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Old February 3, 2013   #6
Fred Hempel
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I would buy from Wild Garden Seeds too. Will probably put in a row. Even if it is terrible as food it will add bird and insect habitat...

I used to also think that Corn was ridiculous to grow on a small farm, or in a garden, but then I discovered Flint Corn. When you can't buy something as good, a little extra work shucking is worthwhile (but it would be silly for us to try and sell it, at our scale).


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Originally Posted by habitat_gardener View Post
The French Vanilla variety from Wild Garden Seeds looks interesting.
http://www.wildgardenseed.com/produc...roducts_id=282

I've wanted to grow quinoa in my small garden for a while, and I'm not even sure I like quinoa! But when I think of growing grains, I recall Carol Deppe's discussion in her book The Resilient Gardener. She loves to process corn, but she says, "For many grains, it is the problems with threshing or dehulling that limit the grain's usefulness when grown on a home scale." She doesn't mention quinoa, though.

By the way, 2013 is the International Year of the Quinoa.
http://www.rlc.fao.org/en/about-fao/iyq-2012/
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