Forum Thermomix
Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Chit Chat => Topic started by: meganjane on November 15, 2009, 03:03:40 pm
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We'll be harvesting in a couple of weeks, so I can hold some aside and bring it to Perth in December when I come to do some Xmas shopping. It's not organic wheat, but it's still wheat! Better than buying flour....
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I would love to try some!
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I remember the Chrissie hols - we used to go to my grandparents farm and "help" with harvest (at least my dad did !)
Remember bagging and storing the seed wheat - guess that's a thing of the past. Does anybody remember wheat luggers ?
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Please Meagan ;D ;D that would be fantastic
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OK. I wasn't sure if anyone would want wheat that wasn't organic. It was sprayed, but only with fungicide, and that was well before it was in ear.
We're starting on oats today, so if anyone wants oats, I can bring some next week.
Today's harvesting is very different Thermomixer! Gigantic big machine that augers into a truck or a chaser bin then carted off to the bins in town. I'll post some photos when we get started.
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I would love some wheat too please as it is quite hard to source in Perth. I think the health shop sells it for about $6 for a smallish bag. How would we get it from you?
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Am keen on oats, too! I make Tenina's cereal every week at DHs insistence ;D.
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Megan as long as you're bringing some I wouldn't mind a little too if it's no trouble and you don't mind please.
Thermomixer, do you remember them sewing up the seed wheat bags? I think it was 4 stitches to a bag-quite an art form if I remember correctly. Also those heavy bags of wheat the farmers put across their shoulders and carried to the truck. It is no wonder they were exhausted at the end of the day. Today it is very different, although equally as stressful I should imagine. The weather is very fickle, not to mention wheat prices.
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Yeah and they had to create the little ears at each end of the bags to hold onto when lugging.
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Heheh, no doubt my DH's dad remembers that. These days the stress is the weather, the low prices, the risk of frost, the pests (locusts, ladybirds), the cost of freight, concerns about storage etc etc.
I just have to keep them all fed and ferry them around at all hours of the day and night. So, for me harvest isn't too bad really. Just the hassle of making three packed lunches and not knowing what time we'll be eating tea. At least with no daylight saving it won't be at 11 o'clock like the last three years!!
I'll bring some buckets of grain when I come in December and perhaps can leave it with one of you. Who's around Como/South Perth? I'll bring some oats to our Kings Park get together next week.
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Hey Meagan, are you coming into the TM office?? I would love some wheat and oats fresh off the farm...I would be happy to pay for them as well! Let me know! ;D
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Sure Tenina! Where's the office - Balcatta? I'll have to get Sarah the SatNav on the job, as I'm not too familiar with any place other than Como, South Perth, Applecross and Freo!
I won't have wheat next week, but hopefully will have some oats. I can bring wheat in early December.
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Oh I would love Oats and wheat, wonderful.
I live up in the hills so I'm happy to come meet you where ever when you come in to Perth. Should i bring a container of some sort to the park next week.. Looking forward to it :D
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Yep, bring a container. Hopefully, I'll be able to bring a couple of buckets of oats to Kings Park next week.
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Oh Megan I would be interested in both ;D please.
Tenina if Megan can't drop them off I can she could give them to me and the next time I come to Balcatta for a meeting or to collect a TM31 I can drop them off to you :)
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Oh Meagan, thank you so much for the offer. I'm having heart palpitations about finding my way there!! I'm not too good at driving in the city anymore! I'd love to go to the office, though, so I'll see how I go...
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Sounds great both 'Megans'...let me know what happens either way! :-))
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I don't need wheat but I do have a question.
I have access to unlimited supply of export wheat but have been concerned that it may be treated or sprayed?
It isn't organic but I have been using it to grind nto flour for breadmaking.
Any ideas what happen sto export grade wheat as far as treatments etc?
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If the wheat is to be exported it should be food grade. Usually only wheat that is to be kept for seed has 'stuff' put on/in it.
Please correct me if I'm wrong someone.
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Hey I just had a thought!! If the weather is bad next week for the get together....Maybe we should make the new venue Tenina's office lol and she can just whip up a quick little something for morning tea ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :o :o :o
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Now that sounds lovely. If her office is too small I'm sure we can fit somewhere. After all what is better than a whole group of Thermomix fanatics hanging round. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Plenty of room in her office, it is the test/training/cooking class kitchen at head office ;)
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reply to "Does any one in Perth want some wheat"
I asked a wheat farmer , from Victoria, what they treated the bulk silo wheat with so that the bugs don't damage the grain. He said they pump a non-poisonous gas into the silos. I also was concerned about the quality of the non organic wheat. Still am !
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Most farmers, not all, only put wheat into silos if they are going to use it for seed the next year. Although I now believe some are storing it on the farm to wait for better prices.
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Welcome achookwoman - hope you bring lots af extra knowledge to our little forum. :-*
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Yes welcome, you kind of snuck in there. How long have you had your Thermomix?
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As far as grain stored in silos, only seed grain may be treated. We don't treat our grain when we store it unless it's for seed. Export wheat may be treated, you would need to check where it came from. I would imagine it's fine.
If I had my druthers, I'd love our farm to be totally organic - just can't persuade an old farmer to change his ways!
Now, coming back to the wheat/oats/barley, I'll be bring lupins to Perth!! :D The oats has too much barley grass in it, so my darling DH is getting some lupins that we have stored for sheep feed - no chemicals!! Lupin flour makes great bread, apparently!
We sometimes feed lupins to the yabbies in the dams. They're incredibly sensitive to chemicals - one sniff and they walk out of the dams, besides the fact that we don't want to feed our sheep any chemicals either....
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Memories.........................we used to feed lupins to the coonacks.
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I've just been talking to my brother and he said lupin flour makes lovely bread and scones. Sounds exciting.
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Ohhh exciting..
At the risk of being crazy cheeky what size container shall i bring? ;)
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Hey Megan Jane...thanks to the other Meagan, I received your wheat and lupins today...cant wait to try them both. Thank you very much Meagans!! :D
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That sounds great - would definately be interested in the wheat.
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That sounds great - would definately be interested in the wheat.
Sorry Bel_Rocky, that post was from November. Meagan has only just now been able to get the lupins and wheat to Tenina.
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Bel_Rocky, I took heaps from Meagan and still have some. If you are going to the get together I can bring some over for you, it won't be a lot but enough to play around with and create.