Clay Oliver of
Oliver Farm, Pitts, GA:
Discussion on cold pressed oils and their benefits.
Should be attended by: foodies, health nuts, everyday gourmets
Come hear Clay at South Georgia Growing Local 2015, January 24th 2015, Pine Grove Middle School, near Valdosta, in Lowndes County Georgia.
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Christine and Angela Hagen of Hagen Homestead CSA will talk about
Cooking ideas and menu strategies featuring locally grown, naturally produced and passionately wholesome ingredients.
Who should attend: Anyone who likes to eat.
Come hear Christine and Angela at South Georgia Growing Local 2015, January 24th 2015, Pine Grove Middle School, near Valdosta, in Lowndes County Georgia.
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Chayote squash, feijoas,
bananas, Jerusalem artichokes, roselle, chestnuts and black walnuts,
kiwano melons, star fruit, grapefruit, Seminole pumpkins, papayas,
Japanese persimmons, and rice: all these can be grown in south Georgia,
says Bret Wagenhorst of Brighton Farms.
He will talk about those crops at
South Georgia Growing Local 2015, January 24, 2015, at Pine Grove Middle
School in Lowndes County north of Valdosta.
You can
register now.
There are many food crops that aren’t typically grown commercially in south Georgia/north Florida that can do well on a small scale. This talk will Continue reading
Saturday, January 24th at Pine Grove Middle School!
You can
register online or mail in the form.
Follow
the link
for seed saving, oils, herbs, corn, rainwater, fish, beekeeping, goats, chickens, hams, and more.
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This sums up both
Bill Gates’ sudden surge of
agricultural land purchases
and
the fossil fuel industry’s sudden surge of fracked methane pipelines:
“on a global scale, that the global problem, from the
perspective of European colonialists and European entrepreneurs, is
really how to transform the countryside.”
In both cases, we here in the southeast are just peasants
or backwards natives from the perspectives of the
the new colonialists as they try to transform our countryside.
So what if such transformation results in
dust storms
or
leaks, explosions, or
higher domestic natural gas prices?
The new colonialists would profit!
Jonathan Shaw wrote for Harvard Magazine November-December 2014, The New Histories: Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past. Continue reading
Apparently electric fence wire isn’t good to sling into a tractor tire.
The puncture was barely visible, but leaked completely down after a while.
Fortunately, Charles from Adel Tire came and fixed it.
After he set it on fire.
He explains why in the video. Continue reading
Gretchen picked this popcorn yesterday, popped some to test (yum!), and bagged the rest for Valdosta Farm Days 9AM to 1PM today Saturday 6 September 2014 at the historic Lowndes County Courthouse in downtown Valdosta, Georgia.
Pops either in a pan with a little oil (grapeseed oil is good), or stick it in a paper bag (I shelled that test corn) with a touch of oil and microwave it.
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We’ve got about 7 pounds of okra left over today after somebody couldn’t take it.
So if you want it, let us know, information@okraparadisefarms.com,
or comment on the blog or web page.
We also have okra chips.
Okra can be hard to find. Here’s an okra plant that I had just picked: Continue reading
Another Cosmos script Neil deGrasse Tyson read maybe he should have paid
more attention to regarding the situation with short-sighted
corporate monopolies misusing cherry-picked science to promote
their profits at the expense of all of us and the only planet we’ve got.
Talking about the fall of the ancient Mesopotamia civilization, the script Dr. Tyson read for Cosmos Episode 11, The Immortals, says: Continue reading
Mark your calendars now with two important dates.
SE GA Growing Local will be held
Nov. 8 at the Tattnall County High School in Reidsville. A Growing Local conference will be held
Jan. 24 at Pine Grove School near Valdosta. Gretchen Quarterman is lead organizer for that.