Dr. Claudia Dunkley, Extension Poultry Scientist,
will speak about Growing Backyard Chickens
at
South Georgia Growing Local 2017, January 21, 2017 in Valdosta, Georgia:
Basic information for beginning a backyard flock including: breeds, housing, nutrition, egg production and biosecurity.
Her conference bio: Continue reading
Bret Wagenhorst will talk about Beyond blueberries and peanuts: lesser known crops for the coastal plain, at South Georgia Growing Local 2017, January 21, 2017 in Valdosta, Georgia:
An overview of many less conventional crops that the speaker has grown in tifton, including how to grow, uses. Some crops to be covered: luffa gourds, chayote squash, seminole pumpkins, roselle, narajilla, chestnuts, kiwi, tropical greens, bananas, papayas, loquats, tumeric, ginger and more.
Who should attend:
Folks who want to think outside the box of conventional crops and learn about other tasty, nutritious things to grow in the coastal plain.
Brief Biography: Continue reading
Gretchen took this yellow squash and zucchini to
Wiregrass Farmers Market in Tifton, GA this morning,
along with fresh-plowed potatoes, rosemary, and of course heirloom corn grits.
That’s 9AM to noon, behind the Country Store at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture (Agrirama),
1392 Whiddon Mill Road, Tifton GA 31794.
Did you know zucchini is actually a fruit, even though it’s cooked and eaten as a vegetable? And the name is Italian, because the type we eat today was developed in Italy, even though like all squash its ancestors came from the Americas? More about Cucurbita pepo, also known as courgette or vegetable marrow, by Master Gardener Laurel Reader, Zucchini: A Treat in the Heat.
Market day doesn’t smell right without rosemary. Continue reading
You can
register today for South Georgia Growing Local 2016,
to be held all day Saturday February 6th at Pine Grove Middle School.
Chris Beckham was struck by the variety: corn, chicken, fruits, goats, soap, composting, water, worms, solar power!
So many different topics in six tracks, “but all indigenous to South Georgia.”
Gretchen replied,
Indeed, when this conference started six years ago, we just had two tracks. One was about cooking, and one was about growing, pest control, and fertilizing, and how to have your garden be successful in the special conditions of south Georgia and north Florida. Because our conditions here are different than they are in north Georgia or on the coast, or farther south in Florida where it never freezes. We sort of have a very special environment here, and so this conference is geared towards that.
Lots of new and repeat talks; see the Continue reading
Dr. Claudia Dunkley, Extension Poultry Scientist,
will speak at
South Georgia Growing Local 2014
about
Basic information for beginning a backyard flock including: breeds, housing, nutrition, egg production and biosecurity.
Her conference bio: Continue reading
Dr. Stanley Culpepper of UGA Tifton says 52 counties have the mutant pigweed.
He says they’re looking at cover crops and deep turning.
(You may know that as plowing.)
He hastily adds that they’re looking at other herbicides.
But he wraps up by saying we have to look at other methods
than herbicides: tillage and cover crops.
He frames it as diversity and integration.
What it really means is spraying poisons eventually
breeds weeds that refuse to be poisoned.
People, of course,
are not so lucky.
This is the same Dr. Culpepper whose extensive slides on this subject I reviewed last summer.
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Checking in Saturday morning, 13 Nov 2010,
at the Growing Local Conference organized
by Georgia Organics in Tifton, Georgia.
Janisse Ray and Leeanne Culbreath explain the conference.
Raven Waters demonstrates cheese making,
South Georgia “Growing Local” Conference,
Georgia Organics, Tifton, Georgia, 13 Nov 2010.
Videos by John S. Quarterman.
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She told me not to video her:
But did I listen?
Video by John S. Quarterman of Gretchen Quarterman demonstrating preserving at a south Georgia event in Tifton by Georgia Organics, 13 Nov 2010.
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Agrirama had a vine cutting Saturday for a Smithsonian food exhibit that will be there a while, with numerous accompanying events.
Tuesday evening there’s Organic Gardening Basics, and Friday there’s a South Georgia Foodways Festival, among quite a few others.