On Friday, June 20, 2025, greater than 40 farmers, landowners, and meals group companions gathered in Uvalda, Georgia, for a South Georgia Conservation Farmer Discipline Day hosted by Georgia Organics and McIntosh SEED. Held on the diversified and provoking JM Coleman Farms, the day was wealthy with hands-on studying, useful resource connections, and peer-to-peer change.
Diversified Specialty Crop Manufacturing at JM Coleman Farms
The day started with a tour of JM Coleman Farms, led by Millie “Farmer Millz” Coleman. A self-described “experimenter at coronary heart,” Millz grows a powerful vary of crops together with lavender, rosemary, loofah, pomegranates, muscadines, ginger, turmeric, figs, lemons, and sugarcane. She is at the moment experimenting with Galia melons—a cross between cantaloupe and honeydew—and makes use of dried watermelon and melon to create Farmer Millz Milling Chips, a value-added product that generated buzz amongst attendees.
Whereas not licensed natural, Milliz follows largely natural practices and makes use of cowl crops like sunflowers to keep up soil well being. She additionally propagates her personal figs and lemons, exhibiting attendees how she has developed a low-input, diversified operation rooted in curiosity, statement, and native markets.
