Colquitt, Georgia, is  in the “Land Between the Rivers”, so called because the Chattahoochees River divides Alabama and Georgia and the Flint River snakes from middle Georgia south westward to join the Chattahoochee at Lake Seminole Together  they become the Apalachicola river and run into the Gulf of Mexico. Apalachicola Bay oysters are world famous but are now threatened by the crisis cuased by the oil gushing into the Gulf.

Colquitt is located 15 miles East of the Chattahoochee and 15 miles West of the Flint and about 20 miles North of Lake Seminole. No wonder this area is considered a fisherman’s paradise. One of the few spring-fed creeks in Georgia runs through our city park. The native Americans considered this area a place of great spiritual power because three ecological zones come together here.  The convergence of the Piedmont plains, where the crops are grown, the wetlands (swamps) and the Rivers create a powerful earth energy. The Native Americans built Kolomoki Mounds as their ceremonial grounds in response to this spiritual energy. Colquitt is sitting on one of the largest supplies of underground water in the world. Three large aquafirs are under our feet.

This is an area of beautiful crops:  peanuts, cotton, corn primarily. In July the land is green and beautiful thanks to the abundant supply of underground water available for irrigation.

In 1992 when Swamp Gravy was just starting we interviewed an elderly man who said that the Garden of Eden was not way over yonder. It was right here where the three rivers come together like the Bible says. “Yes sir, Ole What’s his name and his girl friend lived right here in this land between the Rivers.”