Does anyone in Perth want some wheat?

[meganjane]

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....

[Caroline J]

I would love to try some!

[Thermomixer]

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 ?

[faffa_70]

Please Meagan  that would be fantastic

[meganjane]

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.

[CreamPuff63]

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?

[Caroline J]

Am keen on oats, too!  I make Tenina's cereal every week at DHs insistence  .

[cookie1]

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.

[Thermomixer]

Yeah and they had to create the little ears at each end of the bags to hold onto when lugging.

[meganjane]

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.

[Tenina]

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!   

[meganjane]

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.

[Sinead]

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 

[meganjane]

Yep, bring a container. Hopefully, I'll be able to bring a couple of buckets of oats to Kings Park next week.

[Meagan]

Oh Megan I would be interested in both  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