{"id":4118,"date":"2016-01-21T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2016-01-24T19:44:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T00:44:38","slug":"video-this-has-really-turned-into-a-thing-chris-beckham-about-south-georgia-growing-local-to-gretchen-quarterman-on-wvga-105-9-fm-2016-01-20-sogalo16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/video-this-has-really-turned-into-a-thing-chris-beckham-about-south-georgia-growing-local-to-gretchen-quarterman-on-wvga-105-9-fm-2016-01-20-sogalo16.html","title":{"rendered":"Video: “This has really turned into a thing” –Chris Beckham about South Georgia Growing Local to Gretchen Quarterman on WVGA 105.9 FM 2016-01-20 @ SOGALO16"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n\r\nYou can\r\n\r\nregister today for South Georgia Growing Local 2016<\/a>,\r\nto be held all day Saturday February 6th at Pine Grove Middle School.\r\nChris Beckham was struck by the variety: corn, chicken, fruits, goats, soap, composting, water, worms, solar power!\r\nSo many different topics in six tracks, “but all indigenous to South Georgia.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nGretchen replied,\r\n

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\r\nIndeed,\r\nwhen this conference started six years ago,\r\nwe just had two tracks.\r\nOne was about cooking, and one was about growing,\r\npest control, and fertilizing, and how to have your garden be successful\r\nin the special conditions of south Georgia and north Florida.\r\nBecause our conditions here are different than they are in north Georgia\r\nor on the coast, or farther south in Florida where it never freezes.\r\nWe sort of have a very special environment here, and so this conference\r\nis geared towards that.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nLots of new and repeat talks; see the\r\n\r\n\r\ndraft schedule<\/a>.\r\nIndividual sessions are being blogged daily<\/a>.\r\nSome that Gretchen mentioned are\r\nBread 101<\/a> by Arica Griner,\r\n\r\nLesser known crops of the coastal plain<\/a> by Bret Wagenhorst,\r\nTips and Tools<\/a> by Christine Hagen,\r\nCountry cure meats<\/a>, by Derrick Dawson, Sr.,\r\nand\r\nGoats and soaps at Serenity Acres Farm<\/a>, by Julia Shewchuk.\r\nMany not yet blogged, including\r\nValdosta City School Gardens by Joshua Dawson, on introducing children to fruits and vegetables, when many of them have never seen a blueberry,\r\nand Urban Farming by Stewart Douglas.\r\n

\r\nAs Gretchen said,\r\nit’s about food, and it’s about economy and community!\r\nAnd please\r\n\r\nregister today for South Georgia Growing Local 2016<\/a>\r\nso she can tell the caterer how many are coming.\r\n

\r\nHere’s\r\n\r\nthe video:<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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