Peaches are Georgia’s signature crop, and the state is one of the nation’s leading producers of peanuts, pecans and blueberries. However, the 100 acres of citrus at Franklin’s Citrus Farm in ...

Thomas County, Ga. — Off a red dirt road near the town of Ochlocknee 30 miles north of the Florida border, the trees on Lindy Savelle’s farm are heavy with fruit on a cloudless, late October day. The ...

ATLANTA — Georgia is famous for its peaches, but oranges, limes and lemons are squeezing their way into the state in a big way. A decade ago, the state had 4,700 citrus trees. Today it has more than ...

STATESBORO, Ga. — In poetry, orange is the color of energy and vitality. And oranges often represent confidence, enthusiasm, joy. On the grove of Joe Franklin, it’s more rooted. "I know, when you eat ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some people learned to bake bread, others learned to roller skate, but Steven Cooler started growing citrus trees. Three years later, his plot is verdant and orderly; ...

Farmers have always dealt with the whims of Mother Nature. But now climate change is changing what they can grow and where they can grow it. The most unusual thing about Joe Franklin's 78-acre citrus ...

The juice topper in your mimosa is getting nearly as expensive as the bubbly beneath. Citrus greening and canker, hurricanes, a pandemic, increased costs for essentials like fertilizer and competing ...