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BB Food Prep and Preservation - straw badge

posted 4 years ago

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Food Prep and Preservation

For this badge bit, you will harvest and store grain!

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Minimum requirements for this BB:
- Grain - Do one of these things (Includes hulling/threshing and winnowing)
- Harvest and store 2 gallons of oats, wheat, barley, rice or rye
- Harvest and store 5 gallons of dry corn

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
- harvesting the grain
- threshing/hulling and winnowing of the grain
- storing the grain properly (meeting the above stated requirements)

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Mike Haasl

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posted 3 years ago

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I processed wild rice last week! It's not nearly as easy as corn... You have to harvest with a canoe, duck push pole and knocking sticks. Then the "green" rice has to be dried in the sun for a few days. Then you parch it over a fire. Then you "dance" on it to dehull the grains. Then you winnow and start eating. It's stored in a cool, dark place in a 5 gallon bucket. The lid was snapped on after the photo was taken