Farming
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Athens-Clarke County
Locavores Unite: How Athens Restaurants Utilize Local Food In Menus
Visit any Athens restaurant and you’re likely to be hit with a board of specials, often containing a multitude of locally sourced ingredients. Differentiating itself from mass produced ingredients, local food is produced within a short distance of where it is consumed. Just as carnivores and herbivores eat strictly meat…
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Athens-Clarke County
Organic, Traditionally Grown Produce Show Mixed Environmental Benefits
Sarah Thurman is proud of the growth that the Athens Farmers Market has experienced since she took over as market manager three years ago. In that time, she says that she has seen the number of visitors who stop by the market almost every Saturday morning from March through December…
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Environment
How Collin McIntyre Is Creating His Own Potato Hybrids To Stop Spread Of Plant Viruses
Collin McIntyre has been gardening since he was young. He loves to plant and grow flowers, fruits and vegetables and watch things that he nurtures grow and produce fruit. For the past several years, Collin has been working on creating new hybrid plants that are unique to him. I think…
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Athens-Clarke County
Sustainable Agriculture as Welfare and Healthcare
When the sun rises and many people are still fast asleep, Matthew Schneider and the other employees of the Hickory Hill Farm are already awake and working in the fields. From 7 a.m. to noon or later, Schneider harvests produce that he will later sell at the Athens Farmers Market.…
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Athens-Clarke County
Georgia Peanut Farmers Yield Largest Crop in Two Decades
Peanut farmers in Georgia are yielding their largest crop in nearly two decades. According to Dr. Darlene Cowart, the Corporate Director of Food Safety and Quality at Birdsong Peanuts, said that simply there were more planted acres throughout the state of Georgia this current season. But, that isn’t the only…
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Athens-Clarke County
Drought Has Effect on Local Farms
ATHENS, Ga. — If you are tired of all the rain we have been getting recently, you may not want to wish it away. The reason – is because we still need it. There may have been an increase in rain lately, but the drought is far from over. Green…