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Many local farms provide their bounty to area restaurants for fresh farm-to-table delicacies, including fresh succulent seafood from the Gulf. Visitors can even head out to some of the local farms and see first-hand what they’ll be dining on later.

Just a short drive from Tallahassee is Thomasville, GA home to Sweet Grass Dairy, renowned throughout the country for their award-winning cheeses. They also offer tours of the farms, as well as cheese-making classes. It really is a fun, delicious time for the whole family.

For some of the finest country smoked sausage you’ll ever taste, make a trip to Bradley’s Country Store just outside of Tallahassee. Still family owned and operated, Bradley’s is a local tradition and has been recognized on the National Register of Historic Places since April 1984.

For a taste of Tallahassee, check out these popular local markets and growers!

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Bradley's Country Store

10655 Centerville Rd
Tallahassee, FL 32309

Phone: (850) 893-4742
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Famous for their country smoked and fresh sausage sold from the original 1927 store Bradley’s is a Tallahassee tradition. They also offer their own brand of ground corn and grits.

Fresh for Florida Kids Food Garden

600 South Calhoun Street
Holland Building
Tallahassee , FL 32399

Phone: (850) 617-7400
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A living educational exhibit by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Fresh for Florida Kids Food Garden teaches school children about the importance of fruits and vegetables to daily nutrition and insight into growing fresh produce. The garden is open year round and you can click here to see what’s growing, more pictures and videos from gardener, Nathan The Man in Overalls. The garden is located at the Holland Building, across the street from the Capitol.

Full Moon Apiary

Phone: (850) 997-3974
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An apiary is defined as “a collection of hives or colonies of bees kept for their honey” and these local beekeepers produce top-quality honey, including the prized Tupelo, and make various products with honey like fine soaps, lotions and creams. Their honey and hand-crafted products can be found at Tupelo’s Bakery in downtown Monticello.

Lake Ella Growers' Market

Phone: (850) 412-5260
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Year round, Wednesday afternoons 3:00 p.m. to 6 p.m. featuring a variety of heirloom gourmet veggies, flowers and herbs, cooking demonstrations from local executive chefs, healthy eating and sustainable living workshops.

Monticello Organic Vineyard & Winery

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Housed at Ladybird Organics, the farm produces USDA certified organic grapes, Meyer lemons, Marsh grapefruit, persimmons, pecans, and pears, as well as USDA organic wheatgrass and microgreens — sunflower, pea and buckwheat sprouts — eggs, worms, worm castings, and organic potting soil

New Leaf Market and Cafe

1235 Apalachee Pkwy.
Tallahassee, FL 32301

Phone: (850) 942-2557
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O'Tooles Herb Farm

305 NE Artemsia Trail
Madison, FL 32341

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O’Tooles Herb Farm is a cerified organic herb nursery and gardens. Wholesale and retail sales of herbal plants, fresh-cut herbs and greens and shiitake mushrooms. Tow gift shops onsite full of herbal products, regional art, gardening supplies and organic products. Thursday - Friday 9-6, Saturday 9-4. Closed July and August and January.

Saladino's Red Barn Farms

57 Valley Rise Road
Crawfordville, FL 32327

Phone: (850) 421-1627
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This family-run organic blueberry farm welcomes the public to pick blueberries from the hundreds of bushes surrounding their home. Generally opens June 1, call to confirm. Weekend 7 am until dusk a: weekdays 3 pm until dusk.

Saturday Market Downtown

Phone: (850) 224-3252
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Held every Saturday 9am - 2pm March through Mid-December and offering fresh produce, live music, live art demonstrations, fine arts crafts, food fun.

Sweet Grass Dairy

19635 US Highway 19 N
Thomasville, GA 31792

Phone: (229) 228-6704
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This 140-acre family owned and operated farm just north of Tallahassee produces and sells award-winning cheeses made from the milk of their very own goats and Jersey cows. Open for public tours first and third Saturdays of each month at 9:00 a.m.