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Niman Ranch

Q&A with Steve Esau of Niman Ranch What’s your definition of sustainable food? Definition of Sustainable: Ask 10 different people and you will get 11 different answers as the first person will want to change their answer by the time they hear the 10th person’s definition. But to tell you the truth, that’s okay because [...]

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Noring Farms

Q & A with Farmer What prepared you to be a farmer?I basically grew up on the farm located across the street and spent a lot of time in the fields.  Some of my fondest memories from childhood are picking bushels of corn in the morning and grilling some of them for lunch in the [...]

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Pick-Your-Own

Family Pickin’ Connect with the Earth and visit PICK-YOUR-OWN Farms in Georgia Enota Mountain Retreat 1000 Highway 180, Hiawassee, GA 30546 Dr. Suan Freed, 706.896.9966 enota@enota.com Enota is a 60-acre sustainable organic farm,campground, and retreat center on ancient Cherokee land in the beautiful Georgia Mountains, surrounded by the Chattahoochee National Forest. Our propertycontains waterfalls, crystal-clear [...]

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Farmers Markets in Surrounding Atlanta

Alpharetta Farmers Market Located under an old oak tree in historic downtown Alpharetta, this market is open Saturdays, 8am-1pm, starting in late April through October. Named “Best Saturday Morning Excursion” in 2007 by Atlanta Magazine. Address City parking lot behind Smokejack Grill Alpharetta, GA 30004 Name: Paula Guilbeau Tel: 770.844.1462 Email: hansonfarms@comcast.net Website: www.alpharettafarmersmarket.com College Park [...]

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Dillwood Farms

Dillwood Farms is owned and operated by Doug and Rosetta Dillard, George’s son and daughter-in-law.  It is their hope and dream that the love that George Dillard and his family had for this land can be fulfilled through the development of sustainable organic products. While Dillwood Farms is currently seeking organic certification, their objective is [...]

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TaylOrganics

TaylOrganic Farm is a family-owned and operated farm just southeast of the Atlanta perimeter in Henry County, Georgia. Neil and Marcia Taylor along with dedicated local workers grow some of the finest Southern vegetables, figs, and berries in the Southeast. You can also purchase additional fruit shares, egg shares, and in the summer months we [...]

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Crystal Organics

Nicolas Donck was born in Belgium and moved here to this land in Georgia when he was 16. He just recently became a dual citizen of Belgium and the USA. He graduated from UGA with a degree in international business but quickly realized that his heart belonged to farming. Crystal Organic Farm was started (initially [...]

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Moore Farms & Friends

Moore Farms is proud to represent a growing number of local and regional food producers. Our goals are to increase the availability of foods produced in the Southeast U.S., our grower’s sales opportunities and your local food choices.   Production practices are of the utmost importance to us. Everyone we represent is either Certified USDA Organic, [...]

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Woodland Gardens

Celia Barss of Woodland Gardens is a certified organic market garden in Winterville, Georgia. We currently grow a wide variety of vegetables, micro greens, herbs, fruit and flowers intensively on 6 acres, year-round using unheated and heated greenhouses to help extend our seasons in the colder months. We attend Morningside Farmers Market in the Virginia-Highlands [...]

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Gum Creek Farms and Farmer Jeff

Farmer Jeff has about 3 aces in production and grows a wide assortment of heirloom vegetables, herbs, potted plants and small fruit. The goal of the farm is to develop a system that blends Organics, Permculture and Biodynamics into a productive sustainable enterprise. Farmer Jeff sells his unique products to local CSA’s, farmers markets and [...]

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