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burkinabe

On the changing seasons, mentalities, my cat

Aug 10, 2006 13:32

You cant see my house from the road anymore. The millet fields have completely obscured it. Rather a stark difference, all green and lush and somehow feels like an unkempt arid jungle ( Read more... )

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Millet (not cotton) gin anonymous March 11 2007, 22:44:56 UTC

On August 10, 2006 you wrote:
I was watching the kids in my family smack the millet from the husks today, thinking about how work intensive millet is, they have to do so many steps to get it to the point where it is edible. Is there a millet gin (like a cotton gin) in existence? Is that a stupid question?

Are you interested in a 'millet gin'?

Do the men store millet candles in those mud huts you see in pictures? Or do they 'thresh' the millet (separate the seeds from the stem of the candle) before they put it in those mud huts?

Thanks,

Rolfe Leary
St. Paul, MN

millet gin anonymous March 12 2007, 14:45:24 UTC

Hi Joelle:
Here is my e-mail: raleary@comcast.net .
I don't know how to do all this fancy stuff you guys are doing with blogs and all.

I volunteer with an NGO in Minnesota. We are developing a simple pearl millet
thresher -- but I love your describing it as a 'gin'. Great idea. Will you sell that
name to me?

Could you sometime describe all the steps they go through to thresh and prepare
millet for eating.

I've e-mailed some with another B.F. PCV, Laura C., about moringa leaf grinding.

Talk to you later.

Rolfe