Gretchen is pleased.
Category Archives: Okra Paradise Farms
The new dog bed
Brown Dog does not approve of Gretchen and Yellow Dog’s shenanigans.
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At Pinevale: South Georgia Growing Local 2017
New location with cooking facilities!
When: Saturday, January 21st 2017
Where: Pinevale Elementary School, 930 Lake Park Road, Valdosta GA.
Event: facebook
Thanks to Valdosta Board of Education for use of this facility at a reasonable rate.
See the web page, facebook event, or facebook community for updates.
Dogs, creek, beaver pond 2016-11-05
Yellow Dog and Brown Dog convinced Gretchen Quarterman to walk a log across a beaver pond.
Here are a couple of videos and there are more pictures below. Continue reading
Grits and corn flower: red, white, blue, and yellow
Gretchen with Okra Paradise Farms grits and corn flour fresh from the mill: in four colors, including the rare blue 2016 vintage.
Never a pesticide was seen by these grits, and yes they are Continue reading
Ripe Passionfruit
Four fruits grew on this vine, then fell down. The one in Gretchen’s hand we found caught half way down. It seemed to be ripe, so we tested it.
Skink 2016-10-17
Found this large lizard (at least seven inches long) in a large tub of water. He couldn’t seem to get out, so I set him on the side. After a while he went on his way.
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Dr. Elsie Quarterman, Plant Ecologist, at Cheekwood
A bench inscribed simply “Dr. Elsie Quarterman, Plant Ecologist” sits
under cedar trees in the herb garden at Cheekwood Botanical Garden;
appropriately for a scientist whose specialty was cedar glades.
She was involved with Cheekwood for many years, and was its Acting Director from 1967 to 1968. She helped establish the herb garden in which the bench sits. Continue reading
Passion Flower
Gretchen with a very long passion flower vine with a flower on top of a large outcrop of smilax vine. This is the sweet smelling smilax, which I think is Smilax smallii, aka lancleaf greenbrier.
The passion flower vine has a fruit, maybe where wildlife won’t eat it. Continue reading
Box of okra
Usually we sell direct to people who want okra, but this particular day we had an overstock, and it turned out both Farmer Brown’s and Carter’s did, too, so this 25 pounds of prime okra went to Second Harvest.
If you want okra, Continue reading