Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Debbie McDonald <lbirke1@yahoo.com>]

Yea, that is how I even knew they were there, I put them in a bowl to rinse and up they floated. Like I said, they were dead but no evidence on the food having been chewed so that made me more paranoid, what was on that food? that killed the bugs:). I just rinsed till no bugs floated and then did it several more times to be sure and maybe rinse off what ever was on it. I cooked some mixed beans with bacon and hamburger, never a thought;). I left a bowl of lentils with some water in it, fed some to the chicken last night with oatmeal, uncooked and she picked at it pretty good but this morning the lentils are sprouting. I made the wild birds the peanut butter, lard, oatmeal, corn meal, flour recipe and they don't seem too enthralled with it. There was sugar in the recipe but I thought "what?" and left it out, maybe that is why:).   

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From: Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Thu, February 11, 2010 1:10:46 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] Oops! Re: weevils in beans/lentils

Hey Paul, I forgot to trim that last post. Sorry.

I agree with Norma, even if I was in the post-Zumwalt dope-smokin' '80's Navy instead of WWII..
'Some of the best food in the world goes into a Navy mess deck. What comes out is a different story.'

Most of the bad stuff will float up, I think. I'd eat them with some kind of sauce, though...;-)
Hot peppers work wonders for worries about bugs...
If that doesn't do it, the chickens will eat them.

Dan C.
Belgium, WI