Brown Dog and Gretchen are surprised
Gretchen Quarterman was surprised when Yellow Dog walked past me and picked up that snake about 4 feet to my left. I had backed off when I took this picture, but the venom splatter still got on my arm, which immediately started tingling. With a bit of soap and water, it’s fine. For once the Yellow Dog did not get bit. She did get some of the food she likes best and a bone. Brown Dog prudently stayed out of this one.
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Gretchen took this yellow squash and zucchini to
Wiregrass Farmers Market in Tifton, GA this morning,
along with fresh-plowed potatoes, rosemary, and of course heirloom corn grits.
That’s 9AM to noon, behind the Country Store at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture (Agrirama),
1392 Whiddon Mill Road, Tifton GA 31794.
Did you know zucchini is actually a fruit, even though it’s cooked and eaten as a vegetable? And the name is Italian, because the type we eat today was developed in Italy, even though like all squash its ancestors came from the Americas? More about Cucurbita pepo, also known as courgette or vegetable marrow, by Master Gardener Laurel Reader, Zucchini: A Treat in the Heat.
Market day doesn’t smell right without rosemary. Continue reading
Third of three creatures Gretchen dipped from the swamp: a huge tadpole. This isn’t one of the ones she just put in there.
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You never know what you’ll find in the cypress swamp.
It’s Betty Marini from Lanier County!
And Gretchen and Brown Dog and Yellow Dog. Continue reading
Yellow Dog caught it. Brown Dog brought it to me.
Proof the elusive Tom Kuettner can be captured. Gretchen Quarterman delivered popcorn from Okra Paradise Farms to Cory Danner and picked up our order yesterday from Dirt Road Organics Buying Club.
More pictures below.
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7AM Thursday morning, Gretchen Quarterman will be on the
Scott James, 92.1 FM radio program along with Ray Ewing (President of Lowndes Improvement Association),
to talk about
a South Georgia cultural tradition, and one of only two left in the entire country:
the 66th annual
Ham and Eggs Auction 2016.
You can bid on eggs, on a ham, and if you talk to Gretchen or Ray they can tell you how to get involved in the program and even how to get the whole hog!
The Ham and Eggs Show will be noon Wednesday 17 February 2016
at the Lowndes County Extension Office, 2102 E Hill Ave, Valdosta, GA 31601
(facebook event).
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Yellow Dog is really not easily impressed.
Burning the woods 10 feet in front of her dog house produced a lot of smoke, as you can see.
Did she care?
