I haven't poked my head back in this thread for a couple weeks and missed your question. Sorry about that.
hazelnut said:Dave, do you eat the purple hull and Austrian Winter peas as well as use the plants for green manure?.
We definitely eat the purple hull peas. You pick them when the seeds are full size but before they start to dry. The color of the hull indicates the right time for harvest. Once you harvest and shell them, they are put in ziplock bags and frozen until later use. We like to cook them in a pan with some bacon. There are numerous recipes online for the right way to cook these and they are all good.
As for the Austrian Winter Peas, the children will graze on them and I'll nibble on a few of them. We don't harvest and bring them to the table, though.
Rick, that's a good description of the A-Frame. The west side of our hill is entirely in swales that I made using an A-Frame level I built.
