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Sweet Grown Alabama’s 2023 Farmers Market Guide

Are you ready to support a variety of local farmers in one convenient location, all while enjoying the great outdoors? The wait is over because it’s officially farmers market season! ...
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Harvesting Joy

City girl to the Country. We stood in our new state at our new fence line in awe, staring across a farm the size of our previous city subdivision and wondered ...
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Something New on the Farm

My husband, Chad, and father-in-law, Larry, are long-time row crop and cattle farmers. I have had the pleasure of helping them farm for many years now.
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Make Alabama Gulf Seafood the High Point of Your Wedding Party

If you love seafood, serve it at your wedding events.
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The Farmers Market at Killen Park

One Sunday afternoon while reminiscing about the farmers market in Franklin Tennessee and how much fun it was to be in the group that started it, my husband dared me to ...
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The Berry Berry Best U-Pick Strawberry Farms

The wait is over! Sweet Grown Alabama u-pick strawberry farms are open and in full-swing. Visit any of these farms to enjoy gorgeous Alabama weather while supporting your local farmer!
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Flower Child Maysville

Flower Child Maysville is a small flower farm, run by mother-daughter team Gillian Kelley and LeAnn Richard, located in Maysville, Alabama.
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Sustainability and Why it Matters

In 1992, the Poarch Creek Indians set aside 2900 acres of agricultural land on our reservation to start a cattle farm.
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