Gretchen with tomatoes from one day:
Gretchen with tomatoes from one day
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 12 July 2012.
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Advanced sheets-Field operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1917
What was your county like a hundred years ago, roads, houses, streams, ponds, and soils? Digital Library of Georgia in association with the University of Georgia Map Library has made available old soil maps from around 1910-1920 online in a viewer that can pan and zoom. Detail of Cat Creek Road, Lowndes County, Georgia in 1917:
Detail of Cat Creek Road
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman, Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Screenshot by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 13 July 2012.
The soils haven't changed much (Tf is Tifton A soil, for example), but the roads and houses have, and many streams have been dammed for ponds.
They seem to have all Georgia counties. Here's Tift County in 1910 and Cook County in 1931.
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Owed to Don Davis of the Lowndes County Museum at the 11 July 2012 WWALS Watershed Coalition meeting.
Feeding Tom the spider
Feeding Tom the house spider.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 9 July 2012.
The circle in the bottom right is where I set the bug in Tom’s web. He came right out and got it.
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Gretchen in the Okra
Taller than she is:
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 8 July 2012.
A lot of okra:
A day at the market: Valdosta Farm Days 7 July 2012
Terry Davis picking corn:
Terry Davis picking corn
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 July 2012.
Okra, potato, pepper, plus cornbread muffins and collard seeds:
Bathroom spider
The spider that keeps insects out of the bathroom:
The spider that keeps insects out of the bathroom
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 8 July 2012.
It likes that little stool I put there for it! Some people have aquariums….
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Picking Peppers at Okra Paradise Farms 5 July 2012
Gretchen picks peppers every day, and right now she's baking pepper muffins to take to Valdosta Farm Days at the historic Lowndes County Courthouse. Brown Dog and Yellow Dog helping:
Brown Dog and Yellow Dog helping Gretchen Quarterman pick peppers.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 5 July 2012.
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Dr. Elsie Quarterman, Prof Emerita of Plant Ecology, Vanderbilt, 101 years and 7 months
Patrick, Gretchen, Elsie, Ann:
Patrick, Gretchen, Elsie, Ann
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Nashville, Tennessee, 2 July 2012.
Elsie, Patrick, Ann:
Continue readingGarden size check
Picked 60 pounds of okra and more is flowering. There's a bee on one of those flowers:
Picked 60 pounds of okra and more is flowering
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 3 July 2012.
Pumpkins keep getting bigger:
Continue readingGrowing Pumpkin, Okra Paradise Farms, 29 June 2012
These three pumpkins doubled in size between 26 and 29 June.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 June 2012.
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