camels, buffalos, kiwis and pigeons

[Guest guest]

I was listening to Living on Earth this morning, NPR's

environmental program. They had 2 great stories back

to back. The first was about a rancher in South Dakota

who's switched from cattle to buffalo. He's written a

book called Buffalo For The Broken Heart, all about

restoring the life on his farm by bringing back the

buffalo. The interview was really moving. Then they

had a story about camel milk! There was a scienteist

in Israel who wanted to try to improve cows by

studying camels, but soon came to realize that camels

were perfect for the climate and cows were never going

to be. So now there's a whole center that advocates

camel milk! It was a really cool story, with

descriptions of milking the camels (it's done standing

up) and what camel ice cream tastes like, and the

health benefits. The url is http://www.loe.org

I got a huge box of organic kiwi for FREE

yesterday--but don't know what to do with them all. I

can't just sit and eat fruit in that quantity or my

blood sugar will go insane. Anyone from New Zealand

out there? What can I do with them? Dry them? Jelly?

Any suggestions?

And I know this is WWOT, but I'm just too excited.

I have a small flock of racing homers, and they just

had their first baby! I didn't think they'd be able to

keep the egg viable in the middle of winter, but she

hatched out yesterday and she's still alive this

morning. The parents are really smart--the moment I

enter they pigeon house, they sit really still and

cover the baby completely. I don't know how to tell

them I'm not a predator! I just want to get a look at

the baby, I'm not going to eat her, Scout's Honor! All

I can see is that she's tawny brown and wiggling. It

seems like such a paradox, but I guess that's the

miracle--life is so fragile and yet it's everywhere.

Lierre

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[Guest guest]

I've seen kiwi jam. It's supposedly very good but it looked like frog eggs

floating in slime to me.

ine

[Guest guest]

Neat story about camels. Thanks!

> I got a huge box of organic kiwi for FREE

>yesterday--but don't know what to do with them all. I

>can't just sit and eat fruit in that quantity or my

>blood sugar will go insane. Anyone from New Zealand

>out there? What can I do with them? Dry them? Jelly?

>Any suggestions?

I'm pretty sure I read a post on this board awhile ago about

lacto-fermenting kiwis. Maybe you can find it in the archives on

. I'd bet you could make some very nice kiwi sauce/jelly, probably

without even adding any sugar, either.

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