Harvesting Cotton in Georgia - The Cotton Bowl!! It's cotton harvest season in Georgia! Check out this field of cotton ready for picking. The kids have never seen cotton before. So we had to stop and let them pick some! Just take a little bit. That's fully natural. It grows just like that. A whole field of it here in Georgia. That's the land of cotton right there. That's how it grows, just like that. They have machines that come along and harvest it. This is the cotton bowl, it's called. B-O-L-L

Threatening human life, natural resources and biodiversity, the cotton plant has wreaked havoc over the years in the slave trade, farming and industry. Join Dr Cassandra Gooptar, Lecturer in Legacies of Slavery at the University of Hull, and Inemesit Ukpanah, environmental sustainability expert, in this episode of Dangerous Plants to find out more about how cotton has been dangerous for centuries - and continues to be so. Listen now by searching 'BBC Gardeners' World Magazine' wherever you get y

Cotton processing