All places on the bus are full for the Friday Farm Tours.
There’s still plenty of room at Pine Grove Elementary,
so remember to register for the Saturday Talks
at
South Georgia Growing Local 2014!
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Proof Is in the Certification –Connie Hayes
Connie Hayes of Healthy Hollow Farms will speak at South Georgia Growing Local 2014,
How do we prove to customers that our products are free of genetically modified ingredients? while many homesteaders choose to be not certified or certified naturally grown, consumers are becoming more concerned with GMOs. We will offer practical tips for insuring consumers, as well as how to on certifications & non-GMO testing.
Here’s her conference bio:
Members of Coastal Organic Growers (COG), Connie & Jimmy Hayes own & operate Healthy Hollow Farms near Stilson, GA, which has been certified organic since 2007. They grow organic peanuts and raise Belted Galloway cattle. They are in the process of setting up an
on-farm processing facility for their peanuts. Connie serves on the board of Georgia Organics and has trained under Jeffery Smith with The Institute for Responsible Technology to speak on GMOs.
Come to
SOGALO2014 and hear Connie about getting certified organic!
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Yes, we can grow citrus in Georgia! –Marj Schneider
Update 2 Feb 2014: Citrus Resources.
At South Georgia Growing Local 2014:
Learn about varieties that do best in our climate, and how to plant and nurture your trees. We will discuss winter protection, fertilizing, and challenges with citrus. You’ll leave with resources for buying trees and learning more.
Bess T. Chappas wrote and took this picture for SavannahNow 24 September 2008,
Tropical garden in suburbia,
Continue readingTwenty citrus trees are scattered around the yard, including lemon, blood orange, tangelo, cara-cara orange, lime, grapefruit, tangerine and mandarin. A pumello plant, a citrus variety from Southeast Asia, has a fruit the size of a basketball. Papaya and guava plants grow tall against the back of the house. Pineapple and coffee plants grow in the ground and in large pots.
Florida Goats at South Georgia Growing Local 2014
It’s not just for south Georgia:
from Madison County, Florida, Julia Shewchuk will talk about her
goats of
Serenity Acres Farm.
Here’s Wayne and Julia’s welcome to Serenity Acres Farm:
We are a small farm in Madison County Florida working toward the big goal of bringing you
locally grown products and farm raised products without the use of major pesticides, hormones and genetically modified components.
Our philosophy is simple: Grow and raise it locally and then offer only the freshest and best of what we produce.
The goats appear about a minute into this video, with milking about 2 and a half minutes in: Continue reading