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By Dawn Azok
Taylor Boozer Hatchett didn’t grow up on a farm, but she has a passion for tending the land and sharing its bounty like many who did.
Her father, Bobby Boozer, worked with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and Auburn University and spent his 26-year career helping farmers throughout the state, particularly fruit growers.
As a child, Hatchett sometimes tagged along with him on farm visits, while he scouted orchards, inspected crops, set out insect traps and visited with farmers. As she grew older, she and her family helped sell peaches for local farmers and eventually planted their own peach trees and other crops, establishing Boozer Farms in Chilton County as a fledgling summer project.
Alabama-grown: Chilton County farmer cultivates her dream at Boozer Farms
By Dawn Azok April 7, 2021
Taylor Boozer Hatchett runs Boozer Farms in Thorsby with her father, Bobby Boozer, who spent nearly three decades helping farmers across the state through Auburn University and the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service. (contributed)
Taylor Boozer Hatchett didn’t grow up on a farm, but she has a passion for tending the land and sharing its bounty like many who did.
Her father, Bobby Boozer, worked with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and Auburn University and spent his 26-year career helping farmers throughout the state, particularly fruit growers.
Times Staff Report
The 2021 Food Entrepreneur Conference sponsored by the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service will be held online April 13-14, and the keynote speaker will be a familiar face to Gadsden-area residents.
Chip Rowan, a Gadsden City Schools educator, will detail the inspiring story of the Beautiful Rainbow Café in the Gadsden Public Library.
Rowan founded Beautiful Rainbow, which functions as a successful food service operation and an employer/trainer of students with learning disabilities. Twenty-two students have graduated from the program and are now employed in other local establishments.
The conference is designed to help beginning and growing food manufacturers learn more about the business and make contacts with people who can help them succeed. It’s an excellent networking and educational opportunity.
Why do Bradford pear trees smell like.that?
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
The trees are beautiful. Those Callery pear trees, known regionally as Bradford pears, are large and covered with white, five-petaled flowers, native to China and Vietnam. You’ve seen them bloom and flourish for several weeks in Alabama now, and you likely knew they were here before you ever laid eyes on them.
Because, well, they stink. But what
is that smell? You can’t quite place it. Not quite harsh or bitter enough to think it’s a dead animal in the vicinity of the tree. No, it’s the tree. It smells a bit rotten, kind of a fishy odor. But why does such a stunning natural creation like the Bradford pear tree smell so bad?