All Natural Non-GMO and Non-Hybrid Fruits and Vegetables that give our communities the best options for High-End, High Frequency foods.
Following only California and Florida, Georgia is ranked third in overall fresh market and processing vegetable plantings, harvesting, production and value of production, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The state’s benefit is its dirt. “It’s our diversity of soil types,” says Will McGehee, partner with Genuine Georgia Group, which grows and markets peaches, pecans and apples from Fort Valley, GA. “Everything starts with the dirt. When we go from the North Georgia mountains through the Piedmont, where we are in the middle of the Georgia plateau, to the Georgia plain, we have three distinct soil types and growing climates. We are able to grow most every kind of tree, plant, root and tuber. It all has a place within our state boundaries. You can find it all right here. Having that diversity helps us.” Georgia’s vegetable portfolio is vast and deep, and includes cabbage, carrots, green onions, other sweet onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, field peas, butter beans and a host of leafy greens. Greens include collards, kale, beets, spinach, Swiss chard, turnip, dandelion, Napa and flat cabbage and specialty greens.