{"id":36,"date":"2013-01-02T16:36:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T21:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/soga-growing-local-sustainable-conference.html"},"modified":"2013-01-02T16:36:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T21:36:02","slug":"soga-growing-local-sustainable-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/soga-growing-local-sustainable-conference.html","title":{"rendered":"SoGa Growing Local & Sustainable Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI think this is the third year of a fascinating conference\nthat started when some people in south Georgia realized\nnobody else was going to talk about what it takes\nto grow local sustainable food here below the gnat line\nin this longleaf pine land of tea-colored rivers, acid soil,\nand rich gardening traditions. -jsq\n<\/p>\n

\nRed Earth Farm<\/a>\n\nJanisse Ray<\/a> present:\n

\n\nSoGa Growing Local & Sustainable Conference<\/a><\/h2>\n

\nA day-long, information-rich, action-packed, affordable\nconference designed to get you healthier and save you money.\n<\/p>\n

\n\n\"\"\nfacebook event<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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When and Where:<\/h4>\n9AM to 6PM, Jan. 26, 2013\n
\nTattnall County High School,\n
\nHighway 23\/57 South,\n
\n(1 Battle Creek Warrior Blvd)\n
\nReidsville, GA 30453\n

Registration:<\/h4>\nPDF<\/a>,\nWord<\/a>\n
\n$30 before Jan. 15;\n
\n$45 afterwards.\n
\nIncludes lunch.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nMany do-it-yourself workshops in homesteading and country living:\nmushroom culture, beekeeping, backyard chickens, soil-building,\nsmall fruit production, economics, gardening for wildlife,\ncharcuterie, natural cleaning, fermentation, herbs on the menu,\nnatural cleaning & body care products, making jams & jellies,\nvermiculture, weed management, marketing, everything you need to\nknow about small farming. Ladies Homestead Gathering, seed-saving.\nAnd so much more….\n<\/p>\n

\nConference actually starts on Friday with a\npotluck, reading & a showing of the film “Grow.”\n<\/p>\n

\nFor more information see Registration on the left here,\nor email redearthfarm at yahoo.\n<\/p>\n

\n\n\"\"<\/a>\nGretchen Quarterman will be giving a workshop at the Growing Local\nconference: Beginning lesson on home made jams and jellies. What\nyou’ll need (not much) to start making delicious sweets from fruits\nthat are easily available.\n<\/p>\n

\n\n\"\"<\/a>\nInspirational gardener & naturalist Ellen Corrie of Tifton, Ga. will\nbe teaching a workshop on Gardening for Wildlife at the Growing Local\nconference Jan. 26. This presentation will look at how gardening\nfor wildlife makes your garden (whatever size) healthier and helps\nrestore habitat and preserve biodiversity. There’ll be an overview of\nfactors which need to be considered to attract and keep any wildlife or\nbeneficial general. I’ll focus on pollinators and specific practices\nand plants to attract them. \u2014 with Leeann Drabenstott Culbreath\nand Dan Corrie.\n<\/p>\n

\n\n\"\"<\/a>\nAlbert Kipple Culbreath will be teaching a Mushroom-Growing Workshop\nat the conference. Inoculation and care of logs for production of\nshiitake and oyster mushrooms. Will include information on where to\nobtain supplies, how to handle logs, which type logs to use, care\nfor the logs, and culinary uses. Sign up now. \u2014 with Leeann\nDrabenstott Culbreath.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I think this is the third year of a fascinating conference that started when some people in south Georgia realized nobody else was going to talk about what it takes to grow local sustainable food here below the gnat line in this longleaf pine land of tea-colored rivers, acid soil, and rich gardening traditions. -jsq […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,39,40,41,42,43,44,6],"tags":[2761,2773,53,4,2774,2775,2776,2777,3,51,2778,47,5,2,2760,48,49,50,52],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-community","category-economy","category-food","category-food-and-drink","category-gardening","category-health","category-okra-paradise-farms","tag-agriculture","tag-community","tag-conference","tag-day-month-year","tag-economy","tag-food","tag-food-and-drink","tag-gardening","tag-georgia","tag-growing-local","tag-health","tag-janisse-ray","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-red-earth-farm","tag-soga","tag-south-georgia","tag-sustainable"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}