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For those of you who are keeping up with our little wheat project, we harvested our trial plot this past week. Took about . . . 7 minutes. LOL
Here are a couple of pictures and a parable "come to life."

Yep, this is it. Our entire wheat crop for 2008:

Here I am using the latest in harvesters: a pair of scissors. We stuffed the wheat stalks into a big garbage sack for hauling to the West Side for threshing (another S&T sometime).

Look what I found growing in with the wheat! Boy, was I surprised!
Wheat on the left; "Tares" (AKA weeds) on the right.
I found these "tares" (weeds) around and mixed in with the wheat, but no where else in the area. Explain THAT! (It reminded me of the weeds in my corn patch that look just like baby corn plants).  They looked exactly like the wheat stalks until I looked closer and discovered they are shorter and the "heads" are not really heads, but fake. Amazing! The parable of the "Tares mixed in with the Wheat" took on new meaning. For sure you wouldn't want to try and pull them up while both are growing together. But now? When we thresh (AKA whack) the wheat, there will be no wheat grains from the "tares" and they'll end up with the empty stalks of wheat to be "burned" (well, not really. We'll compost them). But the idea is the same.

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Posted by rildapeel1

Wow very interesting!! I enjoyed your post and thanks for sharing with us. Blessings, rilda *U*

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Posted by CelticMom

Hunh - learn something new everyday. I thought they were the same thing, only one was stunted, until you explained the difference. And me a country girl, too, sheesh! lol

Thanks for sharing - I always enjoy seeing your homestead and its developments!

Have a lovely weekend,
Shani

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Posted by Anonymous

The tares remind me of facades, ornaments...all show and no substance type of analogies. Great visual with more background from you for the parable.

I guess your wheat crop didn't need a whole neighborhood threshing crew. Maybe next year. Hope you didn't get a blister harvesting it. I'm so glad you got to the homestead.

I showed Joy what Canada Girl's Show n Tell was about this evening.

Marie

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Posted by Anonymous

Wow very biblical post here! Tee Hee...check out the parables about the Tares in the Wheat. Your wheat looks great! Tina at Morningstar ( solidrock)

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Posted by Anonymous

Wow! I had no idea. Thanks for sharing.
Blessings,
Dawn

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Posted by justmestracy

Wow, I just love to make wheat berry bags! They are great for cramps, ear aches, and sore muscles. You can freeze them for an ice pack too!!! Where are you in WA. We are in Lind and have 20 acres outside of Creston. You have a wonderful Blog spot. Thanks,

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Posted by Mary/Canadagirl

I have LOVED hearing about your harvesting !! You are growing something we have no room for. [0=

I have noticed soooooo many times how gardening has shown me soooo many insights to scripture. I love how I am learning a lot from gardening. In the spiritual and practical.

Thank you for sharing with us !!

Blessings and ((HUGS)) my SSiC
In Him<><
-Mary

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Posted by Anonymous

It brings the scripture alive, huh?! I just love it when the Lord does that for us!! Takes a scripture we're very familiar with and makes it come alive in a new way!!! He makes it real and tangible for us sometimes!!!

I just love that!!!

Thanks for sharing this!!!
Robyn
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/sonoranstamper/

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Posted by Anonymous

Wow, seven minutes, huh? I have never actually seen a wheat crop or a tare before. In the south, we're into soybeans!
Pam

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Posted by Anonymous

Yep I was talking about Matthew 13...I just thought is was cool that you had such an awesome example of the parable. ( a great prop for the parable ) We certianly do not often know how the tares get into our lives and it was just a great illustration. I sorta missed your explaination about the parable as I was up tooooo early! Hugs!
From Eastons Bible Dictionary
Tares
The bearded darnel, mentioned only in Matthew 13:25-30. It is the Lolium temulentum, a species of rye-grass, the seeds of which are a strong soporific poison. It bears the closest resemblance to wheat till the ear appears, and only then the difference is discovered. It grows plentifully in Syria and Palestine.

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/solidrock/

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Posted by Anonymous

Wow! That was totally fascinating! I've never grown wheat before, so I for sure wouldn't know what a tare looked like. What a living Scripture lesson for the kids! It makes me want to grow wheat next year just for that in itself.

In fact, that is one of my (main) interests in gardening. I don't bake or can (as I've said a zillion times, I want to someday, I just haven't yet) but I love the fact that the BIble has so many parables about growing things (the seed, the soil, etc...) that I want to garden just so I can comprehend more deeply these analogies, and then pass this understanding onto my children.

The pictures of my kids and the tomatoes in the s&t, I was thinking as we were picking our "zillions" (I over-planted) of tomatoes, that verse about how the harvest is plenty, but the workers to harvest are few and we are to pray for there to be workers. It's amazing how Bible verses just pop into my head (and apparently yours, too!) while gardening.

You asked about the hay in our field...(s&t pictures)
That is an alfalfa/grass pasture. I am not an expert on this, but Dave and Don (s&t) told us when we moved here that it was the most perfect mixture of alfalfa and grass that they've ever seen, and that too much of one or the other can have a negative effect on nutrition for our animals.

First it gets cut, then it goes into those big bundles, and the next and last step, it's put into bales. That was a picture before the baling process. I absolutely love the whole process, but especially in October with the smell of burning leaves, the crisp air.

There are three (or four) cuttings. I've read about the advantages and negatives about each cutting (I'm guessing you have, too) and I usually pass on the entire first cutting (Dave and Don pay us for each bail -which before we had our own need for it (horses) was enough to pay the taxes (and then some) on the property. I've decided for next year that I should change my ways and take some on the first cutting because like I said in my s&t, if there's not enough rain (or to much and they can't cut) I'm left with apprehension of getting enough.

Thanks again for sharing your wheat pictures - I totally love this show and tell.
Antoinette

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Posted by JoAnn

Those are great pictures, and it's very interesting about the tares and wheat. Cool description.
You'll have to check out my post, not the current one, but the one before it. Let me know what you think. :)
JoAnn

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Posted by blessedmomof10

Loved the lesson in the wheat and the tares! It's amazing how the tares look so similar to the wheat and as you said.... you can' t pull them out until harvest time.What a great lesson to learn as you homestead.

Blessings,
gloria

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Posted by Anonymous

I love that they look and act like the wheat, no wonder the Lord says to leave them grow and He will do the separating. Oh Lord, may I always be real and genuine wheat!
because of Jesus, Bobbie

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Posted by Anonymous

Isn't that amazing how the weeds look just like the real thing intended for the patch? The resemblance is too strong to just be explained away by my pulling everything but them because of the resemblance......I think they know where to grow!!! HA.
bethanyrae

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Posted by Sunny

That gives me a whole new level of understanding for that parable! Thank you so much for sharing!

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Posted by MaLena

I love your blog site and can't wait for your next entry and an update.

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Posted by dawns7

I am really interested in growing wheat. How much grain does each square foot yield?

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Posted by Anonymous

Very interesting post! I can't wait to read about the threshing. We grind our own flour here from wheat kernals, but I haven't actually grown any yet. Think I'll have to check out a few other posts of yours, lol!

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Posted by ushappyokies

Just found your blog and have already learned so much. I'd love to know where you get your seeds?
Great blog!
Pam

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