Morning Song Farm News

Morning Song Farm offers macadamia tours to the wholesale tour industry, and our signature "welcome to the farm" treat is a macadamia muffin that many have asked the recipe for. It's been perfected over the years, and I share it here: Ingredients: 2 large eggs 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 cup mashed banana 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 2 and 2/3 cups of unbleached all-purpose flour 1 cup of heavy cream 1 cup crushed macadamias 1/3 cup pureed raisons 1/2 cup hemp hearts Preheat oven to 350. Procedure: Cuisinart raisins and sugar and set aside. Don't try to puree the raisins later, as it doesn't work. Combine eggs, sugar/raisin mix, and oil, beat together. Then blend in banana and vanilla. Set aside. Combine all the rest of the dry ingredients. Combine the raisin/sugar/eggs with dry ingredients, and then add cream and nuts. Carefully spoon...

Now that Colorado has thumbed their collective nose at the Federal Government, farmers in that state are preparing land for the first hemp planting in this country for over 60 years. Hemp is a relative of marijuana, although the plant is said to offer a high right up there with smoking newsprint. So here's the thing: our Federal Government's response to the fact that there is a botanical relationship between the two plants (hemp and marijuana) is akin to hanging you because they think your cousin robbed a bank. Maybe that's good enough for government work, but the War on Sanity, AKA the War on Drugs has done a lot of harm to farmers, as we've watched our friends to the north in Canada happily grow the lucrative crop and then SELL the end result here in the States, while growing it ourselves carries the same legal liabilities and dangers as growing marijuana. Brilliant! There is a congressional effort afoot to change the Federal law; see:...