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Make the most of Georgia Peach season with these 11 treats

Atlanta Magazine Make the most of Georgia Peach season with these 11 treats Doughnuts, salads, cocktails, ice cream, and more Photograph courtesy of South City Kitchen Peach season is back, and reader, it’s good. “This has been an incredible year for peaches. They’re not always as good as they are this year,” says Rachel Wright, pastry chef of Leon’s Full Service in Decatur. To Wright, this means that the peaches have been highly acidic and very sweet. “They have that velvety, slick, mango-ish texture. Not like a mealy, hard, city peach texture,” she says. “Just high-acidity, high-sugar, and real juicy falls down your face while you’re eating it.”

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Genuine Georgia Group expects best year yet

By April 27, 2021 Genuine Georgia Group is well prepared to meet customers’ needs when it comes to peaches because of its relationships with all five of Georgia’s commercial peach farms Pearson Farm and Lane Southern Orchards in Fort Valley, Taylor Orchards in Reynolds, Dickey Farms in Musella and Fitzgerald Fruit Farms in Woodbury. Genuine Georgia’s focused efforts also center around pecans and Southern satsumas, and the company sees big growth on the horizon for all three of these segments. “All three of those items are super special and chocked full of flavor,” said Duke Lane, one of the partners in the Fort Valley, GA-based company. “That is what keeps our excitement each year. On top of those amazing commodities, the growers we work with do a phenomenal job on the growing side.”

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UGA alum creates scholarship in honor of mentor/friend

FORT VALLEY â As a peach and pecan producer in central Georgia, Al Pearson relied on the expert advice provided by University of Georgia Cooperative Extension. In addition to the valuable counsel provided by extension peach expert Maurice E. âButchâ Ferree, Pearson gained something unexpected: a lifelong friend. A member of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Alumni Board, Pearson has established the Dr. Maurice E. âButchâ Ferree Scholarship to support students majoring in horticulture in honor of Ferree, who retired in 1998 after 24 years with UGA Extension. The scholarship, which will be awarded for the first time in fall 2021, will provide scholarship awards for Georgia residents who are rising juniors or seniors majoring in horticulture at CAES. Recipients will be selected by a committee appointed by the collegeâs dean, and preference will be given to students who currently are or have previously been engaged in rural activit

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