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  • Hi Christine - Congratulations on your goals! I can't wait to hear how Thanksgiving turns out! As for Mesquite Beans... once you have harvested the beans (and they should be dry, brittle and snap when pressure is applied when they are harvested) the best thing to do is to lay them out on a sheet on a very hot, sunny day. Mesquite beans that get wet and then are packaged can develope a very toxic mold that we to avoid at all costs! Spreading them out in the sun and letting them cook in the 115* degree heat all day is a great way to do this. You can also your oven or a solar oven, it just tends to take more effort on your part with swapping out the beans. You can also bag them loosely in paper bags and let them ride around in the back of your car for a hot week, this provides an effect similar to a solar oven but your car might end up smelling like barbeque chips. :) Any of these ways work but we want to make that those beans end up dry. Then they should be sorted and any non-bean debris removed, this speeds up the wait time on milling day. Then they should be packed tightly in a food grade, water tight container. As long as the containers are air tight they can be stored outside, although I wouldn't recommend direct sun. If the buckets are water tight but not air tight, they should live inside where humidity is more controlled. hmm...I think thats it... drop me a line if you have any more questions! good luck!
    Heather
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