{"id":983,"date":"2018-02-09T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T09:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2018-02-09T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T09:24:07","slug":"the-muntrie-harvest-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/09\/the-muntrie-harvest-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Muntrie Harvest begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some pictures of our first real experiments with harvesting and processing Muntries. There&#8217;s pretty good coverage right across the two blocks, ripening at different times, from January through probably to May, depending on how much hot weather we get. Here are the picked berries&#8211;even though they were picked in the same general area you can see here that the two batches vary in ripeness:<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"http:\\\/\\\/house.geoffwells.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/02\\\/09\\\/the-muntrie-harvest-begins\\\/\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery type-square\" data-original-width=\"840\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item\"><a border=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/dsc01672\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"968\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01672.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4608,3456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1517834083&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01672\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01672-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01672-1024x768.jpg\" style=\"margin: 2px\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01672-276x276.jpg\" width=276 height=276 title=\"DSC01672\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item\"><a border=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/dsc01673\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"969\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01673.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4608,3456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1517834090&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01673\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01673-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01673-1024x768.jpg\" style=\"margin: 2px\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01673-276x276.jpg\" width=276 height=276 title=\"DSC01673\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item\"><a border=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/dsc01674\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"970\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01674.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4608,3456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1517834097&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01674\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01674-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01674-1024x768.jpg\" style=\"margin: 2px\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01674-276x276.jpg\" width=276 height=276 title=\"DSC01674\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then they go through a dehydrator&#8211;this is just a kitchen design I bought on eBay, seems to do the job pretty well. We&#8217;re experimenting with it: working out how to make the drying process smooth as it seems to differ slightly through the vertical trays; and trying to work out how to tell when the berries are really dried, because any residual moisture will interfere with the next stages:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"http:\\\/\\\/house.geoffwells.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/02\\\/09\\\/the-muntrie-harvest-begins\\\/\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery type-square\" data-original-width=\"840\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item\"><a border=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/09\/the-muntrie-harvest-begins\/dsc01678\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"974\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01678.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4608,3456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1518174628&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01678\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01678-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01678-1024x768.jpg\" style=\"margin: 2px\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01678-276x276.jpg\" width=276 height=276 title=\"DSC01678\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item\"><a border=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/dsc01675\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"971\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01675.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4608,3456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1518171935&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01675\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01675-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01675-1024x768.jpg\" style=\"margin: 2px\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01675-276x276.jpg\" width=276 height=276 title=\"DSC01675\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item\"><a border=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/dsc01676\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"972\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01676.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4608,3456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1518171946&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01676\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01676-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01676-1024x768.jpg\" style=\"margin: 2px\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01676-276x276.jpg\" width=276 height=276 title=\"DSC01676\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And here is the hand-grinder I also bought on eBay&#8211;it&#8217;s designed for nuts and berries so we&#8217;ll see how it works. The plan at this stage is to produce fine grounds whose use in different products can be explored.\u00a0 Needless to say all of this a small-scale trial&#8211;if it works out it would all have to be scaled up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"http:\\\/\\\/house.geoffwells.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/02\\\/09\\\/the-muntrie-harvest-begins\\\/\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery type-square\" data-original-width=\"840\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item\"><a border=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/09\/the-muntrie-harvest-begins\/dsc01679\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"985\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01679.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4608,3456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1518204028&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01679\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01679-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01679-1024x768.jpg\" style=\"margin: 2px\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01679-415x415.jpg\" width=415 height=415 title=\"DSC01679\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item\"><a border=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/09\/the-muntrie-harvest-begins\/dsc01681\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"986\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01681.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4608,3456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1518204939&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01681\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01681-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01681-1024x768.jpg\" style=\"margin: 2px\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01681-415x415.jpg\" width=415 height=415 title=\"DSC01681\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the final (pre-processing) product&#8211;muntrie powder! It tastes very nice. It turned out that the hand grinder, although more picturesque, wasn&#8217;t as good as the electric coffee grinder, so for the time being that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll use. The sealed bags of powder are in the fridge ready for the next stage.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad, huh? A start, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot the hand grinder pic! Here it is:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"http:\\\/\\\/house.geoffwells.com\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/02\\\/09\\\/the-muntrie-harvest-begins\\\/\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular\" data-original-width=\"840\"><div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 835px; height: 1108px;\"><div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 835px; height: 1112px;\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/09\/the-muntrie-harvest-begins\/dsc01677\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"973\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01677-e1518137098623.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3456,4608\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-WX7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1518174602&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;6&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC01677\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01677-e1518137098623-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01677-e1518137098623-768x1024.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/DSC01677-e1518137098623-831x1108.jpg\" width=\"831\" height=\"1108\" align=\"left\" title=\"DSC01677\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some pictures of our first real experiments with harvesting and processing Muntries. There&#8217;s pretty good coverage right across the two blocks, ripening at different times, from January through probably to May, depending on how much hot weather we get. Here are the picked berries&#8211;even though they were picked in the same general area &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/09\/the-muntrie-harvest-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Muntrie Harvest begins!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}