{"id":48,"date":"2007-10-29T14:50:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T00:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=50"},"modified":"2007-10-29T14:50:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T00:50:53","slug":"cover-crop-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2007\/10\/cover-crop-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover crop seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of my cover crop experiments have grown up and produced seeds.  I harvested the tops from the flowering <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sorghum\">sorghum<\/a>, and the dry pods of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pigeon_pea\">pigeon peas<\/a>.  Both are nutritious, and the sorghum might be a good food for the chickens, although there is just enough here to use for seed.  Pictures of the harvest table, sorghum, pigeon pea pods, and pigeon peas:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Farm2007Q4\/photo#5126916391173037602\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.google.com\/bdiscoe\/RyZ3S1D_HiI\/AAAAAAAAAO4\/iu6dxGF8Nww\/s144\/DSC02022_1600.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Farm2007Q4\/photo#5126916348223364594\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.google.com\/bdiscoe\/RyZ3QVD_HfI\/AAAAAAAAAOg\/guF0NX_pIUM\/s144\/DSC02017_sorghum.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Farm2007Q4\/photo#5126916361108266498\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.google.com\/bdiscoe\/RyZ3RFD_HgI\/AAAAAAAAAOo\/Ns-iruoxeZU\/s144\/DSC02018_pigeon_pea1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Farm2007Q4\/photo#5126916373993168402\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.google.com\/bdiscoe\/RyZ3R1D_HhI\/AAAAAAAAAOw\/sv5SA05C9NA\/s144\/DSC02021_pigeon_pea2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It takes a lot of time to shell those pea pods by hand, probably more than two hours for what you see on the table (although it&#8217;s fun).  Other folks say they just stomp on the brittle shells (after they&#8217;re really dry, i guess) then separate out the peas from the chaff, but i didn&#8217;t try that.<\/p>\n<p>I did try feeding a head of sorghum to the chickens as-is.  They just looked at it, quizzically.  When i stripped the grains off with my fingers and threw them on the ground, then the chickens happily ate them.   I&#8217;ve updated the <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/chickens\/\">chicken food notes<\/a> with more about sorghum as a possible chicken food we could grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of my cover crop experiments have grown up and produced seeds. I harvested the tops from the flowering sorghum, and the dry pods of the pigeon peas. Both are nutritious, and the sorghum might be a good food for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2007\/10\/cover-crop-seeds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-crops","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}