What’s In Season: Autumn Edition!

🍁 Get ready to embrace the harvest with an incredible abundance straight from Georgia farms! This season, local markets are overflowing with flavor-rich essentials perfect for nourishing your body as cooler days arrive. The lineup includes hearty root vegetables like carrots, radishes, turnips, beets, sunchokes, and sweet potatoes, plus warming winter squashes. You’ll find familiar favorites like tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant still thriving, alongside fresh greens such as lettuce, kale, collards, arugula, mustard greens, rainbow chard, and cabbage. Don’t forget aromatic herbs including Thai basil, holy basil, oregano, mint, rosemary, dill, fennel, turmeric, and ginger! And there’s plenty of fruit too - apples, pears, persimmons, and muscadines round out this spectacular haul. 🥕🍎 Meet the Autumn Superstars: Ready to try something new? Here are four seasonal stars that are not only delicious but also powerhouses for your body. Swipe to find recipes for each seasonal superstar! 🍠 Sweet Potatoes: Native to tropical South America and in the morning glory family, these nutrient-dense roots are high in vitamin A, fiber, and anti-inflammatory phytochemicals that support digestion and immune health. Rich in complex carbohydrates for sustained energy, and you can also eat the leaves raw or cooked like spinach! 🎃 Winter Squashes: From pumpkins to butternut, spaghetti, delicata, and candy roaster squash, these colorful treasures all belong to the Cucurbitaceae family. Packed with vitamins A and C, fiber, antioxidants, magnesium, and potassium, orange fall foods help maintain mucosal membranes in the respiratory tract, protecting you from seasonal illness as temperatures drop. 🍐 Pears: Members of the rose family alongside apples, strawberries, and plums, these fruits are rich in pectin - a soluble fiber that feeds beneficial gut bacteria. With a low glycemic index for blood sugar regulation plus vitamins C and potassium, poached pears combat autumn dryness, soothe inflammation, and ease digestion. 🌻 Sunchokes: Also known as Jerusalem artichokes, these knobby root vegetables relate to daisies and sunflowers in the Asterace