Yep, I love the new avatar as well.

great podcast!

One of the kids mentioned amaranth....I grew some last year but had a wretched time trying to harvest it. I'm not sure if it was too early or if I didn't plant enough. Anyway, is there a trick to growing this plant? I'd love to try again but I'm kinda disappointed.

We harvest it just as it is starting to produce the seeds. You can shake it a bit and some seeds will fall out. So take the heads and put them in a 5 gallon bucket and set it in a dry place out of the sun. Over the next few days the seeds will finish ripening and you can then shake the heads into the bucket and the seeds will rain down. Then sift and winnow as usual and you'll be all set!

I know, I know, I'm late to the party but kept putting off listening until I had ample sit down time so I could thoroughly enjoy it. (Ended up listening to some last night and finished off with a "Morning Coffee With the Whitinger's".)

Great podcast, Katie, Jon, and Abigail! Oh yeh, and you, too, Dave! :>)

It seems to me like ya'll are well on your way to being bona fide growers, seed savers/sellers, and marketers. Rock on! - as the young folks say. (Or do they still say that nowadays?)

It's great to hear ya'll discovering the different plants you're growing...from zipper cream peas (yummy!) to Butternut squash and pumpkins to beans and tomatoes, etc. And feeding the soil with goodies, too...manure, worm castings, even the zippers will feed the soil so there's a win-win situation, eh? Wishing you the best garden season ever, and lots of fun while doing it.

Ya'll done good!
Shoe (who should'a had about five more children, all of them like the Famous Whitinger kids!)