Before:
Before
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 15 July 2012.
After: Tomato, jalapeno, habanero, bird pepper:
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Zucca, Okra Paradise Farms, 15 July 2012
More than twice as wide as my foot:
More than twice as wide as my foot
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 15 July 2012.
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Okra @ Okra Paradise Farms 2012-07-12
Okra and corn:
Okra and corn
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 12 July 2012.
Bloom and okra:
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Gretchen with tomatoes from one day:
Gretchen with tomatoes from one day
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 12 July 2012.
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Advanced sheets-Field operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1917
What was your county like a hundred years ago, roads, houses, streams, ponds, and soils? Digital Library of Georgia in association with the University of Georgia Map Library has made available old soil maps from around 1910-1920 online in a viewer that can pan and zoom. Detail of Cat Creek Road, Lowndes County, Georgia in 1917:
Detail of Cat Creek Road
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Screenshot by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 13 July 2012.
The soils haven't changed much (Tf is Tifton A soil, for example), but the roads and houses have, and many streams have been dammed for ponds.
They seem to have all Georgia counties. Here's Tift County in 1910 and Cook County in 1931.
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Owed to Don Davis of the Lowndes County Museum at the 11 July 2012 WWALS Watershed Coalition meeting.
Largest U.S. declared drought disaster ever
It's not just us. More than half the country is in drought, and almost one third is in a federal disaster area for drought: the biggest ever declared.
Dashiell Bennett wrote for Atlantic Wire today, U.S. Declares the Largest Natural Disaster Area Ever Due to Drought
The blistering summer and ongoing drought conditions have the
prompted the U.S. Agriculture Department to declare a federal disaster area in more than 1,000 counties covering 26 states. That's almost one-third of all the counties in the United States, making it the largest distaster declaration ever made by the USDA.
The declaration covers almost every state in the southern half of the continental U.S., from South Carolina in the East to California in the West. It's also includes Colorado and Wyoming (which have been hit by devatasting wildfires) and Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Nebraska in the Midwest. However, it does not include Iowa, which is the largest grain and corn producer in the U.S. This map show the counties affected:
Look, there we are, right in the center of the red area in the southeast!
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A day at the market: Valdosta Farm Days 7 July 2012
Terry Davis picking corn:
Terry Davis picking corn
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 July 2012.
Okra, potato, pepper, plus cornbread muffins and collard seeds:
Early corn Planting —Alla Peek Quarterman
My grandmother wrote this around 1960, when she was around 77 years old. -jsq
I remember when corn in the fields was dropped by hand — 2 grains every two steps. Mule plow opened the furrow & children dropped the grains.
The first corn planter was considered bad — it was sure to keep the seed from sprouting!
My brother Patrick found this text in a notebook his aunt Elsie had kept.
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Tomatoes, Okra Paradise Farms, 26 June 2012
Picking:
Picture of Gretchen Quarterman picking tomatoes by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 26 June 2012.
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Baby pumpkin @ Okra Paradise Farms 26 June 2012
Yellow Dog with a pumpkin:
Yellow Dog with a pumpkin
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 26 June 2012.
Yellow Dog guarding a pumpkin:
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