http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/mesquite-meal-fest Three Star Owl clay studio Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:16:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/mesquite-meal-fest/comment-page-1#comment-19520 Allison Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:43:42 +0000 http://threestarowl.com/?p=6203#comment-19520 Shadoza -- Indigenous people used grinding stones, but mesquite pods are very very hard and I understand your best bet to get the most usable, nutritious mesquite meal is to grind with a hammer mill. The folks who do these public millings are called Desert Harvesters in Tucson AZ: http://www.desertharvesters.org/calendar/ I would start by looking at their website for detailed info about harvesting, drying, etc. Their millings are over for the year, but are for the most part in and around southeastern Arizona, if that's convenient to you. They also might be able to give you contact info for hammer millings in nearby states. We're really enjoying cooking with our mesquite meal, so I encourage you to follow up! Good luck. Shadoza — Indigenous people used grinding stones, but mesquite pods are very very hard and I understand your best bet to get the most usable, nutritious mesquite meal is to grind with a hammer mill. The folks who do these public millings are called Desert Harvesters in Tucson AZ: http://www.desertharvesters.org/calendar/ I would start by looking at their website for detailed info about harvesting, drying, etc. Their millings are over for the year, but are for the most part in and around southeastern Arizona, if that’s convenient to you. They also might be able to give you contact info for hammer millings in nearby states. We’re really enjoying cooking with our mesquite meal, so I encourage you to follow up! Good luck.

]]> http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/mesquite-meal-fest/comment-page-1#comment-19497 Shadoza Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:49:41 +0000 http://threestarowl.com/?p=6203#comment-19497 I'm going to have to try this out. Where I live we have thousands of these trees, but I am not close to Phoenix. Do you know how someone that doesn't have access to a hammer mill can grind these up. I’m going to have to try this out. Where I live we have thousands of these trees, but I am not close to Phoenix. Do you know how someone that doesn’t have access to a hammer mill can grind these up.

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