Rabun County
Welcome Center
Post Office Box 750
232 Highway 441
Clayton, Georgia 30525-0019
(706)782-4812
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Agri-Tourism
Rabun County is no stranger to agriculture. Due to the area’s rugged terrain, agriculture was the only major industry in Rabun County until the 1880s, and today the county is host to a variety of organic growers and several agri-business destinations, including:
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- Chattooga Belle Farms is a 138 acre working farm in the shadow of the majestic Blue Ridge
Mountains.
The farm features a u-pick operation with apple and peach orchards, grapes and
muscadines, blackberries and blueberries. The farm also features a large Event Barn perfect for
weddings, special occasions or corporate retreats.
- Hillside Orchard Farms. With a country store and thriving mail order business, Hillside Orchard Farms is a local favorite for their pumpkin patch, corn maze, and wide variety of homemade delicacies.
- Osage Farms. A seasonal roadside market located on Hwy 441 in Rabun Gap. Osage Farms sells some of the freshest locally grown fruits, vegetables, and Christmas trees.
- Simply Homegrown: A Community Market. Offers exclusively locally grown produce (some of it organic) and flowers, and value-added items, including jams, preserves, honey, eggs, herbs, medicinal salves, stone-ground corn meal and flours, and baked goods, 9 a.m. to Noon on Saturdays in season, in front of Butler's II, 74 N. Main Street, in the heart of historic downtown Clayton. For more information, see www.simplyhomegrown.net.
- Northeast Georgia Locally Grown Internet Market. There's a new market in Rabun County, with all the information you need at http://norheastgeorgia.locallygrown.net/welcome It's grower-members make fresh, local, and sustainable foods and plants more accessible to customers, with all the ease of a couple of clicks on your computer. The farmers post their produce availability on Sunday. You order online on Monday, and receive delivery on Wednesday at Sott Creek Nursery, 290 South Main Street in Clayton. That way, you buy only what you wish to and the growers only harvest what's needed to fill your orders. All the products listed by Northeast Georgia Locally Grown are produced in Rabun, Habersham and adjacent counties. All its growers are committed to chemical-free farming and follow strict standards to ensure that all the vegetables, herbs, milled products, dairy, eggs, meats, flowers, and transplants found here are produced using sustainable producion practices.
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