By Clint Thompson
Spring vegetable crops are in the ground. Fruits like peaches and blueberries are being harvested or about to be, as are Vidalia onions.
It’s a great time of year for Georgia’s specialty crop industry, explains Georgia Ag Commissioner Tyler Harper. He touted Georgia Grown during the UGA Grand Farm groundbreaking ceremony in Perry, Georgia.
“When you get into agriculture, this time of year is always great. All of the row crops are heading that way and we’re starting to get to a point where we’re starting to get close to peach season and blueberry season and all of those things that we enjoy here in the summer,” Harper said.
“It is definitely an exciting time. Vidalia onions are being harvested right now, and our Georgia producers and Georgia farm families are doing a phenomenal job growing Georgia grown products.
“You can go to georgiagrown.com to find whatever you’re looking for. I want to encourage those folks to visit those farms. For the first time ever, we put out U-pick map. It is an interactive map where you can go, see those farms on that map and learn more about them. That’s on our website at georgiagrown.com.”