Georgia is three states stacked on top of one another. Red clay and hardwood up in the Piedmont, a line of old mill towns where the hills quit, and then flat sand and pine all the way down to the marsh. A farm outside Cumming and a farm outside Tifton are in the same state and almost nothing else, so we keep them apart.
The Piedmont is what’s open. It’s the country the ring around Atlanta covers, and that ring reaches a little past the Piedmont at its north end — Jaemor sits up Highway 365 at Alto, Riverview is over in Gordon County — which we say plainly on the ring page rather than pretend an hour’s drive stops on a neat line.
Every farm below is in Georgia. Rings are drawn by drive time, so where one crosses a state line the farm carries the state it’s actually in, not the state of the city it’s near.
And the standing rule, on every page of this thing: call or check their own page before you drive out.
Rolling red-clay country with the city sitting in the middle of it — peaches and strawberries in the spring, pumpkin fields and corn mazes by late September, and firs to cut once the weather turns.
One ring so far, drawn about an hour out from the city in every direction it makes sense to drive.
Nothing here yet. That’s the belt where the hills run out and the rivers drop — Columbus, Macon, Augusta — and when it opens it’ll open the way the Piedmont did: one ring at a time, and nothing goes in that we haven’t read in the farm’s own words.
Farm in that country? Send us your place and you’ll be in the first batch.
Also empty, and further off. Sand, pine and the Wiregrass down through Tifton and Valdosta, then the marsh and the islands past Brunswick — a different kind of farming from anything in this edition, and we won’t write it up until we’ve done the reading.
Know the country down there? Tell us who to call.
Every farm on this page is here because somebody read its own words and wrote them down. If that’s your farm and we got something wrong — or if you’re not on here at all — we want to hear from you. No fee, no ads, no catch.