Tomorrow Saturday!
South Georgia Growing Local is this Saturday, January 21, 2017,
at PineVale Elementary, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.
Here’s
video
of Gretchen Quarterman interviewed by Chris Beckham a week ago
on his drive time radio show, 105.9 FM, WVGA.
SOGALO17 will be at a new venue with cooking facilities!
When: 9AM-4:30 PM, Saturday, January 21st 2017
Where: Pinevale Elementary School, 930 Lake Park Road, Valdosta GA.
Web: page
And the video: Continue reading
Gretchen on the radio, 105.9 FM,
8AM this morning, Thursday January 12, 2017:
Gretchen Quarterman will
be on Chris Beckham’s
drive time radio show,
talkng about
South Georgia Growing Local 2017 (SOGALO17),
coming up Saturday January 21, 2017 at PineVale Elementary School.
When: 8:00 Thursday January 12th 2017
Where: Continue reading
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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Saturday, February 6th, South Georgia Growing Local at Pine Grove Middle School!
As Scott James said on
Talk 92.1FM Tuesday:
“I don’t know if people fully realize… what kind of wave is overtaking us here in south Georgia, and in Georgia in general, what kind of growing local wave!”
Gretchen said it’s also about health: we’ve got people here who can’t walk up stairs to work, and eating better helps people be more healthy. Scott James and Gretchen discussed oils, Ham and Eggs, and more. Clay Oliver will have a vendor table, and Mary Clement will speak about Essential Oils, plus chickens, goats, herbs, bread, vegetables, fruits, water, solar power, and a buying club! Here’s the schedule.
Remember this is the new Continue reading
Update 2016-01-28: Video of Gretchen on Talk 92.1FM Scott James show.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
South Georgia Growing Local on the air and on the ground at Pine Grove Middle School
Hahira, January 25, 2016 — Tuesday morning 8:30 AM, Gretchen
Quarterman will be on the Scott James radio show,
92.1 FM, talking
about South Georgia Growing Conference, happening again at Pine
Grove Middle School, all day Saturday February 6th.
“This has really turned into a thing!” as Chris Beckham said on his 105.9 FM
radio show when Gretchen was on there last Wednesday, “So many
different topics in six tracks, but all indigenous to south
Georgia.”
Gretchen explained: Continue reading
Really on the air this morning, and now on YouTube,
talking about “quite the event” as Chris Beckham called it,
South Georgia Growing Local, this Saturday, January 24th at Pine Grove Middle School, in Lowndes County, Georgia.
Five times five: five tracks in five sessions, from
soil to planting to cooking and nutrition, including aquaponics by UGA Professor Pat Duncan and local oils
by national award winner Clay Oliver.
Space still available; sign up now!
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms (OPF).
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See her on YouTube
if you missed her on the radio Monday, talking about South Georgia Growing Local, this Saturday, January 24th at Pine Grove Middle School, in Lowndes County, Georgia.
Includes a back yard garden story about her daughter Lindsey, where the apartment manager was very impressed.
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms (OPF).
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Update 2015-01-20: Oops; actually Wednesday January 21st on the Chris Beckham show, still 8AM. Listen in tomorrow!
Morning radio is where a lot of people get their local news,
and Gretchen will be talking about
South Georgia Growing Local on both the local talk shows this week,
reminding everybody about the great lineup of speakers about local agriculture for
Saturday January 24th at Pine Grove Middle School.
7:30 AM Monday 19 January 2015
Scott James, 92.1 FM WDDQ, http://www.talk921.com/
facebook event,
tunein.
8:00 AM Tuesday 20 Wednesday 21 January 2015
Chris Beckham, 105.9 FM WVGA, http://valdostatoday.com/wvga/
facebook event,
tunein.
You can listen to them with a radio, or through various online streaming services, such as tunein.
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The previous commission was divided among itself on this issue, and the local state representatives would not bring it up in the legislature without consensus among the commission. The new commission has been trying to move forward on this. The last version I heard involved keeping the same commission districts as now, plus adding two overlapping commissioners for new east and west districts.
Interestingly, there was nothing said about all this at Monday’s work session, yet we discover in the newspaper:
Paige Dukes, Lowndes County information officer, said the commission visited with reapportionment in Atlanta twice during the past few weeks. As a result of those meetings, the reapportionment office forwarded several maps to the commission for its review, Dukes said.It’s not clear from that just what they might vote on, but from context maybe it would be to forward a plan to citizens to vote on.Lowndes County Commission Chairman Ashley Paulk said, “The commission continues to work feverishly on the expansion issue. We are at an 80 percent consensus regarding a plan that will meet local needs and satisfy requirements determined by the Department of Justice. I am working one on one with each commissioner in an effort to get a plan to citizens as soon as possible.”
Paulk was a guest of Scott James on his morning radio on program TALK 92.1 Monday, and in the course of that interview, Paulk said that if all the commissioners agreed on the plan, the expansion could actually be voted on by the board at tonight’s meeting.