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When Cassandra and Gary Wiseman bought 185 acres of land in rural Jackson County, they envisioned preserving the land through sustainable forestry stewardship. Over the next decade, they recognized the
Nine specialty crop industry professionals were honored on Jan. 8 at the 2022 Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference.
Amicalola Regional Farmers Market to open April 17 For the first season of the market, it was able to be set up in the new "Dawsonville Farmers Market" pavilion near City Hall. - photo by Erica Schmidt In just a little over a week, the Amicalola Regional Farmers Market will officially open for the first day of the 2021 season on Saturday, April 17. According to a post by the market, this year’s hours will be from 8 a.m. until noon Saturdays, and from 2:30-7 p.m., Wednesdays and Fridays. “We have lots of your favorite ...
March 9, 2021 From left, Josh Fuder, Ray Covington and Stephen Mihm have been UGA’s driving forces behind the creation of the Heritage Apple Orchard. (Photo by Mike Terrazas) The names tick off like racehorses or colors from some fancy catalog: Carolina Red June, Duchess of Oldenburg, Hewe’s Crab and Rabun Bald, Limbertwig and Nickajack and Parks’ Pippin, and many more. But these aren’t paint chips—they’re apples, hundreds of varieties that thrived in orchards across North Georgia a century ago, before an evolving apple industry swept them off shelves and tables, never to return. ...