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[unicornduke]

 Meal planning for this week

I want to use a roast I've got in the freezer, let me go check I actually have that right now. 

I've got my pick of a roast, stew meat, tenderloin and ground meat in my freezer. I've got sweet potatoes but unfortunately all my regular potatoes have sprouted and are very wrinkly. I'll have to pick more up when I visit my parents next week. 

Maybe I'll do a stew of some sort. 

oh dang I gotta get to the farmers market before it gets too busy. ugh. 

I also need to clean out the fridge, I've got leftovers that I left too long and now I can't freeze them becuase of dubious quality. 

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[dragonlady7]

Oh, there are two sites near me! Hull House is what confused me, because it is in Lancaster, NY, it just isn't the one named after Lancaster. They're the ones that sent the link to the place to buy the plans, and that Jean has offered to take me to visit. It is a 25-minute drive from my house.
The other one, where Jean has periodically worked, is formerly known as the Amherst Museum, and is now the Buffalo Niagara Somethingorother Village. She was in charge of the flax-growing there, I think, for some years at least; it's also about 25 minutes from my house.

She also told me to contact the curator at the Cooperstown Farmer's Museum, which is where as a child I saw a bunch of flax-processing demos, though the equipment wasn't on display anymore last time I visited, and I do plan to contact him at some point, but I'm going to ask my mom if she still knows anyone there too, because that's where they went to school together.
That's actually closer to Troy than here, though.
(If you've never been there, it is a good time. We used to go as kids and we'd also go to the art museum across the street, as a twofer. It's pretty cool. Gorgeous scenery!)
Mom bought me a little souvenir packet of flax seeds from the giftshop there a year or two ago and I misplaced it, but I bet I could get a larger thing of seeds from them if I really wanted. I do want to talk to the dude in charge, I bet he's got some insights.

And yeah-- you're right that seed-bearing varieties might not be ideal for fiber processing, but if I make the start of growing flax maybe that'll be something they pick up on doing. I dunno!

I watched this video on weed control for flax growing and am imagining I'll probably just have to get out there with a scuffle hoe, IDK. Or maybe we can do the no-till cardboard thing, maybe I'll convince Annie to do the flax as a border for the new area of flower gardens, which she's got under silage tarps now to solarize the grass. I think I have to go there and talk to her.
Flax needs to be planted, like... April?? I have some time to work this out.

[unicornduke]

Neato! Maybe I'll go down to Cooperstown, that sounds really cool.

April is about right for planting, with all the spring crops, peas, carrots, etc. They can take a light frost. There's some saying about 100 hours to germination, 100 days to harvest for flax, not sure how accurate that is. I think I pulled mine in July last year.

Weeding is going to be a big pain. I think I'm going to do mine in rows rather than broadcast because I hand weeded my little 10x10 broadcast patch (planted too thin) and holy shit was it a pain in the butt. The plants are so thin, they don't shade at all and they're such tiny tiny seedlings. I want to say they were a little slow to germinate but don't quote me on that.