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Valdosta Farm Days returns Saturday 21 April 2012

Returning for its second year, Valdosta Farm Days starts this Saturday:

When: 9AM-1PM Saturday 21 April 2012 Where: Historic Lowndes County Courthouse, 100 East Central Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia

There's a list of vendors on VFD's web page. See also their facebook page.

Support local agriculture and buy direct from area farmers while shopping at Downtown Valdosta Farm Days.

The market presents producers from the surrounding areas of Lowndes County offering fresh fruit, vegetables and so much more.

Come for the freshness and stay for the fun at Downtown Valdosta Farm Days!

At the market, you'll find locally-grown, locally-raised, locally-produced fruits and vegetables, plants, herbs, meats, farm-fresh eggs and dairy products, baked and prepared foods, snacks, and coffee. You'll also find a variety of artisan and natural value-added products including products made from recycled goods, birdhouses, handmade soaps and body products, candles, gift baskets, and honey products.

Oh, look! Potatoes from Okra Paradise Farms! OPF won't actually have those there this weekend (they only just bloomed last week), but stay tuned for later Valdosta Farm Days!

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Planting taters at Okra Paradise Farms 2012 02 19

Terry Davis and Gretchen Quarterman cutting taters in half before planting. (Yes, that's my thumb.)

Here's a slideshow:

Sneaky Yellow Dog Sneaky Yellow Dog

What's that yellow dog up to?

Pictures of Gretchen Quarterman and Yellow Dog at Okra Paradise Farms
by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 6 February 2012.

Not digging, she hopes? We just planted potatoes there! Here's a slideshow:

Dirt igloo door (sweet potato curing mound)

The slideshow of the building of the dirt igloo for the sweet potatoes ended before the adding of the door. So here's the door, in place, with reference yellow dog:

Pictures of sweet potato curing teepee
by John S. Quarterman, 8 September 2011,
Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia.
Yellow Dog was busy tracking something, so didn't stay to pose.

The door is on the north side. It's six pieces of 2x6" pine, each 18" long, three vertical and three horizontal, screwed together, and set inside the doorposts. Here's a closeup:

White potatoes 11 June 2011

We dug some more white potatoes today.

Picture by Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 11 June 2011.

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Sweet potatoes

Gretchen in the sweet potatoes in the corn field:

They're blooming; maybe they're making 'taters.

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