This weekend has been busy...starting on Friday with a visit to the Farmers Market in Forest Park GA (aka Atlanta's State Farmers Market). The farmers market is open year-round, but the Georgia Grown farmers do not arrive until late April or Early May. Normally, their first crop to arrive from South Georgia are Vidalia onions....and yes, they have arrived!
On this visit, I met Wendall Kight and his wife from B&B Farms in Uvalda, GA (located 18 miles south of Vidali, GA in Tombs Co.) They were over-flowing with Vidalia onions and soon will have cabbage and squash available. Farmers in neighboring stalls will have tomatoes, cantalopes, watermelons, bush and string beans and peaches available beginning in 2-3 weeks and lasting throughout the 2009 season.
Looks like Jake's will be opening in a few weeks with the help of our South Georgia farmers. We anticipate crops from North Georgia not becoming available until early July. We still have a few loose ends to tie before the opening....but obtaining Georgia locally grown crops has been the biggest goal.
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