The Wickers took a field trip today to see how almonds are harvested. (We've always heard that they "shake the 'L' out of them" which explains the strange Ripon pronunciation of "a-mond")
First we went to the huller where Doug VanDyken explained how the nuts are hulled and sorted.
This huge pile of hulls is sold to the dairy farmers who feed it to their cows. (We were told that the almond is in the plum family and the hulls are apparently quite sweet.)
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Cows really will eat anything!! I cannot wait to tell my husband. There is a dairy farm in the southwestern corner of MI that feeds their cows rejected candy!
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