Gretchen in the greens:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 24 November 2013.
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Sand Hill Crane
South Georgia Growing Local 2014
What has about 300 heads and eats really well?
A local agriculture conference coming to Lowndes County 24 January 2014.
South Georgia Growing Local 2014 is a local food conference for growers, consumers, homesteaders in South Georgia. Farm Tours 1/24 — Conference 1/25
You can like the
facebook page
and join events there
for the conference itself on January 25th
and for
the farm tours on January 24th.
Agritourism has come to Lowndes County!
This is one reason a wide variety of organizations, including two Chambers of Commerce, are supporting this conference:
it will fill hotel rooms.
Even more, it’s about longterm local economy through growing and buying food right here in south Georgia and north Florida.
All that and it tastes good, too!
Popcorn
This morning at
Valdosta Farm Days,
red grits, blue grits, and popcorn of many colors:
blue popcorn:
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Janisse Ray wins Sustainable Literature Award
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food,
won the prize for Agriculture in the Sustainable Literature Awards,
according to
the Santa Monica Mirror, 11 September 2013.
From the book:
“If you haven’t heard what’s happening with seeds, let me tell you. They’re disappearing, about like every damn thing else. . . . But I’m not going to talk about anything that’s going to make us feel hopeless, or despairing, because there’s no despair in a seed.”
Other awards for The Seed Underground:
Gold Award of Achievement for Best Book Writing from the Garden Writers Association
Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner: Green Living
Booklist’s Top Ten Crafts and Gardening Books of 2012
American Society of Journalists and Authors Arlene Eisenberg Award for Writing that Makes a Difference
American Horticultural Society Book Award
Silver Award of Achievement from the Garden Writers Association
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Jane Smith Kuntz Jan. 30, 1926 – Sept. 15, 2013
Buffalo News, 15 September 2013,
Jane S. Kuntz, retired teacher, active in community,
Jan. 30, 1926 — Sept. 15, 2013
Jane S. Kuntz, of Lancaster, a retired teacher, died Sunday in GreenField Manor, Lancaster, after a lenthy illness. She was 87.
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Mushrooms on a log
Shrooms:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 6 September 2013.
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Zucca-pumpkins
At
Downtown Valdosta Farm Days
this morning (9AM-1PM),
a cross of a pumpkin and a zucca:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 September 2013.
Gretchen also has pumpkins, zuccas, rosemary, and other good stuff.
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Mutant corn rootworm in Illinois defying Monsanto GMO corn
Mutant pigweed here, mutant rootworm there, pretty soon no Monsanto pest protection anywhere.
Carey Gillam wrote for Reuters 28 August 2013, GMO corn failing to protect fields from pest damage: report
(Reuters)—Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a rotation with a genetically modified corn that is supposed to protect the crop from the pests, according to a new report.
Evidence gathered from fields in two Illinois counties suggests that pest problems are mounting as the rootworms grow ever more resistant to efforts to fight them, including crop rotation combined with use of the biotech corn, according to the report issued by Michael Gray, a professor of crop sciences at the University of Illinois.
Here’s the report, by Michael Gray in U. Illinois Bulletin, 27 August 2012, Severe Corn Rootworm Injury to Bt Hybrids in First-Year Corn Confirmed, Continue reading