Farm Tours
(This listing is not really a grower, but it is enabling our Farm Tour volunteer, Marc Tissenbaum, use of our website to take reservations and add information about our 2010 monthly farm tours and work days.)
Please join us as Athens Locally Grown hosts five monthly Farmer for a Day tours. Each month, participants will visit a different sustainable farm to gain insight into some of the low-impact agricultural methods used in our community. They will also be able to match faces and names with farms that provide fresh, chemical-free goods to Athens area markets, restaurants, and individuals.
In addition, the farmers will receive some much-deserved recognition while getting a little help and potentially picking up a few new customers.
All in all, it will help individuals create an even stronger sense of community in Athens, GA.
One Saturday or Sunday a month from May through October, we will meet at our host farm at 10am. From 10 to noon, participants will get to see first-hand what goes into producing their food by helping with small, fun and interesting projects the grower will have prepared. We’ll then have lunch (free for all volunteers) followed by a full tour of the farm. The tours generally wrap-up by 2 p.m.
Our food sponsors this year are Daily Groceries Co-op, Athens Locally Grown, and participating farmers.
Each tour is limited to 25 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. You can sign up here at the Locally Grown site while you’re shopping, or if you have additional questions you can contact Marc Tissenbaum by emailing farmerforaday@gmail.com
Directions will be provided and a carpool will be organized for each tour.
The list of farms and dates for 2010 are as follows:
MAY 15, Saturday
Darby Farms (Walton County)
2795 Nunnally Shoals Rd
Good Hope, GA 30641
Daniel Dover
Certified Naturally Grown. Darby Farms is a family owned pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm and informational outreach in Walton County. We produce: pastured poultry (eggs, chicken, turkeys, ducks and guinea fowl) and will soon be offering pastured pork. We are in the redemption business: healing the land, healing the food, healing the economy, and healing the culture. Experience the satisfaction of knowing your food and your farmer and building community. We are your clean meat connection.
This farm is approximately 27 miles from Athens and it’ll take about 40 minutes to get there.
JUNE 13, Sunday
Sundance Farm (Madison County)
566 Coley Davis Rd.
Danielsville, GA 30633
Ed and Kim Janosik
Certified Naturally Grown. Sundance Farm grows healthy organic produce not only for our family but for people that care about what they eat. Locally grown produce is fresher, more nutritious and by far more flavorful.
This farm is approximately 13 miles from Athens, and it’ll take 20 minutes to get there.
JULY 11, Sunday
Veribest Farm (Oglethorpe County)
1192 Veribest Rd.
Carlton, GA 30627
Todd Lister and Dale Wechsler
Certified Naturally Grown. We are pleased and grateful to find ourselves with enough of a patch of soil to participate in Athens Locally Grown and believe in the philosophy of thinking globally and eating locally. We believe in and strive for a sustainable lifestyle that includes growing fine vegetables produced without chemicals while conserving resources.
This farm is approximately 33 miles from Athens, and it’ll take 50 minutes to get there.
AUGUST 7, Saturday
Flatwoods Farm (Elbert County)
2539 Col. Dixon Rd.
Elberton, GA 30635
Tim Heil
USDA Certified Organic. We are located in the Flatwoods area of south Elbert County. One of the goals of local sustainable agriculture is to grow crops befitting the culture, the land and the nature of a given area. We specialize in growing organic fruits and vegetables that are best suited for the consumers, retail outlets, markets and restaurants of northeast Georgia and the surrounding area. We concentrate when possible on producing heirloom varieties and raise all our crops in the ground, no hydroponics or container produce.
This farm is approximately 44.5 miles from Athens, and it’ll take an hour and 15 minutes to get there.
SEPTEMBER 4, Saturday
Burnell Farm (Hart County)
862 Joe Findley Rd.
Royston, GA 30662
Tammy and William Burnell
Certified Naturally Grown. We are a produce farm in Royston (Hart County) Ga. One of are goals is to supply our local community with vegetables grown with no herbicides, chemicals are pesticides. We also raise chickens (Cornish X Rocks) and Rainbow Layers using the same standards as we do with our vegetables. We like to say our birds are DRUG free. We currently farm 9 acres and we have a greenhouse and use raised beds. We also have a 91/2 acre pond.
This farm is approximately 33 miles from Athens, and it’ll take 40 minutes to get there.
OCTOBER 23, Saturday
Boann’s Banks (Franklin County)
310 Woody Rd
Royston, GA 30662
Eric and Chris Wagoner
Certified Naturally Grown. We’ll be concluding the series with a ’Hunter’s Moon Feast’ celebration for Athens Locally Grown members at Boann’s Banks, the farm of ALG manager Eric Wagoner.
This farm is approximately 25.5 miles from Athens, and it’ll take 30 minutes to get there.
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Marc Tissenbaum
farmerforaday@gmail.com