Registration open for South Georgia Growing Local 2016

Registration is open now for the annual conference on local food and local agriculture, South Georgia Growing Local 2016, to be held Saturday 26 February 2016 at Pine Grove Middle School, Lowndes County, Georgia.

You can register online or print a form and send it with a check: follow this link.

On that same page you will find links to pictures, videos, and other material from previous years, as well as Continue reading

Shelling red corn

Got to turn that big old crank
Got to spin that flywheel around
Got to shell that red kernel corn
So we’ll have some grits and corn meal.

Here’s the video:


Gretchen Quarterman, Shelling red corn
Video by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 13 November 2015.

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