Taste, Traditions, and the Honest Pleasures of Food
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Welcome to the Slow Food Tallahassee online directory!
In the area of North Florida and South Georgia there are a lot of opportunities to support locally grown, sustainable agriculture. As we work to make this listing as complete as possible we hope that you will contact these producers and see what options are available to you. Many, many of these producers will happily ship or arrange for drop locations for their products. They may also be available at one of the local markets.
In keeping with our Slow Food Principles we encourage you to slow down and enjoy the pleasures of the foods you buy and consume. And we encourage you to understand the connection between the farm and the community. We do our best to maintain the accuracy of these listings but things do change; please contact us directly with additions, questions or concerns about those listed on this site.
Always Updated: Printable Directory in Adobe Acrobat.
Stores * Organic and Natural Wineries * Organic and Natural Farms * Organic and Natural Fruit * Organic and Natural Dairy * Organic and Natural Nuts and Grains * Organic and Natural Flowers * Organic and Natural Eggs * Organic and Natural Herb Farms * Organic and Natural Honey * Organic and Natural Meat and Animals * Community Supported Agriculture * Growers Markets * Farmers Markets * Individual Treasures * Supporting and Green Businesses * Restaurants * Other Noteworthy Resources
STORES
These stores sell natural and organic items or produce and sell local items. We are not suggesting they are Slow Food in all ways just that they’re doing something right and we like ‘em!
New Leaf Market
1235 Apalachee Parkway, Tallahassee, FL 32301, T: 850-942-2557
The Health Food Store
1989 Capital Circle NE, Tallahassee, FL 32308, T: 850-671-1452
Bradley's Country Store
10655 Centerville Road, Tallahassee, FL 32309, T: 850-893-1647
Honeytree Natural Foods
1415 Timberlane Road, Tallahassee, FL 32303, T: 850-942-7000
Fresh Market
1390 Village Square Boulevard, Tallahassee, FL 32312, T: 850-907-1392
Sweet Basil's Health Foods & Wellness Center
2551 East Pinetree Boulevard, Thomasville, GA 31792, T: 229-228-0730
Tomato Land & Sea Market
1847 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32303, (850) 222-0813
The Homebrew Den
1350 E. Tennessee St #B-3, Tallahassee, FL 32308, (850) 219-1310, (800) 923-BREW
Store Hours: Tues. - Fri. 11am-7pm, Sat. 10am-4pm.
ORGANIC & NATURAL WINERIES
Monticello Vineyards & Winery - Ladybird Organics
1211 Waukeenah Highway, Monticello, FL 32344, T: 850-997-7224 farm or 850-294-9463 winery. (Muscadine wines, our specialty, and fresh grapes in season as well as grape plants from our nursery. We also offer seasonal fruits including persimmons, pecans, pears, satsumas, Meyer lemons, and Marsh grapefruit; microgreens grown to order including wheatgrass, pea shoots, sunflower and buckwheat sprouts; farm fresh eggs and a limited number of broilers; and magnificent worm castings and worms for those who garden or want to start their own vermicompost.)
ORGANIC & NATURAL FARMS
These could fall under other categories and some of the other farms have more than one item as well. No perfect matches. In general these are full service farms.
3546 Baum Road, Tallahassee, FL 32309, T: 850-216-4024, (organic produce, mushrooms, plants)
Blue Ridge Farm Hydroponics
804 Frank Smith Road, Quincy, FL 32351, T: 850-875-9572
Full Circle Farm
20997 174th Street, Live Oak, FL 32060, thisisdennis@ juno.com, T: 386-776-2770
(beef, dairy, goat meat, cheese, pork, eggs)
Crescent Moon Organic Farm
145 Crescent Moon Trail, Sopchoppy, FL 32358, T: 850-559-2000
Heirloom Country Farms
6014 S.W. 137 Avenue,
Archer, FL 32618, T:
352-337-2541. Open M-F 8-5 and Sat 9-1
Free range, natural grain and grass fed, fresh home grown eggs, chickens and geese;
heirloom varieties of vegetables, flowers and herbs.
Beares Blueberry Farm
7858 Havana Highway, Havana, FL 32333, T: 850-539-9955 , nikkibeare @aol.com,
(organic blueberries)
Havinam Persimmon Orchard
6723 West Capps, Monticello, FL 32344, T: 850-342-1002 (call before 10 pm eastern time), havinam@ yahoo.com, (natural persimmons)
Wendell and Gayle Glawson
Saturday and Sundays only, 7 am–8pm. Directions: Highway 90 1 mile E. of Chattahoochee, or about 10 miles W. of Gretna, turn South (which is left if you're heading West) on McKeown Road, go to end of road, 2-story white house. (u-pick scuppernongs, muscadines -natural, seasonal)
Southern Grace Farms
Route 1 Box 28A, Enigma, GA 31749, T: 229-533-8585, (u-pick strawberries, blackberries, country store)
Aspalaga Blueberries
603 Aspalaga Road, Monticello, FL 32344, aspalaga@ peoplepc.com, T: 850-997-4929, (organically grown blueberries, u-pick and fresh market)
Little River Organics
16857 County Road 49, Wellborn, FL 32094, T: 386-963-3822, (satsumas, mandarins, chestnuts)
ORGANIC & NATURAL DAIRY
Kurtz and Sons Dairy, LLC
11805 193rd Road,
Live Oak, FL 32060, T:
386-776-1038.
