{"id":1770,"date":"2014-01-26T10:06:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T15:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2014-01-26T10:08:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T15:08:40","slug":"sogalo14-farm-tours-in-the-vdt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/sogalo14-farm-tours-in-the-vdt.html","title":{"rendered":"SOGALO14 Farm Tours in the VDT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nMost of the front page of the Valdosta Daily Times Saturday\r\nwas about the South Georgia Growing Local 2014 \r\nFarm Tours<\/a>.\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nStuart Taylor wrote on the front page of the VDT 25 January 2014,\r\n\r\nGrowing Local Farm Tour gets under way<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nWhile past South Georgia Growing Local conferences have had\r\nself-guided farm tours, this year’s conference offered a guided tour\r\nthrough four local farms, starting off Friday morning at Raisin’\r\nCane.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n“We teach people about agriculture,” said Jessica\r\nBolesta, who runs Raisin’ Cane along with her family.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nIt’s one of the latest agri-tourism spots to pop up across the state\r\nin the past couple of years….\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“One of the great things about the tour and farming in general\r\ndown here is a lot of us are doing experiments,” said Gretchen\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nQuarterman, organizer of this year’s\r\n\r\nGrowing Local Conference<\/a>.\r\n“We’re just trying stuff out and if it works, we do it. If it\r\ndoesn’t, we try something else.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThere was a mix of seasoned farmers, back yard gardeners and people\r\ninterested in getting into growing. People like Martha Griffis.\r\nAfter decades of working as a full-time nurse, she’s planning to\r\nretire, and while she hasn’t decided what she wants to do yet, she’s\r\nthinking she might get into farming, maybe olives, maybe citrus,\r\nmaybe something else.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nThe tour continued on to Loch Laurel Nursery, Georgia Olive Farms\r\nand Hound River Farms.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nNot bad for a place that usually thinks of tractors as old-fashioned.\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n

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