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On Monday a live wheat field, approximately one quarter of an acre in size, sprouted at South Street Seaport. The Wheat Foods Council brought what they're dubbing the “Urban Wheat Field Experience” to the area, and it's only up through today. You can learn about "the lifecycle of the wheat kernel, functioning mills, bread-baking, nutrition" and more...but mostly it just seems fun to frolic in.
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yeah it'll he hilarious when someone is running their hands through the wheat and gets bitten by a family of rats...hilarious I tell ya.
In a related story, a subway platform is being built in a field in Nebraska.
Moving all that material and equipment here for one day sounds very green of them.
This will be rather confusing to many Manhattanites who think bread and other food grows under plastic wrappers in D'Agostinos.
sarah vowell thinks wheat is sooooo laaaame.
"...but mostly it just seems fun to frolic in." — Awesome "reporting".
Sounds like the Wheat Foods Council has money to burn...
"the lifecycle of the wheat kernel"
you know, unless that wheat kernel happens to be and unwilling participant in a dumb publicity stunt and is subsequently thrown in a dumpster at the end of the day. idiotic.
ick,
but then with the economy in shambles milling our own wheat doesn't sound like a bad idea.
did you know that the mother flour at the san francisco based boudin bread company is 140 years old?
well, did you?
Tax cuts on wheat? or 100% tax rate on wheat imports? you decide what they were lobbying for
Why didn't they just take the government check to not plant this year?
Does it come with an omnipotent little boy who can wish you into the wheatfield if you make him angry?