(The same local farm that supplies grass-fed beef steaks to New Leaf Market also supplies pasteurized milk and raw milk! Check to confirm: tours of this working dairy farm are scheduled on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays between 10:30am and 12:30pm.)
Sweet Grass Dairy
19635 US Highway 19 North, Thomasville, GA 31792, T: 229-227-0752, (assorted hard and soft cheese)
ORGANIC & NATURAL NUTS AND GRAINS
Deep South Nut Co. - FM Guess Pecan
201 South Lee Street, Valdosta, GA 31601, T: 229-224-1421, (natural pecans, peanuts)
Ed and Joan Hart
1164 Beaty Road, Pavo, Georgia 31778, T: 229-859-2278 (please use respectful times when calling)., (heirloom, organic cornmeal and grits)
ORGANIC & NATURAL FLOWERS
Cut Flower Farm
1439 Rich Bay Road, Havana, FL 32333, cutflowerfarm @hotmail.com
T: 850-509-2773 or 850-544-4065, (naturally grown assorted flowers, florist services, delivery)
Salter Tree & Herb Farm
Specializing in local wildflowers, seeds and more.
T: 850-574-8367
ORGANIC & NATURAL EGGS
Walrus Egg Company
250 Windwalker Street, Chipley, FL 32428, T: 850-638-7392, (natural eggs when production permits and corncob back scratchers)
ORGANIC & NATURAL HERB FARMS
305 Artemesia Trail, Madison, FL 32341, T: 850-973-3629, (herbs, nursery plants, shiitake mushrooms, related gift items)
Herbal Creations: Creating a Garden for the Senses
39 San Marco Avenue,
St. Augustine, FL 32084,
T: 904-824-6635,
2hollie@bellsouth.net
ORGANIC & NATURAL HONEY
Broken Arrow Honey Farm
19747 US Highway 19 North, Thomasville GA 31792, T: 229-228-4331
L. L. Lanier & Son
PO Box 706, Wewahitchka, FL 32465, T: 850-639-2371, lltupelo@ digitalexp.com, (tupelo honey)
ORGANIC & NATURAL MEAT AND ANIMALS
Battle Axe Ranch
Shonya Spier, T: 386-364-5760, (arucana chickens, turkeys, highland cattle, curly horses, gamel chickens)
Thompson Farms Smokehouse
2538 Dixie Road, Dixie, GA 31629, T: 229-263-9074 or 866-463-9218, (all-natural pork)
Golden Acres Ranch
704 Barnes Road, Monticello, FL 32344, T: 850-997-6599, (non-medicated pasture raised goats and sheep for meat; eggs, chicken compost; u-pick mayhaws in season)
Home Park Farm
167 Home Park Farm Road, Thomasville, GA 31757, T: 229-228-6548, (antibiotic-free, grass-fed beef)
White Oak Pastures
22422 Highway 27 South, Bluffton, GA 39824, T: 229-641-2081, (pasture raised, natural ground beef)
KBH Farms, LLC
9039 US Hwy 19 South, Thomasville, GA 31792, T: 229-226-1357, kbh @mchsi.com, (premium grass-fed ground beef)
Star Hill Farm
Hugh Popenoe, Williston, FL, 352.392.2643. E-mail: HLP @UFL.EDU (water buffalo meat)
COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE (CSA)
You join by paying a fee to the farm that then produces and delivers to you a share of the produce harvested that week. Usually eggs and meats are available too for an additional cost. Memberships are limited.
ASIF Gardens
PO Box 16338, Tallahassee, Florida 32317-6338, T: 850-627-1715.
Native Naturals Farm
7500 South Jefferson Street, Lamont, Florida 32336, nativenaturals@ joimail.com, T: 850-997-1001, This CSA is currently not available. Feel free to contact them on their future plans or encourage them by letting them know you miss them!
Zebra Truck Farm
PO Box 915, Monticello, FL 32345, zebratruckfarm@yahoo.com, T: 850-997-2573
Harvest from the Heart
Bob & Pam Portwood.
Located in Wakulla County this community supported agriculture group is seeking to organize a CSA Co-Op for our area to aid organic/natural growers.
850-926-2415
seminole21@earthlink.net
Magnolia Farms Organic CSA Farm
386-364-6450, mcelwee87 @alltel.net.
Located in Live Oak. We have a driver for drop off points and are ready to reserve spring shares now.
GROWERS MARKETS
A true growers market means that everything sold is grown by the person selling it at the market. It’s a great way to meet the local farmers.
