Still thinking about what resolutions to make for the new year? Resolve
to come to
South Georgia Growing Local 2015 conference at Pine Grove
Middle. You can
register and pay on-line or mail a check and reserve
your place now.
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including registration.
facebook event and
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but remember to
register, too!
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Dr. Pat Duncan, director of the Georgia Center for Aquaculture Development,
Fort Valley State University,
Fort Valley, GA, will explain aquaculture.
Safe local food movements are no longer a passing fad as consumers
avoid the dangers and fears associated with processed industrialized
food. Any number of associated causes drives concerns about GMO
plants, pesticides, and other chemicals. With many options and
systems designs available for cost effective ways of safe food
production, one system with unique opportunities is aquaponics.As with most food production systems, there are twists and turns on
systems and designs to approach the development and management of an
aquaponics system. Ranging from small do-it-yourself systems to
elaborate automated commercial designs, each of these systems
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You can sweeten your food experience with honeybees.
Anyone can be a beekeeper! From keeping a single hive in your
backyard or 100 hives; learn how to get started. Beekeeping is a fun
and important part of growing local. Raynae’ will share resources on
how to get started with your own hive. Watch your own hive pollinate
your garden and reward you with a sweet treat!Who should attend: All ages interested in keeping bees!
Come hear Raynae at
South Georgia Growing Local 2015,
January 24th 2015,
Pine Grove Middle School, near Valdosta, in Lowndes County Georgia.
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How to make your own yarn.
I’ll be demonstrating how to prepare and spin natural fibers
including different breeds of sheeps wool, angora and mohair into
yarn using a spinning wheel. I’ll also show items that can be
knitted or woven from your own handspun yarns.Lisa Smith is an avid sock knitter who one day decided to learn to
spin her own sock yarn. This adventure eventually led to the
purchase of Smokey, her hillbilly French angora rabbit, numerous
sheep fleeces and a houseful of fuzz.
Her blog is
www.lisathemom.com.
Come hear Lisa at
South Georgia Growing Local 2015,
January 24th 2015,
Pine Grove Middle School, near Valdosta, in Lowndes County Georgia.
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Clay Oliver of
Oliver Farm, Pitts, GA:
Discussion on cold pressed oils and their benefits.
Should be attended by: foodies, health nuts, everyday gourmets
Come hear Clay at
South Georgia Growing Local 2015,
January 24th 2015,
Pine Grove Middle School, near Valdosta, in Lowndes County Georgia.
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Christine and Angela Hagen of
Hagen Homestead CSA
will talk about
Cooking ideas and menu strategies featuring locally grown,
naturally produced and passionately wholesome ingredients.Who should attend: Anyone who likes to eat.
Come hear Christine and Angela at
South Georgia Growing Local 2015,
January 24th 2015,
Pine Grove Middle School, near Valdosta, in Lowndes County Georgia.
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Chayote squash, feijoas,
bananas, Jerusalem artichokes, roselle, chestnuts and black walnuts,
kiwano melons, star fruit, grapefruit, Seminole pumpkins, papayas,
Japanese persimmons, and rice: all these can be grown in south Georgia,
says Bret Wagenhorst of Brighton Farms.
He will talk about those crops at
South Georgia Growing Local 2015, January 24, 2015, at Pine Grove Middle
School in Lowndes County north of Valdosta.
You can
register now.
There are many food crops that aren’t typically grown commercially
in south Georgia/north Florida that can do well on a small scale.
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Saturday, January 24th at Pine Grove Middle School!
You can
register online or mail in the form.
Follow
the link
for seed saving, oils, herbs, corn, rainwater, fish, beekeeping, goats, chickens, hams, and more.
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This sums up both
Bill Gates’ sudden surge of
agricultural land purchases
and
the fossil fuel industry’s sudden surge of fracked methane pipelines:
“on a global scale, that the global problem, from the
perspective of European colonialists and European entrepreneurs, is
really how to transform the countryside.”
In both cases, we here in the southeast are just peasants
or backwards natives from the perspectives of the
the new colonialists as they try to transform our countryside.
So what if such transformation results in
dust storms
or
leaks, explosions, or
higher domestic natural gas prices?
The new colonialists would profit!
Jonathan Shaw wrote for Harvard Magazine November-December 2014,
The New Histories: Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past. Continue reading
Apparently electric fence wire isn’t good to sling into a tractor tire.
The puncture was barely visible, but leaked completely down after a while.
Fortunately, Charles from Adel Tire came and fixed it.
After he set it on fire.
He explains why in the video. Continue reading
