Fresh grown news [June 17, 2016]

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The 2016 Georgia Grown Showcase
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Georgia Grown invites you to buy fresh from the farmer at the 4th annual Georgia Grown Showcase in Pooler, GA (just outside of Savannah). This year Georgia Grown has partnered with Tanger Outlets and Georgia Grown member The Salt Table to bring you the largest Georgia Grown Showcase to date with over 60 Georgia Grown members present! It's free fun for the whole family with games for kids, delicious samples and a wide range of locally grown items like fruits and vegetables, meats, olive oils, honey, plants as well as unique Georgia Grown products such as soaps and candles. We hope to see you there! Click here for more information.

Teaching Georgia Grown: Culinary

Students get Creative with

Homegrown Foods

Lara Lyn Carter hosts recipe contest at Albany Tech!

and less like everywhere else.

There's a new chain restaurant opening up in Albany that has everyone excited. Everyone, that is, except for Chef Todd White, chair of Albany Technical College's Culinary Arts program, who believes success tastes more like Georgia

To make that point to his students, White is introducing them to the bounty of Georgia with the help of Georgia Grown member and TV chef Lara Lyn Carter. Carter, who produces her own line of culinary sauces under the Wicker & Whisk name, hosted a recipe contest for White's students that challenged them to develop delicious new dishes using Carter's sauces and foods grown and produced locally. Continue reading...

[www.georgiagrown.com/events/eventdetail/3118]June 18, 2016: Georgia Grown at the James Beard House June 25, 2016: Georgia Grown Showcase
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Farm Credit Associations of Georgia Offers Free Ag Finance Training
Take advantage of this free AgAware training opportunity!

Thanks to the Farm Credit Associations of Georgia, Georgia farmers have four opportunities to attend a free financial training workshop this year. The purpose of the nationally award-winning AGAware program is to promote and educate the next generation of farmers. This will be the fourth year the program has been available in Georgia. The free training is scheduled from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the locations listed above and a free lunch is provided. Sign up today!
Georgia Grown Member Spotlight
Congratulations to Lara Lyn Carter!
As last weekend's Southeast Emmy Awards presentation at the Grand Hyatt Buckhead wore on and the presenters got ever-closer to announcing the award for Best On-Camera Talent, a twinge of nervousness began to grow inside local culinary artist Lara Lyn Carter, who's show "Thyme for Sharing with Lara Lyn Carter" was up for four awards that night. "I was as nervous as I could be, but I don't really think it hits you until it comes down to the last few seconds before they make that announcement," Carter said during an interview Monday with her newly-claimed Emmy sitting prominently on a bookcase. "I was following along with the program, and I remember looking over at (husband) Chris (Carter) and going, `There's three more until my category.'" Carter said the rush of nerves caused her to put down her fork and abandon her complementary meal as she tried to calm herself, but that didn't really help her focus. All she could think about were the legions of well-wishers who had sent her off to Atlanta with positive thoughts. Continue reading...
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