[Cob] Cob: grow-your-own thatch

[Amanda Peck]

But it might be fun experimenting.  My friends who are serious about bread 
say that they can tell the difference between store-bought and recently 
harvested home-grown wheat.  What they grew sounded like a sizeable garden 
plot's worth, but not a field's.

Also on that non-cob topic, you might look at the Fukuoka "One Straw 
Revolution" on the subject of growing ones own grains--non-cob especially 
because he thinks that the straw should be left to replace nutrients that 
growing the grain have mined from the soil and since he also double crops, 
it also acts as protection for the young grain.

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conversation between Ted and Marlin (snipped)

So I guess b-4 trying to grow a huge amount of thatch as wheat I'd want to 
hear that disputed (heard 10-15 year aprox life to the caps made of wheat)

Marlin
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Does anyone know how many acres of Wheat one would have to plant to thatch a 
medium sized cottage (say 900 square feet)

Ted

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