This jar is of dehydrated pumpkin fruit. The pumpkin was first grown on the BP Devo farm (Bullet Proof Devotion) and then powdered.Owner Tyler Woods tells when rehydrated the pint of powder can produce four 10-inch pies.“It stores very well,”Woods sai
Robin Champion, baker of 18 years with her business Champion Cakes, created colorful hand-painted pie-shell cookies to add to the crust of her pumpkin pie contest entry.
Tyler Woods of the online ministry BP Devo (Bullet Proof Devotion) calls himself something of a chef. He enjoys cooking. He’s also a former Baptist pastor of 40 years and business person of 20 years. After moving to Atlanta six years ago from the Corpus
Brenda Morgan, volunteer with the Atlanta Area Chamber of Commerce, is helping to organize the pumpkin baking contest with the Gobble Wobble event Saturday.
Gobble Wobble 5K Run
Yes, the Atlanta Area Chamber of Commerce’s first Gobble Wobble 5K run and Drumstick Dash Saturday attracted runners -- from ones just a few years old to others several decades old.
And everyone seemed to enjoy this morning exercise just before Thanksgiving.
But the most fun may have been had by those in the best-tasting pumpkin pie contest. Everyone got to participate because at the end of the judging, the pies were open for eating. There were nine of them.
The winner of the pie contest, Jodi Garrison, got a blue ribbon, picture taken for the newspaper, and bragging rights for the rest of the year, according to Jill Crocker, president of the chamber.
Another activity on this fine fall day was over in the bowling lane. How about trying to knock down those pins with a frozen turkey as the bowling ball? It was called turkey bowling. Everyone was as much interested in the “roll” as in the “rack.”
There were other tables of interest at the Mattie Lanier Community Center. The public seemed impressed with so much wobbling going on. Gobble Wobble is kind of a community carnival.
This first edition will likely be followed by more.