[at-l] Sprouting on the trail

[atrerunner@yahoo.com (ATRerunner)]

The ubiquitous 2-liter soda bottle is one option. Depending on how many
sprouts you want, bisect or trisect the bottle, clean inside of bottle
*very good*, stretch some nylon(?) mosquito or no-see-um screen material
(clean this thoroughly also) across the opening(s), leaving a moderate
depression in the screening material, and enough of an overlap over the
edge circumference of the bottle opening(s) so that you can ducttape the
overlapping screen material to the bottle. Some times i would cut the
bottle all the way through, and sometimes i would leave a half-inch
piece to act as a hinge. Either way, once you put your seeds in and duct
tape the bottle back together, add enough *clean* h20 to moisten your
beans/seeds, and put the cap back on. Sit back and watch your sprouts
grow. This is way more trouble than the vitamins in the sprouts are
worth, and the danger of illness may outweigh any nutritional benefit,
especially from some of the organisms that grow on the moist underside
of the duct tape. I guess you could tape the bottle back together with
some clear plastic tape. Anyway, if you have to have sprouts, that's one
way to do it. Almost forgot, you need to use an ice-pick, pointy-knife,
blow-gun dart etc. to punch a bunch of holes in the top third of the
bottle so your sprouts can respire. For natural-food calories i think
gathering and roasting the larvae of cerambycids is a better use of
time, but then, you could do both and have ceasar salad.

ATR



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