Well, I seem to be in all natural form today. No, I am not referring to my appearance; but, rather making all natural foods and stuff today. I began my morning by checking the progress of my granola in the dehydrator (it is all natural with an assortment of soaked nuts, almond meal flour, organic applesauce, spices, coconut, oats, liquid vanilla cream stevia and coconut sugar. It smells awesome. Since most of it was dry, I turned it over (off of it's little holding mat) and set to trying to dehydrate some raw-milk Kefir along with it...on a separate tray. I then started a new batch of milk Kefir (I only use raw milk in my house {just FYI}) and have revived my water Kefir grains. Gotta get another drink going on to help get me off of sodas. I'm not too much on the sugar/sweet of sodas, I just really love the bubbly. Gotta make sure I get all of the Candida cleared out of my system once and for all; so, I am really trying to be good.
In addition to the kefir and granola I am also soaking some unsweetened coconut (I would prefer raw and fresh; but, I would eat all of it if I had a fresh one...besides, I haven't had good luck with getting a good coconut here lately...beyond that, the dried is just so much easier) that I am going to use to make homemade coconut milk so that I can experiment with making coconut yogurt (with my kefir as the culture--so it will NOT be dairy free).
I have also gathered some redbud seeds (mainly for my hubby because he loves the way they flour; I have to say that I do too). I have tried to germinate them in the past with no success. This time I'm going to try to do it close to the same way you sprout grains with the exception that I poured boiling water over them...and that they will sit in this water for 7 days without refreshing or pouring off any...and then they will get a bit of cool/cold treatment. So, I guess the only way this process is close to sprouting grains is that they will sit in water for a period. Most seeds I sprout by putting them between sheets of moist paper towels and letting them sit in a zip top bag with small holes popped in it.
So, it would seem that I really need to get my little indoor greenhouse set up and placed so that I can begin work on seeding other seeds I've gathered. I was just telling my Love that it's that time of the year when I need to start keeping a little bag with me at all times so that I can gather seeds from trees/bushes that I like. I have quite a little store of seeds going on as it is; but, not all of them have been successful. I do have 2 Japanese Orchid Trees that seem to have survived our weird winter. I haven't read up much on these trees; but, I have noticed by observation that if the leaves die new ones will not sprout in that place...they only come out on new limbs...but, typically they do not drop their leaves if the temp. is right. I have a bundle of 2nd year lilies going in a pot out front (had to remove only one bulb that rotted over the winter) and a batch of sproutlings that I put out of house yesterday to get fresh air and direct sunlight (they've been in their own little greenhouse since sprouting before Christmas). I have a ton of seeds from my parent plants (amaryllis) and some seeds from a newcomer I obtained last year. I am going to try again to see if I can get any of the newcomer seeds to sprout as previous attempts ended in fluffy mold (apparently they don't sprout the same as my amaryllis...which would tend to make sense as the seeds are so vastly different). It shouldn't be long before my parent plants start to bloom...I have already gotten many new leaves shooting up. That means that it will not be long until my daughter rolls her eyes at me for force pollination (she screams at me to stop having sex with the flowers in the front yard). I could avoid all of that if........if, I was able to acquire some Blue Orchard bees. They can be rather expensive to start up; but, I would so totally love to give it a go! I'm sure all my flowers and bushes would love it too!
With that said, I need to eat some breakfast, that my Love has so lovingly prepared, and get to work thinning out my lilies and planting some new posies.
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