Ending and Beginning

I added half a cup of our stored wheat berries to a quart jar, got them wet, drained off the excess water and put them on a windowsill. A couple of days later, most of them were sprouting. I ate some for lunch today, and they’re really good.

Seeds of any kind never fail to amaze me, but seeing the hard, dry wheat that we’ve been grinding into flour turn into little plants is practically miraculous.

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