You can
register online for
South Georgia Growing Local 2014.
Seed saving, composting, rain water collection, fruits, vegetables, textiles, goats, chickens, bees, and policy, plus Friday Farm Tours, dinner and a movie!
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Early registration extended to January 15th! –South Georgia Growing Local 2014
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!
Continue readingFlorida 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.
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!
Popcorn
This morning at
Valdosta Farm Days,
red grits, blue grits, and popcorn of many colors:
blue popcorn:
Continue readingJanisse Ray wins Sustainable Literature Award
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food,
won the prize for Agriculture in the Sustainable Literature Awards,
according to
the Santa Monica Mirror, 11 September 2013.
From the book:
“If you haven’t heard what’s happening with seeds, let me tell you. They’re disappearing, about like every damn thing else. . . . But I’m not going to talk about anything that’s going to make us feel hopeless, or despairing, because there’s no despair in a seed.”
Other awards for The Seed Underground:
Gold Award of Achievement for Best Book Writing from the Garden Writers Association
Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner: Green Living
Booklist’s Top Ten Crafts and Gardening Books of 2012
American Society of Journalists and Authors Arlene Eisenberg Award for Writing that Makes a Difference
American Horticultural Society Book Award
Silver Award of Achievement from the Garden Writers Association
From the publisher: Continue reading
Science that’s proven safe by not the very same companies that stand to gain by its approval –Rachel Parent
14 year old Rachel Parent destroys a pro-Monsanto-GMO TV host
on every point, from science to his ad hominem attacks against her.
He twists, he turns, he avoids admitting when he’s defeated, and he loses
bigtime.
No summary can do this justice.
Mat Agorist posted for Realfarmacy.com 30 August 2013 about the CNBC Lang & O’Leary show of 31 July 2013, 14 Year Old, Rachel Parent, Anti-GMO Activist, Destroys Establishment Shill, Kevin O’Leary, On Air
Meet Rachel Parent, a 14 year old activist, who knows her stuff! This brave girl should serve as a role model for all teens. If 10 percent of children had this girl’s drive and knowledge, we wouldn’t even be having this debate right now.
In this video Ms. Parent braves the establishment hack, Kevin O’Leary, and does outstanding. O’Leary hammers out the industry talking points like the good shill he is and Ms. Parent slams each and every one. Bravo Rachel Parent, thanks for doing what you do.
If you like the work of Rachel Parent and want to help, please visit her website at http://www.gmo-news.com.
Here’s the video:
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