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Peanuts Bulk Purchase
McLemore Farms, Bob and Aquilla McLemore, Colony, Oklahoma, mclemore@hintonet.net or call 405 542 7077 Bob cell. Home 405 929 7328
We are going to dig and thrash peanuts within the next week and will have green peanuts (for boiling) ready to go ....mother nature permitting by Saturday the 27th. (2003). We will also have them for the next 3 to 4 weeks. We will also have field run dried peanuts for sale. Price will be the same.. burlap sack fulll approx 50 lbs. for $20. They are pesticide free. spanish and virginia (big ones) this year. Pumpkins are going to be ready and will have at OKC OSU market this coming Sat. 27th.
Bob McLemore tells me that about one third of the weight of these bags will be the shells (which make great compost material or if you have some animals you can grind it up and feed it to them), so based on a 35 pound bag, you'd get about 24 pounds of shelled peanuts for $20, or about 82 cents/pound. This is a better deal than the supermarket. You can use your wheat grinder (with cast iron burrs) to grind the peanuts into peanut butter, you could roast them in the shell, make Oklahoma peanuts (we'll come up with some recipes).
These are not organically grown peanuts, they did have some herbicide on them last April. But there's been no pesticides used on them at all, and they were grown west of Oklahoma City in Colony, Oklahoma.
Peanuts are an excellent basic food that, like wheat, stores well in the shell. Now's the time to get your peanuts for the upcoming year. There won't be another harvest until next October/November. Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming. Peanuts that you have candied, roasted, or otherwise "added value to" make great Oklahoma gifts for the holidays.
How much should you get? Well, if your household uses a pound of peanut butter a week, one bag would provide about 24 weeks of peanut butter. Three bags would get your through the year with some extra for other fun cooking and eating purposes. And that's just sixty bucks! 52 jars of peanut butter, at $1.79/jar from the supermarket, would cost you more than ninety dollars with tax! Plus these peanut dollars would go straight to the pockets of the McLemore family and the economy of Colony, Oklahoma, not some giant agribizness corporation with headquarters in Boston or some such place.
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