Made a pitch for a steering committee to work on Ft. McPherson during the smmer at at GaStandUp's monthly meeting of the alliance. Having Ft. McPherson on my mind, here are some food for thoughts from this morning's AJC and yesterday's Financial Times.
Former Gov. Roy Barnes, also a former chicken owner, won the dismissal of a case against chickens in Roswell City's case against chickens dismissed | ajc.com
This got me to thinking that maybe Chik-filet would sponsor a wonderful pavilion and open air park for visitors and children to walk among exotic chickens an"d other fowls at Ft. Mc Pherson. My neighbor Jeb Ireland brings me beautiful blue eggs of some exotic chicken that he swears does not have cholesterol. Jeb has peacocks. I don't know about turkeys. But in the same ajc Charles Seabrook described watching what he said is "North America's most beautiful duck: the multicolored male wood duck" at the Shepherd Nature Preserve which he visited with Lisa Hurt of the Atlanta Audubon Society after his drive with the Georgia Botanical Society where they saw an incredible array of wildflowers "never straying more than a few feet from the roadside."
Now don't you imagine if you'd been cooped up in a meeting and were riding MARTA to the ATL airport, you wouldn't want to get off and spend an hour strolling (jogging or biking) thru the native and not so native flora and fauna. And bring the family next time for your little girl to follow a nice old local lady into an elegant chicken coop "Cluck cluck, not like granny's. Stick your hand under Ms. Mc Pherson's not fearsome, and fetch out that warm egg." Feed the ducks. Oooh, they lay eggs too. And the lady peacock.
Maybe another bizness will keep the ponds stocked with catfish Maybe SaraLee or the Green Giant, or someone the Southern Farmers Co-op brings in will sponsor the pick y'r own, see it grown, Georgia peach cobbler, pecan pie, black eyed peas, greens, corn bread, buttermilk and sweet iced tea, you can eat in, take to eat on the plane, since they don't feed you anymore, or ala Maine lobster, take expensively packaged home.
These beautiful exhibitions of Georgia's leading industry: agriculture, would also be exhibits of the latest green tech (solar collector paint --- nb: sponsored Ga. Tech students in Paris) for agriculture
AND if the Ga Regents want to use: I, at least, would go for Luther Burbank (some corp should be eager to underwrite McPherson anti-fear of agricultural experiments to cross black eyed peas and soybeans to produce a higher protein pea or better tasting soy bean
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