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
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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
Okra picked this morning at Barnes Drugs 1-3PM today
Here’s Gretchen with 10 pounds of okra in the bag,
all as nice and fresh as the one pictured.
You can buy some of that this afternoon in Valdosta.
Where: Barnes Healthcare Services
200 S Patterson St, Valdosta, GA 31601
When: 1-3PM Friday 15 July 2016
Here’s a list of what Gretchen will have for sale at reasonable prices: Continue reading
Ms. Gretchen Goes to Orlando
As the only farmer Georgia delegate to the
Democratic National Convention,
and the only delegate from Lowndes County and one of the few from rural Georgia,
Gretchen Quarterman
is off to the
Democratic Platform Committee meeting in Orlando today and tomorrow,
Friday July 8th and Saturday July 9th 2016.
Remember: No Farms, No Food.
She already knows a bit more about the process than Jimmy Stewart in 1939’s Mr. Smith goes to Washington. Hm, I’d forgotten that movie was about Continue reading
Halberdleaf rosemallow
This
Hibiscus laevis All. we saw June 19th 2016
is on a different stalk than the one of May 30th. Continue reading
Potatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, and rosemary
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.
Cutting rosemary
Market day doesn’t smell right without rosemary. Continue reading