Monday, September 28, 2009

Farming notes

On our recent trip to Spain I commented on the fields of scorched sunflowers thinking they were crop failures. Lo and behold there were the same fields in the Charente in France. Seems it is normal procedure to let the sunflowers dry and shrivel before harvesting and processing. You live and learn.
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