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Making beautyberry jelly 2025-10-11

Smells good while doing this.

Pouring beautyberry jelly into jars

Very tasty later as jelly.

American Beautyberry,
Callicarpa americana.

This is the same plant whose leaves repel mosquitos, yellowflies, and other insects.

-jsq

Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School 2014-07-12

Even more fun and twice as many people at

my second canning class
at the Lowndes High School Canning Plant.

Thanks to James Perdue and the

Valdosta Community Garden Group for organizing.

These pictures are also on
my facebook timeline.

See also shelling peas at
the 19 June 2014 class.

-gretchen

: 720×540 Martha Griffis and her corn, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

: 720×540 Silver Queen corn by Martha Griffis, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

: 720×540 Group gets information about the steamer and blancher, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

: 720×540 Juicer, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

: 720×540 More about the juicer, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

: 720×540 Corn into the steamer, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

: 720×540 Coring peaches, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

: 720×540 Almost ready for the juicer, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

: 720×540 Lids and rings sterilized, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

: 720×540 Chopping up the peaches, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

: 720×540 Creaming corn, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

: 720×540 Fruit into juicer, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

: 720×540 Finished product: peach jam, in Canning corn and peaches at Lowndes High School, by Gretchen Quarterman, for OkraParadiseFarms.com, 12 July 2014, http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2014/07/home-canning-class-and-canning-plant-demonstration-2.html

Canning at Lowndes High School

Our outing today to the canning plant was a grand success. We had peas shelled, blanched and bagged and canned some peaches!

The canning plant at Lowndes High School is a wonderful resource
in Lowndes County open now to the public for shelling, canning and
more. Behind the Lowndes High School on Norman Drive.

Here are pictures from the

canning class I taught there yesterday,
organized by the

Valdosta Community Garden group.
These pictures are also
on facebook.

Perfect timing. The Valdosta Daily Times had Continue reading →

Pepper Jelly

Where did those peppers Gretchen picked a week ago go? Into jars:

Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 July 2012.

That jar lifter is the best tool we own.

-jsq

Beautyberry flowers

Tiny white purplish flowers in a bunch:

Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) at Okra Paradise Farms

by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 4 June 2008.

Growing along the stems of a green-smelling bush:

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