Early registration extended to January 15th!
Update 2 January 2014: Or pay online.
You can sign up here to see the goats, bees, chickens, ham, eggs, fruits, seeds, textiles, rain, and sun, and let’s not forget the worms!
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Florida Goats at South Georgia Growing Local 2014
It’s not just for south Georgia:
from Madison County, Florida, Julia Shewchuk will talk about her
goats of
Serenity Acres Farm.
Here’s Wayne and Julia’s welcome to Serenity Acres Farm:
We are a small farm in Madison County Florida working toward the big goal of bringing you
locally grown products and farm raised products without the use of major pesticides, hormones and genetically modified components.
Our philosophy is simple: Grow and raise it locally and then offer only the freshest and best of what we produce.
The goats appear about a minute into this video, with milking about 2 and a half minutes in: Continue reading
South Georgia Growing Local for Christmas
How about a registration for
South Georgia Growing Local 2014
as a Christmas gift?
Have fun and support the local economy on the Farm Tour (citrus, sheep, olives, and row crops) Friday 24 January 2014, plus also dinner and a movie.
Learn a lot, eat well with the local community at the talks Saturday 25 January 2014, about animals, orchards, gardens, health, farmer experiences, and policy.
You can register using this form.
And you can join events on facebook so everybody can see you’re going.
Here’s the conference flyer for more information: Continue reading
Planting rye
Here’s
a video playlist:
Videos by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 20 November 2013.
Roundup and gluten sensitivity
Likely effects of dousing 90+% of all corn, soybeans, peanuts, and cotton grown in Georgia (and elsewhere) in Roundup and other toxic chemicals, often drifting onto other people’s land, schools, shops, and churches. It’s not that hard to grow the same crops without those poisons and without the toxic seeds that require them; not that hard and more profitable.
Yes, I know Jeffrey M. Smith is not a biological scientist or medical doctor. But many of the sources he cites are.
Posted by MyScienceAcademy 29 November 2013, GMOs linked to gluten disorders plaguing 18 million Americans – report
The IRT release also indicated that glyphosate, a weed killer sold under the brand name ‘Roundup’ was also found to have a negative effect on intestinal bacteria. GMO crops contain high levels of the toxin at harvest.
“Even with minimal exposure, glyphosate can significantly reduce the population of beneficial gut bacteria and promote the overgrowth of harmful strains,” the report found.
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Pine trees changing leaves
Fall in south Georgia:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 5 October 2013.
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Greens in the winter garden
Gretchen in the greens:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 24 November 2013.
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Sand Hill Crane
South Georgia Growing Local 2014 – Registration Open!
Update 2 January 2014: Or pay online.
Update 31 December 2013: Early registration extended to January 15, 2014!
Registration is now open for the South Georgia Growing Local 2014 Conference
This two day event will begin with farm tours on Friday, January 24th ($50 and includes lunch). Dinner and a movie ($5), on Friday evening is sponsored by the Lake Park Chamber of Commerce. The Saturday conference ($40 and includes lunch) will be a multi-track day, filled with informative talks about local growing, homesteading, multi-generational learning, and more.
The Saturday schedule currently includes the following: Continue reading
South Georgia Growing Local 2014
What has about 300 heads and eats really well?
A local agriculture conference coming to Lowndes County 24 January 2014.
South Georgia Growing Local 2014 is a local food conference for growers, consumers, homesteaders in South Georgia. Farm Tours 1/24 — Conference 1/25
You can like the
facebook page
and join events there
for the conference itself on January 25th
and for
the farm tours on January 24th.
Agritourism has come to Lowndes County!
This is one reason a wide variety of organizations, including two Chambers of Commerce, are supporting this conference:
it will fill hotel rooms.
Even more, it’s about longterm local economy through growing and buying food right here in south Georgia and north Florida.
All that and it tastes good, too!
