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Laura Perry's avatar

I've been itching to grow quinoa. I'll definitely keep your experience in mind when I experiment with it.

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Roselle Angwin's avatar

Yeahhhh. I wouldn’t…But if you succeed, I do, or perhaps don’t, want to know ;-)…

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Markael Luterra's avatar

Interesting to find quinoa here in my cross-Substack explorations. I grow about 25-30 lbs of quinoa per year at a home scale, after growing 1000+ lbs per year at a seed company scale, and I have a little document with cleaning tips. Feet on a tarp (to thresh), a fan (to winnow), a shop vac (to de-husk), and a washing machine (to de-saponin) work wonders.

https://luterra.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Quinoa.pdf

I have also designed a winnowing machine though it's a bit above a home scale and I don't currently ship overseas, but quinoa is pretty easy to winnow once you get the husks off the seeds with the shop vac. (Remaining husks will come off in the pillowcase-in-washing-machine step.)

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Roselle Angwin's avatar

Oh hello and THANK YOU! Really useful; and you manage to process 25-30lbs a year yourself? Impressive.

I very much appreciate the PDF.

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Keith Walton's avatar

Great to see you back, and a rich read, as always. So glad you have swans - how I love them on the river here. Great news on the kiwi fruit. Can we now go back to calling it kwinowa?

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Roselle Angwin's avatar

Lovely comment, Keith. Thank you. As for the pronunciation, well - I'll follow your lead! ;-)

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Marg Roberts's avatar

I was ready to try to grow quinoa till I reached the end of the article! I’ll have another go at spinach. So glad to read about the swans. Xx

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Roselle Angwin's avatar

Yes, Marg! I suspect it might be like a (much less challenging) version of chidlbirth: by next year I'll probably have forgotten the travails!

Spinach, now, is a star on every front. And EASY! xx

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Jan Elisabeth's avatar

kiwis sound amazing. Quinoa sounds like huge labour!

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Roselle Angwin's avatar

Jan, I had been thinking - IF there are still some ripe ones - to make that for you and A when you come over. I won't promise though... Quinoa?? Spit. X

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Lisa Rossetti's avatar

What a wonderful discovery of those luscious kiwis!

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Roselle Angwin's avatar

Hello Lisa - oh it was! Hope you're doing OK now?

Just in case you want a second go, I shall be offering A Bowl of Clear Water again next month.

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Anne Dunford's avatar

I'll look forward to that sorbet recipe!

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Roselle Angwin's avatar

Thank you, Anne! It'll come.

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