The most unusual thing about Joe Franklin's 78-acre citrus farm is that it really shouldn't be where it is."When I first started with it, people couldn't believe me when I told 'em it was grown right here in Georgia," they said."They didn't believe me; 'Oh, no, you can't grow that here!'"
In the middle of Georgia, Joe Franklin's 78-acre citrus farm is growing fruit you'd normally expect to find hundreds of miles south in Florida."No, afraid not," Franklin replied."One of the main things that drove my decision to plant 'em was the fact that it is so much warmer now than it was 30 years ago, 40 years ago. I know when I was growing up, golly, in October, you always had a couple of frosts. And November, you usually had a freeze.
“But now climate change is changing what they can grow and where they can grow it.” Same as it ever was. The Romans grew grapes right up to Hardian’s Wall.