Jack Spruill Introduces Georgia Grown

23 January 2012

Marketing Director Jack Spruill of the Georgia Department of Agriculture talks about the newly developed Georgia Grown Program.

Transcript

I'm Jack Spruill, with the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and I'm Director of the Marketing Division. What I'd like to share with you is that we have recently launched a new Georgia Grown logo. This is only the start of the new Georgia Grown program. The logo, by itself, would simply be what we hope is an attractive piece of artwork. We're extremely proud of it and the people who voted on it throughout the state, and we think it's going to be quite accepted by all of the producers in the state.

But as a part of a program, we're in the very near future going to launch a new Georgia Grown website. Be watching for the announcement of that website. We will make it available to you at the Department of Agriculture.

Hopefully, with Georgia Grown also helping us get it out to public eye, so you will be able to go on this website, find out more about the new Georgia Grown program, the tiers, the levels, and the things we're hoping it brings to all of the ag producers in this state.

As part of this launch, and part of this new program that we're going to develop, we hope to have a website which will have a very much interactive database. So, if you're a person in the restaurant business, you can go there and find out where to source your Georgia Grown products, fruits and vegetables that you're wanting to buy.

As a grocery operator, you can literally go here and find out what the best source for these products, season of the year and time that you need them, and go back directly to the Georgia producer who has grown them for you.

For more information, see www.georgiagrown.com.

 

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