By: Blake Williams
This is Scotty Hall, owner and operator of Hall Farming in Covena, Georgia. He was gracious to show me around the farm.
This is where Mr. Hall usually plans deer corn. Over the last two years, he has experimented with a dove field combination for dove season.
In a month or two, he plans to mow this corn down. "Whenever you scatter it over the field the doves will come and eat the mess out of it," Hall said.
Here is one of Mr. Hall's tractors. He uses this one in his smaller gardens to mow over crops.
This is his small garden. Here he plans potatoes, sweet corn, and squash.
Here, he is digging up some potatoes. "I hate to say it but farmers that will just grow for the family are becoming a dying breed," Hall said.
This is what the potatoes look as soon as you pull them out of the ground. You have to plant potatoes to grow potatoes.
Look at how big and red these are. They might look dirty to you, but wash them off and chop them up and you can have some good french fries.
Mr. Hall picks at least a bucket a day. "Me and the wife will never eat all of these but I know some people who will happily take them.
Mr. Hall explained that he didn't grow these onions himself but the people who did grew too much and gave him a crate. "I won't eat all of these, I'll probably sell them by the bucket," Hall said.
Mr. Hall puts all of his groceries inside for the air conditioner to help them good. In here, he washes off and packs the produce up.
This is a vacuum machine. Here, Mr. Scotty vacuum seals all of his groceries so they will stay good for a long time in the freezer.
This is one of the squash plants. Mr. Hall uses them for squash casserole, squash boats, and just eating them fried.
This looks like your average outhouse. However, this is just a building over a septic tank.
This is his second field. Currently, he is just growing pine trees on the other side.
This is a planter. It hooks up to the back of the tractor, put seeds in the buckets, till and plant.
They don’t look blue yet, but these are blueberries. They’ll be used for jam and pie.
This is one of four pear trees. “The frost that came around the first of the year about wiped them out, but they’re still kicking,” Hall said.
This is the pole barn that Mr. Hall keeps his farm vehicles under. You can see his lawnmowers, ATV, and farm truck.
Lastly, Mr. Hall wanted me to take a picture of his redneck edition sticker. “Take a picture with a little more chest hair,” Hall said.