Apalachicola Growers' Market
Grand opening June 08, 2007. Hours: 2:00pm – dusk, every Friday afternoon. Location: Downtown Apalachicola/56 Market street at the corner of Market St. and Avenue D, in the parking lot of the Natural Medicine Shop. Directions: Take Hwy 98 to Apalachicola (Hwy 98 turns into Market Street ) to intersection of Avenue D. Contact: FAMU StateWide Small Farm Programs, Jennifer.Taylor@famu.edu, 850.412.5260.
Lake Ella Grower’s Market
229 Lake Ella Drive, Tallahassee, FL, Behind Black Dog Café, Year round, Wednesday, 3 p.m. – dusk. T: 850-412-5260
Grower's Market at Southwood
Located between buildings 4025 and 4055 in the green space. Open each Monday from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Local farmers selling local, seasonal produce. For questions call 412-5260 or 245-4330.
FARMERS MARKETS
Slow Food Tallahassee wishes to express some concern over the following markets. There are many who are participating by buying from traditional, conventional, industrial farms and selling them in the “market” setting. We applaud the occasional farmer who attends these markets and the occasional times when these markets purchase from locals. ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU BUY.
Monticello Farmer’s Market
Corner of Railroad and Washington Streets, Monticello, FL 32344, Year round, Monday - Friday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. T:850-997-5965
Thomasville State Farmer’s Market
502 Smith Avenue, Thomasville, GA 31792, Year round, 8 a.m.-6.p.m, closed Sundays, T: 229-225-4072
Tallahassee Farmer’s Market
1415 Timberlane Road at Market Square Shopping Center Pavilion, Tallahassee, FL 32303, Year round, Saturday, 8 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Wellsprings Farmer’s Market
Old Quincy Feedmill, 321 S Jackson Street, Gretna, FL 32332, Opens in April, Tuesday - Saturday, 10 a.m.– 6 p.m. T: 850-856-5025 (unconfirmed number)
Tallahassee Downtown Farmer’s and Produce Market
Ponce de Leon Park Monroe Street at Park Avenue, Tallahassee, FL 32312, March – November, Saturday, 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. T: 850-224-3252
Ali’s Market
3031 Crump Road, Tallahassee, FL 32309, T: 850-878-2319, (has organic items, purchases from small local farms, occasional fresh seafood)
INDIVIDUAL TREASURES
These are “Mom & Pop” types of operations who are in line with Slow Food principals.
Jo's Jams and Pickles. Jams--local, low-sugar, some organic. Probiotic Live Pickles--Dills, Kimchee and Sauerkraut. Joanne Chamberlain 850.878.8698.
SLOW FOOD SUPPORTING BUSINESSES & GREEN BUSINESSES
Locally Owned Tallahassee. Brought to you by the Independent Business and Community Alliance. Shop local!
TallyMarket.com. Indexed directory of more than 1600 local websites, free classified ads, community calendar and more. Email them via their contact page if you need help starting your own website or need just a webpage to let people know where you are and what you do.
Natural Matters. Committed to building and maintaining healthy yards by applying organic amendments, avoiding harsh chemicals, and using proper management practices, while striving to provide these services at competitive prices. Tallahassee. 850.671.7270.
Organic One Pest Control. Diatomaceous earth from a Panhandle-based company that kills fire ants, roaches, fleas and more on contact. Betty Quick 850.510.3601 or at Tallahassee Nurseries.
Mama and Baby Love
1122 Thomasville Road, Tallahassee, FL 32304, info@mamaandbabylove.com, T: 850-350-0609
Magnolia Hill Soap Company
3965 Gadsden Road,
Jacksonville, Fl 32207,
T: 904-399-3241
N. Elizabeth Markovich, ARNP
1913 Buford Blvd.,
Tallahassee, Fl 32308,
T: 850-878-4434
Planet Gumbo
678 McDonnell Drive,
Tallahassee, Fl 32310,
T: 850-425-2805
RESTAURANTS
We list these because we know of farms that sell to them or we know the chef and feel he/she supports the Slow Food principals. They are not 100% natural or organic and we encourage you to ask your server if there are dishes made from locally purchased items. We also encourage your feedback in this area of the directory. ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS, TALK TO THE CHEF.
220 W. Washington Street, Monticello, FL, 850-997-2127. Brought to you by Slow Food Tallahassee's very own Claire Olson.
Sage
3534 Maclay Boulevard, Tallahassee, FL 32312, 850-877-0343
Kool Beanz Café
921 Thomasville Road, Tallahassee, FL, 850-224-2466. Chef Keith Baxter is a real Slow Foodie at heart. He is very supportive of local efforts toward sustainable and local foods.
Taste Budz
2655-L Capital Circle N.E., Tallahassee, FL 32308, 850-309-7348
Mozaik
1410-D Market Street, The Pavilions, Tallahassee, FL 32312, 850-893-7668
The Main Ingredient
1710 West Tharpe Street, Tallahassee, FL 32303, 850-383-8333
306 North Restaurant
306 N. Patterson Street, Valdosta, GA 31601, 229-249-5333
OTHER NOTEWORTHY RESOURCES
Located on Wadmalaw Island, SC, this is the only tea plantation in North America.