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								| Matthew Raiford |  
								| CheFarmer 
								Matthew Raiford is currently the Executive Chef 
								of Little St. Simons Island a private resort 
								located off the coast of Georgia accessed only 
								by boat. He is also a farmer who has returned 
								home to Brunswick, Georgia to become a sixth 
								generation farmer on his families’ land that 
								they have owned since 1874. (read more) |  
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								| Althea Raiford |  
								| About 7 
								years ago my brother called me and told me he 
								wanted to become an Organic Farmer and wanted to 
								use the land we inherited from our 
								great-grandmother, Florine to make it happen. 
								  At the time I was active duty military and 
								knew that there wasn’t a lot I could do to make 
								this happen for him or us as a family.  (read 
								more) |  
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								| About the Founder, Jupiter Gilliard |  
								| The State 
								of Georgia required all male qualified voters to 
								swear an oath of allegiance to United States 
								government under the provision of the 1867 
								Reconstruction Act.  The State applied this 
								voting requirement to all adult-male Georgians 
								who had been citizens of the Confederacy, 
								Euro-descended and freedmen, alike.  The 
								post-Civil War migration of freedmen was rare 
								before of the chaotic and devastating conditions 
								of Georgia at the war’s end in 1865.  Therefore, 
								freedmen who swore allegiance in 1867 in Glynn 
								County were, in all probability, freed in Glynn 
								County.  (read more) |  
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