Episode Notes

Through songs, images, stories, marketing campaigns, pie, and cobbler, peaches are inextricably linked with Georgia...but how did it get to be that way? We've asked historian Dr. Tom Okie of Kennesaw State University and author of The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South to tell us the story of how our state and the most delicious fruit around became a match made in heaven.