Gretchen dipped three times, and got three creatures. First creature: a salamander. -jsq
Category Archives: Okra Paradise Farms
Betty learns to kayak in a cypress swamp
You never know what you’ll find in the cypress swamp.
It’s Betty Marini from Lanier County!
And Gretchen and Brown Dog and Yellow Dog. Continue reading
Dirt Road Organics Hard at Work in Valdosta 2016-02-24
Proof the elusive Tom Kuettner can be captured. Gretchen Quarterman delivered popcorn from Okra Paradise Farms to Cory Danner and picked up our order yesterday from Dirt Road Organics Buying Club.
More pictures below.
Continue readingRed collared snake
Gretchen on Scott James 92.1 FM radio about Ham and Eggs show 7:00AM 2016-02-10
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).
If you are interested in entering eggs in the show Continue reading
Spreading Fire
What do you do if someboby else is using the firestarter? Spread the prescribe burn with a rake!
Getting lit
Dog Fire
Yellow Dog is really not easily impressed.
Burning the woods 10 feet in front of her dog house produced a lot of smoke, as you can see.
Did she care?
Is there something in there?
Continue readingDogs in the culvert, TV on the road
Dogs don’t care about TV unles they’re on it; culverts are much more fun.
Yellow Dog was curious enough
to sniff around the TV camera,
but mostly they sniffed under things, laid in the dirt, and sat in the doggie fort.
Here’s a video. The incessant hissing is what that tiny natural gas pipeline station for a mere 9-inch pipeline sounds like 24/7, 365 days a year.
Continue readingSouth Georgia Growing Local on the air and on the ground at Pine Grove Middle School
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
Happy Serenity Acres Farm
Julia Shewchuk will present How to make Basic Goat Milk Soap at South Georgia Growing Local in February.
Gretchen Hein, New Leaf Market Co-op, Jan/Feb/Mar 2016, Local Spotlight—Serenity Acres Farm,
“Happy Soaps by Happy Goats,” is the tagline of the Serenity Acres Farm
Goat Soap home page and “happy” describes many things about Serenity Acres Farm. Yes, even how it feels to be lathered by the suds of their goat milk soap.
Owned by Julia and Wayne, Serenity Acres Farm is located in nearby Madison County, Florida. It’s a small farm with a big goal of producing locally grown and farm-raised products free of major pesticides, hormones and genetically modified components. All their animals are Animal Welfare Approved certified and pasture based.
Originally, Julia and Wayne were looking for…. Continue reading