda cuz the press will spin it
Affects everybody, we all up in it
Stand up to Monsanto (Bayer now!), tell ‘em oh no you didn’t

Reject Frankenfoods in the store
demand honest labels so we can be informed
We have a natural right to know
What we buyin’ Just say no to GMO

Before our farms start dyin’
Just say no to GMO

Those corporate crooks are lyin’
Just say no to GMO

This time we’re not complyin’
Just say no to GMO

We’re just not buyin’ it
Just say no to GMO

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