My New Year's Resolution

**Warning:  Many links to good locally-grown food are included below!**  

I don't like having a New Year's Resolution - it makes me feel confined and obligated, and it's so much nicer not to be accountable for one more thing.

That being said, this year I have decided to try to do something to help support Georgia farmers, especially our own small organic farmers:  I will make a point to buy their products at the grocery store, even if I pay a few cents more.  Here is a small sampling of products that are grown in Georgia, many of them are organic:

Canola Oil - Solio   http://soliofamily.com/ (I buy mine at Whole Foods)

Cheese - Sweet Grass Dairy  http://sweetgrassdairy.com/

Cheese/Raw Milk - Nature's Harmony Farms  http://naturesharmonyfarm.com/

Beef and Eggs - The Pastures at Rose Creek  https://www.facebook.com/thepasturesofrosecreek

Beef, Chicken, Lamb, Pork - White Oak Pastures  http://whiteoakpastures.com/

Blueberries - Harriets Bluff Farm  http://www.harriettsblufffarm.com/

Olive Oil - Georgia Olive Farms, http://georgiaolivefarms.com/gof/retail-locations/

Gallberry Honey (my favorite) - Weeks Honey Farm http://www.weekshoneyfarm.com/

Chicken - Springer Mountain Farms http://www.springermountainfarms.com/

Pecans - Pebble Hill Grove http://growinggeorgia.com/features/2012/08/georgias-organic-peanut-production/ (Although admittedly I have never had to buy pecans in the store thanks to the abundant supply from my family's trees.)

Vidalia Onions - Antioch Farms http://www.antiochfarms.com/products.cfm?cat=6

The saddest thing I have learned from my research is that I cannot buy organic peanuts or peaches in Georgia:  http://growinggeorgia.com/features/2012/08/georgias-organic-peanut-production/ and http://www.pearsonfarm.com/about/the-farm.html.  These are two of our biggest crops, for crying out loud!  Hopefully our outstanding agricultural research institutes will turn this around soon.

Support a Georgia farmer in 2014!

Thanks to Nature's Harmony Farm in Elbert County for your photo.  Yum!