Gretchen and the LeConte Pear tree.
We might get some pears this year.
Thanks to the cousin who gave this tree to us.
And the nineteenth century cousin who found it. Here’s a story about that. Margie Love, Coastal Courier, originally 16 September 2007, updated 26 September 2011, Liberty’s LeConte pear was once famous.
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Seen through a window screen.
It’s the state bird of Georgia, a Brown Thrasher. Continue reading
When you live in a fire forest, you must burn every few years. We caught up on about 23 acres of burning of piney woods, seepage slope, and swamp. All this was inside concentric rings of firebreaks, with no danger of it escaping off our property.
Don’t worry, for the wildlife there are plenty of brambles and woods and swamp unburned this year. More next year. And quail, gopher tortoises, and other wildlife don’t like the woods too thick anyway.
![[Gretchen spreading fire with a rake]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-03-01--burn/20200301_121754.jpg)
Gretchen spreading fire with a rake
For why we burn, see Continue reading
A very tiny spring or seep.
Brown Dog thinks it’s a puddle, but it never goes dry.
Next to it is a sycamore tree.
Gretchen likes sycamores.
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Here’s why we should have burned this patch last year, but unfortunately weather didn’t cooperate.
![[Why frequent burning is necessary]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-02-24--burn/20200224_143426.jpg)
Why frequent burning is necessary
If we didn’t burn, eventually what we’d get would be an uncontrolled wildfire with much worse flareups than that.
Somebody always complains about burning woods. Let the Longleaf Alliance explain the benefits of fire in a southern pine forest.
It started easy this year. Continue reading
Our restaurant customer came to pick up some produce.
You’ll be able to eat these greens and grits at 401 West, St. Marys, GA. Continue reading
Only one, but we grew it.
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After a few hours of hacking and tractor-mowing Japanese Climbing Fern and Chinese Privet, this is what my shirt looked like:
Everybody wears a white shirt to work in the woods, right?
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Tom H. Johnson Jr. and Mary Caroline Pindar wanted to see the garden at Okra Paradise Farms.
Abelmoschus esculentus, okra, lady’s fingers, gumbo, ngombo, bhindi, vendakkai, and many other names. Possibly from West Africa, or Ethiopia, or South Asia. Requires full sun and hot temperatures with good soil. Continue reading
![[Sniff]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-03-02--pear/20200302_125715.jpg)
![[Smile]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-03-02--pear/20200302_125717.jpg)
![[Hop]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-03-30--thrasher/20200330_090743.jpg)
![[Brown Dog in spring]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-03-15--triangle-spring-sycamore/20200315_102759.jpg)
![[Who, me?]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-03-15--triangle-spring-sycamore/20200315_102802.jpg)
![[Gretchen with a sycamore tree]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-03-15--triangle-spring-sycamore/20200315_102924.jpg)
