Tag Archives: zucchini

Potatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, and rosemary

Gretchen took this yellow squash and zucchini to

Wiregrass Farmers Market in Tifton, GA
this morning,
along with fresh-plowed potatoes, rosemary, and of course heirloom corn grits.

Yellow squash and zuchinni

That’s 9AM to noon, behind the Country Store at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture (Agrirama),
1392 Whiddon Mill Road, Tifton GA 31794.

Did you know zucchini is actually a fruit, even though it’s cooked and eaten as a vegetable?
And the name is Italian, because the type we eat today was developed in Italy,
even though like all squash its ancestors came from the Americas?
More about Cucurbita pepo, also known as courgette or vegetable marrow,
by Master Gardener Laurel Reader,

Zucchini:
A Treat in the Heat
.

Cutting rosemary

Market day doesn’t smell right without rosemary. Continue reading

Roundup and gluten sensitivity

Likely effects of dousing
90+% of all corn, soybeans, peanuts, and cotton grown in Georgia
(and elsewhere)
in Roundup and other toxic chemicals,
often drifting onto other people’s land, schools, shops,
and churches.
It’s not that hard to grow the same crops without those poisons
and without the toxic seeds that require them;
not that hard and more profitable.

Yes, I know Jeffrey M. Smith is not a biological scientist
or medical doctor.
But many of the sources he cites are.

Posted by MyScienceAcademy
29 November 2013,

GMOs linked to gluten disorders plaguing 18 million Americans – report



The IRT release also indicated that glyphosate, a weed killer sold
under the brand name ‘Roundup’ was also found to have a negative
effect on intestinal bacteria. GMO crops contain high levels of the
toxin at harvest.

“Even with minimal exposure, glyphosate can significantly
reduce the population of beneficial gut bacteria and promote the
overgrowth of harmful strains,” the report found.

Continue reading

One Day’s Pickings

Picked one day: 34 poundsMust remember to go to the garden every day; this is what happens with one day skipped. Corn, cucumber, zucchini, watermelon, yellow squash, tomato, buttercup, butternut, and eggplant. 34 pounds.

The zucchini are playing out; most of these we wouldn’t have bothered picking a week ago. The tomato, corn, and watermelon are new this picking.