Interesting look at the mustard seed
Written by ginaruby
Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 05:54 PM.
I researched online about the mustard seed. This is the site I got this from. http://dqhall59.com/ Check it out for yourself. I'm happy to say that the mustard seed is great in many ways thus from a tiny seed many great things come from it. Some food for thought.
According to archaeologist James Melaart the ancient inhabitants of Catal Huyuk in Turkey had extracted vegetable oil from almonds, acorns, pistachios, and crucifers (mustard family vegetables). This occurred during a time from about 6500 B.C. to 5500 B.C. Earliest Civilizations of the Near East, James Melaart, 1965.
The mustard grew in thick fields with other plants that provided excellent cover for the ground nesting partridges that are native to the area. Farmers sometimes destroyed nests that were in their fields as they tended their fields with machinery. In irrigated fields the birds tried to nest on high places above the puddles. During my April 2005 journey I discovered a chukar partridge hen and her new hatchlings above Bethsaida and got some photos.
