A very tiny spring or seep.
![[Brown Dog in spring]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-03-15--triangle-spring-sycamore/20200315_102759.jpg)
Brown Dog thinks it’s a puddle, but it never goes dry.
![[Who, me?]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-03-15--triangle-spring-sycamore/20200315_102802.jpg)
Next to it is a sycamore tree.
![[Gretchen with a sycamore tree]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-03-15--triangle-spring-sycamore/20200315_102924.jpg)
Gretchen likes sycamores.
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Tag Archives: Georgia
Prescribed burn, 1.6 acres planted pines 2020-02-24
Here’s why we should have burned this patch last year, but unfortunately weather didn’t cooperate.
![[Why frequent burning is necessary]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-02-24--burn/20200224_143426.jpg)
Why frequent burning is necessary
If we didn’t burn, eventually what we’d get would be an uncontrolled wildfire with much worse flareups than that.
Somebody always complains about burning woods. Let the Longleaf Alliance explain the benefits of fire in a southern pine forest.
It started easy this year. Continue reading
Greens and grits for 401 West Restaurant 2019-11-22
Our restaurant customer came to pick up some produce.
You’ll be able to eat these greens and grits at 401 West, St. Marys, GA. Continue reading
Pomegranate 2019-10-07
Only one, but we grew it.
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Peggy catches bananas 2019-10-13
The Shirt Formerly Known as White 2019-08-04
After a few hours of hacking and tractor-mowing Japanese Climbing Fern and Chinese Privet, this is what my shirt looked like:
Everybody wears a white shirt to work in the woods, right?
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Johnsons with okra, corn, and pitcher plants 2019-06-24
Tom H. Johnson Jr. and Mary Caroline Pindar wanted to see the garden at Okra Paradise Farms.
Abelmoschus esculentus, okra, lady’s fingers, gumbo, ngombo, bhindi, vendakkai, and many other names. Possibly from West Africa, or Ethiopia, or South Asia. Requires full sun and hot temperatures with good soil. Continue reading
Pitcher plants and sundew 2019-05-18
In the same place as a month ago, but now grown to a clump:
Probably Sarracenia minor, the Continue reading
Snake chose poorly, say dogs 2019-05-18
Update 2019-05-20: A more likely identification.
Definitely not a rattlesnake. Whatever it is, it chose poorly by showing up right in front of the dogs’ doghouse.
Don’t know which dog dislikes them most, maybe Yellow Dog. Continue reading
Hanging Pitcher Plant 2019-05-08
It’s a Nepenthes.
Pretty sure it’s a Nepenthes mirabilis, which is common across southeast Asia. Yes, that makes it exotic here, but it’s very picky, so Continue reading