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Beyond blueberries and peanuts: lesser known crops for the coastal plain –Bret Wagenhorst @ SOGALO17 2017-01-21

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:


Bananas on tree
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 →

Lesser Known Crops for the Coastal Plain, by Bret Wagenhorst @ SOGALO16

The first posted of many talks you can hear at

South Georgia Growing Local in February:

Description of the talk:
A presentation of my experience growing, eating, selling various
lesser known edible crops

Cut persimmon
of the coastal plain. I will try to
include as many of the following as I can get to in my allotted
time slot (not necessarily in this order): Asian yard long beans,
bananas, black walnuts, bunching onions, cactus pears, carambola Continue reading →

Dr. Quarterman’s ground-breaking work will continue –Dr. J. Richard Carter



Received 13 June 2014 and permission to publish granted today. -jsq

From: J Richard Carter

To: Patrick Quarterman

I am very sorry to hear about Dr. Quarterman. She was a remarkable
person. I started graduate school at Vanderbilt in 1978, a few
years after Dr. Quarterman retired, so I didn’t have the privilege
of taking her courses. However, she was still very much a presence
in the department, attending seminars and interacting with faculty
and students informally in the departmental conference room.

I also
remember that she very kindly gave me a set of reprints of

her classic Continue reading →