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Minor food crops to consider for the hobby gardener or small scale farmer –Bret Wagenhorst @ SOGALO15


300x224 Starfruit pile, in Minor food crops to consider for the hobby gardener or small scale farmer, by Bret Wagenhorst, for OkraParadiseFarms.org, 14 December 2014

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.
This talk will Continue reading