Feeding Tom the house spider.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 9 July 2012.
The circle in the bottom right is where I set the bug in Tom’s web. He came right out and got it.
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Taller than she is:
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 8 July 2012.
A lot of okra:
Terry Davis picking corn:
Terry Davis picking corn
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 July 2012.
Okra, potato, pepper, plus cornbread muffins and collard seeds:
Gretchen picks peppers every day, and right now she's baking pepper muffins to take to Valdosta Farm Days at the historic Lowndes County Courthouse. Brown Dog and Yellow Dog helping:
Brown Dog and Yellow Dog helping Gretchen Quarterman pick peppers.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 5 July 2012.
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Patrick, Gretchen, Elsie, Ann:
Patrick, Gretchen, Elsie, Ann
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Nashville, Tennessee, 2 July 2012.
Elsie, Patrick, Ann:
Continue readingPicked 60 pounds of okra and more is flowering. There's a bee on one of those flowers:
Picked 60 pounds of okra and more is flowering
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 3 July 2012.
Pumpkins keep getting bigger:
Continue readingThis is the same zucca that was finger-length 26 June. Three days later, it's a foot long:
Foot long zucca
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 June 2012.
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My grandmother wrote this around 1960, when she was around 77 years old. -jsq
I remember when corn in the fields was dropped by hand — 2 grains every two steps. Mule plow opened the furrow & children dropped the grains.
The first corn planter was considered bad — it was sure to keep the seed from sprouting!
My brother Patrick found this text in a notebook his aunt Elsie had kept.
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