Availability for August 23

The recent heat has taken its toll on our availability, but there’s still a respectable amount of products this week. There’s even a few new items, including heirloom watermelons, more squash, and a test run of three types of bread by a new Athens bakery.

We’ve added several new growers this past week, though some of them haven’t gotten their listings in as I write this. One that has is Red Barn Farm, located near the Athens airport. You can find more information and photos on the “Our Growers” page. In the near furture you should see more local meats available, including pastured beef, emu, ostrich, and lamb, as well as sustainably caught wild Georgia shrimp. Many of you have been asking for more local meats, and despite the extra hurdles put up by the state of Georgia, several local producers have done what they need to to be able to offer it to you. Eggs are another area we’ve been working on, but it’s been hard to find an established local source with eggs not already spoken for. As you’ve seen here (and is true everywhere in the country), real eggs are a hot commodity. All of the growers here have added more hens to their flocks, but it takes six to nine months for hens to start producing the natural way. We’ll see the first eggs from those young hens this fall.

We all thank you for your continued support of Locally Grown. We’ve seen amazing growth this year, and we’ll do everything we can to sustain that production throughout the year. We’ll see you at Gosford Wine on Thursday from 4:30 to 8pm!