A talk instead of tours of the Pine Grove Middle School greenhouses this year.
The greenhouses have a fungus just now because it is too moist
in them because of the amount of water they had to put on
during the freezes. Therefore there will be no tours this year.
However Jeff and Tony will be happy to give a talk.
I scheduled them for the last session at South Georgia Growing Local:
Hydroponic greenhouses and gardens are a viable method of growing in many Continue reading
Update 2015-01-20: Oops; actually Wednesday January 21st on the Chris Beckham show, still 8AM. Listen in tomorrow!
Morning radio is where a lot of people get their local news,
and Gretchen will be talking about
South Georgia Growing Local on both the local talk shows this week,
reminding everybody about the great lineup of speakers about local agriculture for
Saturday January 24th at Pine Grove Middle School.
7:30 AM Monday 19 January 2015
Scott James, 92.1 FM WDDQ, http://www.talk921.com/
facebook event,
tunein.
8:00 AM Tuesday 20 Wednesday 21 January 2015
Chris Beckham, 105.9 FM WVGA, http://valdostatoday.com/wvga/
facebook event,
tunein.
You can listen to them with a radio, or through various online streaming services, such as tunein.
-jsq
A speaker at the upcoming South Georgia Growing Local Conference just got a national award in San Francisco.
Press release via ABAC, Georgia Farmer Wins National Award for Cooking Oil,
A Georgia farmer took home a coveted Good Food Award in the oils category this week.
Oliver Farm Pecan Oil was recognized Thursday at the Good Food Award ceremony in San Francisco.
Since he started pressing food oils in 2012, Clay Oliver has expanded to produce cooking oils from sunflower, pecan and peanuts from the family homestead near Pitts, Ga.
“It’s great to be from the South and up against other producers from across the country … and then Continue reading
Now a word from our founder.
Science is finding that a healthy gut biome is vital to a powerful immune system, a highly functional brain, and overall good health. Jump-start your road to recovery or maintain your vigor by incorporating cultured foods in your diet. Fermenting is wicked simple and lots of fun. In this workshop Janisse will make sauerkraut, kefir, and kombucha. She’ll also talk about many other homemade cultured foods you can incorporate into your homestead or home kitchen for the benefit of you and your family, including cream fraiche, vinegar, and much more.
Janisse Ray and Leeanne Culbreath started the South Georgia Growing Local series of conferences in November 2010 in Tifton. For more about Janisse Ray see her web page. She already held Southeast Georgia Growing Local in Tattnall County in November 2014. Come see Janisse at the other fifth conference in this series, South Georgia Growing Local 2015, January 24, 2015, at Pine Grove Middle School in Lowndes County north of Valdosta.
-jsq
What’s in your soap? Listen to Tom Kuettner and find out.
Why use Natural soap, Types of soap making, Basic soap making, What problems do adding Milk, Essential Oils, Botanicals pose, how do we deal with these problems to make quality soap.
Who should attend: Anyone with a desire to make their own soap or with an interest in what’s in their soap and why to use natural soap
Come hear Tom at South Georgia Growing Local 2015, Continue reading
Here’s the current draft schedule for the conference,
with all five tracks.
Bees, bugs, and oils; plants, planting, and soils!
Herbs, small fruits, and citrus; cooking, fermenting, and curing!
Goats, fish, and chickens; water, solar, and weaving!
Nutrition, seed saving, and permaculture!
The current updated schedule will always be in the main conference page.
| Session | Time | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 | Track 4 | Track 5 |
| Welcome | 9:00-9:15 | |||||
| Session 1 | 9:30-10:30 | Local Cooking — Christine and Angela Hagen | Soil Building — Julia Gaskins | Small and Unusual Fruits and Vegetables — Dr. Bret Wagenhorst | TBD | Back Yard Hens — Dr. Claudia Dunkley |
| Session 2 | 10:45-11:45 | Local Oils — Clay Oliver | Planting by the Almanac — Terry Davis | Invasive Plants — Karan Rawlins | Permaculture and Sustainability — Stewart Douglas | Bees — Raynae Jones |
| Lunch | 12:00-1:00 | |||||
| Session 3 | 1:15-2:15 | Herbs — TBD | Fermenting — Janisse Ray | Citrus — Mark Crawford | Reducing Waste — Feeding America | Goats — Bobbie Golden |
| Session 4 | 2:30-3:30 | Nutrition — Karen Chapman | Aquaponics — Dr. Pat Duncan | Textiles — Lisa Smith | Solar — Ron Jackson | Curing Meats — Derrick Dawson |
| Session 5 | 3:45-4:45 | Essential Oils — Mary Clement | Bug Identification — David Riley | Water Collection — John S. Quarterman | Goat Milk Soaps — Tom Kuettner | Hydroponic Greenhouses — Jeff Morgan and Tony Mallory |
| Wrap Up | 4:50-5:00 |
Updated January 18
-gretchen
Crops need soils with organic matter, as a UGA soil specialist reminds us.
Healthy soils are fundamental to growing crops sustainably. The key to heathy soils is organic matter because organic matter is so important for microorganisms and the other soil creatures. Most of our agricultural soil have very low soil organic matter from years of farming. It can be a challenge to increase organic matter in South Georgia with its sandy soils and hot, humid climate, but it can be done. Come learn basic principles of soil management and strategies for you to improve your soil health.
Julia Gaskin is the Continue reading
Not all growing is for food, as Mary Clement of Four Seasons Oils (facebook) reminds us.
Learn all about essential oils!
Discover the benefits of therapeutic grade essential oils and how they can be used to improve your physical and emotional wellbeing. Learn about the different grades of oils, various applications for them and how these powerful resources can work as natural, chemical-free replacements for items you use every single day. Discover how simple it is to remove toxic products from your life with the aid of essential oils.
There will be Continue reading
There are five tracks (final schedule coming soon) and
several people have asked if it is possible to go to all of
the talks at the conference. It is if you are 5 people.
The day will be something like this:
| 9-9:15 | Welcome |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Session I |
| 10:45-11:45 | Session II |
| 12-1 | Lunch |
| 1:15-2:15 | Session III |
| 2:30-3:30 | Session IV |
| 3:45-4:45 | Session V |
So that’s five sessions, each of which (except the Welcome) will have five tracks.
Looking forward to seeing everyone on the 24th.
-gretchen
Research, including studies presented at the conference in Istanbul, is showing that organic agriculture can deliver reliably high yields ”and that organic fields thrive in the face of disaster and duress, where chemical-reliant crops falter. Organic fields, for example, fare significantly better than chemically managed ones in the face of extreme weather, such as droughts or floods.
Anna Lappe, for takepart, 4 November 2014, Yes, Organic Farming Can Feed the World, Continue reading