Update 2023-12-29:
Turpentine Afterburn 2023-12-22.
This is a McCoy turpentine cup collected some time back from my property.
As you can see, it is folded metal, so far as I know galvanized steel,
although quite rusted.
Another of those is what you see the remains of on the
fallen catface. Continue reading
Not what you want to find burrowing into your left side.
Even small, they can be bad.
And they get bigger, especially if they can suck your blood.
This one came from the Suwannee River near Big Shoals.
-jsq
As the only farmer Georgia delegate to the
Democratic National Convention,
and the only delegate from Lowndes County and one of the few from rural Georgia,
Gretchen Quarterman
is off to the
Democratic Platform Committee meeting in Orlando today and tomorrow,
Friday July 8th and Saturday July 9th 2016.
Remember: No Farms, No Food.
She already knows a bit more about the process than Jimmy Stewart in
1939’s Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
Hm, I’d forgotten that movie was about Continue reading
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
South Georgia Growing Local is also for North Florida,
where these goats live.
- Breeds that are most likely to live in our environment
- How to market and get some return on your investment
Bobbie’s business is
Golden Acres Ranch, between Monticello Florida,
and Thomasville, Georgia.
Come hear Bobbie talk about her goats at
South Georgia Growing Local 2015,
this Saturday, January 24th,
at Pine Grove Middle School, in Lowndes County, Georgia.
-jsq
Christine Hagen will speak about her family’s CSA at
South Georgia Growing Local 2014:
We started out going to a weekly organic farmer’s market over in
Thomasville but transitioned to a CSA after 2 years. We will explain why
and show you how our gardens have taken shape over these past few years. We
are still a small operation after 4 years choosing to grow our business
slowly. However, we have learned a great deal during these growing years.
Plus we have gleaned much from other folks which we will be implementing
over the next few years. We are grooming the farm as a business venture for
our son, who does most of the labor.
Hagen Homestead’s
website.
Christine Hagen’s conference bio: Continue reading
We will be on the radio twice on Monday. First on the Chris
Beckham show at 7:30 and then on a Jasper station at 11:30. Listen
in and invite your friends.
Here’s
a facebook event
about the Black Crow Media 105.9 FM radio show, 7:30-7:45 AM.
You can listen to it online with
Streema.com
or any of several other apps.
Or over the air!
And remember to
register for the conference.
-jsq
Due to discussion on facebook with Rihard Sexton after
the previous post,
I dug around a bit,
and discovered that beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) is also known as
dwarf mulberry, French mulberry,
and Spanish mulberry, sow berry, and sour berry.
That last is especially a misnomer, because its berries are not sour,
they taste like flowers.
And it turns out that beautyberry was mentioned in books before 1800,
it was just mentioned as dwarf mulberry:
Further, William Bartram did mention it in his Travels of 1791, as
French mulberry.
Curiously, even though Google books does have Bartram’s book,
ngrams doesn’t seem to show French mulberry for that date,
but does show American mulberry.
Even more curious, William Bartram’s father, John Bartram,
corresponded with Linnaeus, the founder of modern
botanical terminology.
The currently most popular name is beautyberry, which turns out to
be related to the scientific genus name, Callicarpa: Greek kalli
means beautiful, and Karpos means fruit.
The plant has all sorts of uses:
The surprising thing is so few people have heard of Leon Neel.
Here’s a very interesting biography of this very influential
pioneer in southeastern forestry and agriculture, including
many interesting stories of south Georgia and north Florida
life and politics:
The Art of Managing Longleaf:
A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach,
by Leon Neel, with Paul S. Sutter and Albert G. Way.
Leon Neel was a atudent, apprentice, and successor of Herbert Stoddard,
who was originally hired by quail plantation owners around
Thomasville to figure out why their quail populations were
decreasing.
The answer included a need to thin and especially to burn
their longleaf pine tree forests.
Stoddard and Neel studied and practiced for almost a century
between them on how to preserve and increase the amount of standing
timber and species diversity while also selectively harvesting trees
to pay for the whole thing.
Their Stoddard-Neel Approach is written up in textbooks.
In this book we learn how it came about, and how it is basically
different from the clearcut-thin-thin-clearcut “efficient” timbering
cycle that is the current fad among pine tree growers in the southeast.
It starts back in the old days of Leon Neel’s youth when his daddy taught
him to hunt quail:
In a front page story in the
Valdosta Daily Times, Matt Flumerfelt writes:
VALDOSTA — The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners will vote today concerning the proposed paving of Quarterman Road, located off Hambrick Tree Farm Road.
The road is already partially paved, but some community members are concerned about the trees that line a section of the road that will have to be removed in order to complete the paving project.
There’s more. He ends with:
The commission will meet tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the County Commission Building on Savannah Avenue.
If you’re heading south down Patterson Street, turn right just before the overpass.
That’s Savannah Avenue. Several blocks down you’ll see the water tower, and the commission office is on the left just before you get to the tower. If the parking lot is full, you can park across the street in the county fire station lot.
We’ll see if the county will consider the idea of treating canopy roads throughout the canopy as the benefit they are to the environment, beauty, and tourism.
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