Social Roots

Sarah V. Ross is the former executive director of the University of Georgia Center for Research and Education at Wormsloe in Savannah, Georgia, as well as president of the Wormsloe Foundation and executive director of the Wormsloe Institute for Environmental History, both foundations that conduct and coordinate agricultural and environmental research focused on Georgia’s coastal landscapes. After growing organic vegetables in the Coastal Plain for forty-five years, Ross now cultivates more than four hundred heirloom varieties of vegetables organically in experimental research plots in Savannah, Georgia, and in Alleghany County, North Carolina. Her focus is to classify flavor profiles, document growth rates, measure drought and flood tolerance, and identify pest and disease resistance of diverse varieties.