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 * Georgia Peaches**

It has been said that Georgia peaches are the best. Well thats just an opinoin. What if they were the most nutritious, or made the best? Georgia Locally Grown states, "Our climate allows us to produce high quality fruits and vegetables ranging from strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and... don’t forget Georgia Peaches..." Georgia peaches are the juciest around. Even though peaches originated in Florida, Georgia took over the title of best peaches. This came when Franciscan monks brought them to Georgia. A local planter named Raphael Moses was the first to successfully ship peaches by using champagne crates. Every year Georgia does a pledge to buy locally.

Georgia's peach industry has a long tradition. The first peaches were planted in the state in the eighteenth century, and the first commercial production occurred in the mid-nineteenth century. In 2003 Georgia ranked third nationally in acreage devoted to peaches (with more than 6,070 hectares, or 15,000 acres) and in production (behind California and South Carolina). Franciscan monks introduced peaches to [|St. Simons] and [|Cumberland] islands along Georgia's [|coast] in 1571. By the mid-1700s peaches and plums were cultivated by the [|Cherokee Indians]. Before the [|Civil War] (1861-65) increasing = = 1. Georgia Locally Grown. Web. 05 Nov. 2010. []. 2. //Georgia Locally Grown//. Georgia Agritourism. Web. 05 Nov. 2010. []
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