Get your hands on baking bread:
I will talk about the benefits of eating fresh milled wheat/sprouted. The effects that it has on the body and digestion. I will also have a hands on where they can make a small loaf of bread to take home along with a printed recipe.
Registration is open for South Georgia Growing Local, Saturday, February 6th 2016, at Pine Grove Middle School, Lowndes County, Georgia.
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Continue readingMy CSA!
We started market farming by accident. Some good friends inquired if we ever sold any of our extra vegetables? Had not thought about that—we sold them some purple onions, lettuce, and butternut squash that day. Eight years later they are still good friends and they are still buying our farm goods along with other friends and acquaintances. But as the saying goes: “If I knew then what I know now….” So let’s spend some time together learning some tips and tools of market farming and gardening in general.
Who should attend: anyone who likes to garden
Hagen Homestead will also have a display table.
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Layered gardens as ecosystems that have persistent community and environmental benefits: permaculture.
Description: We will be discussing how permaculture practices with an emphasis on land stewardship and building communities.
Who should attend: Anyone interested in community gardens, permaculture, and environmental philosophy.
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Back by popular demand, Mary Clement reminds us that not all growing is for food, about Four Seasons Oils (facebook).
Learn all about essential oils!
Discover the benefits of therapeutic grade essential oils and how they can be used to improve your physical and emotional wellbeing. Learn about the different grades of oils, various applications for them and how these powerful resources can work as natural, chemical-free replacements for items you use every si ngle day. Discover how simple it is to remove toxic products from your life with the aid of essential oils.
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It’s a lost art most places, but not here!
Learn the basics of curing meat at home.
How to make your cure (How much salt do I need? Should I use sugar?) Applying the cure (how much and how often) What supplies do I need? How long does it take?
Registration is open for South Georgia Growing Local, Saturday, February 6th 2016, at Pine Grove Middle School, Lowndes County, Georgia. 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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South Georgia Growing Local is also for North Florida, where these goats live.
- Breeds that are most likely to live in our environment
- How to market and get some return on your investment
Bobbie’s business is Golden Acres Ranch, between Monticello Florida, and Thomasville, Georgia. Come hear Bobbie talk about her goats at South Georgia Growing Local 2015, this Saturday, January 24th, at Pine Grove Middle School, in Lowndes County, Georgia.
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A talk instead of tours of the Pine Grove Middle School greenhouses this year.
The greenhouses have a fungus just now because it is too moist
in them because of the amount of water they had to put on
during the freezes. Therefore there will be no tours this year.
However Jeff and Tony will be happy to give a talk.
I scheduled them for the last session at South Georgia Growing Local:
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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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