Yearly Archives: 2015
Prescribed burns
Gretchen and I burned some woods the last couple days. Here’s why we burn: longleaf pine unharmed, while small trees of other species (slash and loblolly pine, an especially oaks) are weeded out by the fire.
Click on any picture for a bigger one. -jsq
Day 1: Planted pines
Continue readingBig longleaf above the fire.
Why we burn
Those longleaf are unaffected, while small slash and loblolly pines and especially oaks are gone.
Registration open for South Georgia Growing Local 2016
Registration is open now for the annual conference on local food and local agriculture, South Georgia Growing Local 2016, to be held Saturday 26 February 2016 at Pine Grove Middle School, Lowndes County, Georgia.
You can register online or print a form and send it with a check:
follow this link.
On that same page you will find links to pictures, videos, and other material from previous years, as well as Continue reading
Mushrooms
What’s in that cypress tree?
Yellow Dog wants to know. Gretchen may know.
Carrots, cabbage, broccoli, and a few beets
Shelling red corn
Got to turn that big old crank
Got to spin that flywheel around
Got to shell that red kernel corn
So we’ll have some grits and corn meal.
Here’s the video:
Gretchen Quarterman, Shelling red corn
Video by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 13 November 2015.
-jsq
Corn, red and black
