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Rooted in Resilience: Sustaining Land for Four Generations

Taleen Hanna, Murphy Center
December 6, 2024
Peaches ready for packing and shipping at Lane Packing, a peach farm in Fort Valley, Ga.

Georgia’s peaches knocked out by a 1-2 punch of climate trends and bad weather

Grant Blankenship, GPB News
May 25, 2023
Dozens of neighbors packed into the April 24 Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission meeting to oppose a new subdivision on Walden Road.

330 people oppose rezoning farmland for 164 new homes on Walden Road

A standing-room-only crowd packed the Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission hearing trying to preserve nearly 97 acres as agricultural, not residential
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
April 26, 2023
Yellow Rock Farm owner, Paul Cardwell visits his female alpacas and llamas on his farm on December 5, 2022 in Macon, Ga.

Governor signs bipartisan legislation to conserve Georgia farmland

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder
April 23, 2023
Sean O'Neill, second from right, presents the Bright Farms hydroponic greenhouse proposal to Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning on Monday.

Hydroponic greenhouses to bring 300 jobs, put Macon out front of ‘really big’ trend

Macon-Bibb Planning & Zoning Commission approves Bright Farms campus near airport, new north Macon apartment complex, façade improvements for Grant’s Lounge
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
September 27, 2022
The Macon-Bibb County Animal Shelter is now under the control of the Bibb County Sheriff's Office.

Euthanization ‘not my intention,’ Bibb sheriff says as animal shelter cleared to open

Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
February 14, 2020
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