The Withlacoochee River channel was full yesterday at the GA 122 bridge, near Hambrick Road, with reference Yellow Dog:
Compare to 21 March 2012 (on the left):
I wasn’t standing in quite the same place yesterday, because I would have been standing in water. But you can see the water is much higher than it was six months ago.
Here are a few more pictures and a video.
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Who knew fire ants like pumpkins?
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 11 September 2012.
It was ripe, so I rolled it out of the ant bed, brushed off the ants, and we already sold it.
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Seeing that grape vine, I said,
Tarzan lives here!
The visiting French botanist gave it a try.
Video by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 22 August 2012.
Never works for me, but apparently he’s lighter. Watch him go:
Continue readingWe already knew Argentinian farmers were suing Monsanto about Roundup-induced birth defects, including cerebral palsy, down syndrome, psychomotor retardation, missing fingers, and blindness; we knew Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate was “a risk factor for developing Non-Hodgkin lymphoma”; we knew that Roundup-ready corn causes liver and kidney damage in rats and chickens fed feed including Monsanto corn show abnormal gene expression, and we knew that Roundup-ready corn is toxic to humans. Add to all that: Roundup is a risk for Parkinson’s disease.
Sayer Ji wrote for GreenMediaInfo 18 April 2012, Roundup Herbicide Linked To Parkinson’s-Related Brain Damage,
Continue readingAlarming new research published in the journal Neurotoxicology and Teratology
supports the emerging connection between glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, and neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and Parkinsonian disorders.
Published this month (April, 2012), the new study entitled “Glyphosate induced cell death through apoptotic and authophagic mechanisms,” investigated the potential brain-damaging effects of herbicides, which the authors stated “have been recognized as the main environmental factor associated with neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease.”1
They found that glyphosate inhibited the viability of differentiated test cells (PC12, adrenal medula derived), in both dose-and-time dependent manners. The researchers also found that “glyphosate induced cell death via authophagy pathways in addition to activating apoptotic pathways.”
Roundup herbicide is now a ubiquitous contaminant in our air, rain, groundwater, and food, making complete avoidance near impossible. A growing body of experimental evidence now indicates that it in addition to its neurotoxicity it also has the following.
Modes of Toxicity
Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) growing next to corn (Zea mays): two very tasty plants!
This corn was planted by Terry Davis from seed kept in his family for 100 years.
Continue readingIt smelled as bad as it looked:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 September 2012.
This is the notorious Rayonier paper mill near Jesup, Georgia,
that Georgia Water Coalition ranked on its Dirty Dozen,
2011’s worst offenses against Georgia’s Water,
as
#2, Altamaha River: Rayonier Pulp Mill Discharge Destroys Fisheries.
That report got
a reaction from Rayonier,
according to Mike Morrison in Jacksonville.com 8 November 2011,
Rayonier acknowledges waste issues,
The head of Rayonier acknowledged Monday that there are problems with the water it discharges into the Altamaha River at its paper mill near Jesup but said the company is ahead of schedule on cleaning it up.
The Georgia Water Coalition on Saturday ranked a stretch of river in the vicinity of the mill second on its “Dirty Dozen,” a list of the state’s most polluted or otherwise damaged rivers, streams, wetlands and marshes.
“We are very committed to the water quality of the Altamaha River,” Rayonier Chairman and CEO Lee Thomas said. “It’s important to us, just as it is important to the people of southeast Georgia. We’re working hard to improve the discharge.”
Rayonier’s pollution remains famous in song and story, such as in
this YouTube video.
What is this bug? I was mowing at Carolyn's place, when I lowered my arm and felt something like sandspurs on my shirt. Nope, it was this thing.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 1 September 2012.
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Zucca, okra, and sweet potatoes to Valdosta Farm Days this morning, 9AM to 1PM (and pumpkins and peppers), down at the historic Lowndes County Courthouse, Central Avenue between Patterson and Ashley.
Where did she get those zucca?
The dogs helped.
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman,
Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures and videos by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 1 September 2012.
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Enjoy it while you can, butterfly, I already bought an innertube.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 August 2012.
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