Local gems worth getting to know.
Redland sits in the rolling clay country east of Tuskegee, Alabama—the kind of place where you take back roads because they're prettier, not because GPS sent you the wrong way. It's not a destination
Tuskegee Institute was founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington as a vocational and industrial training school for Black students in a region that had been enslaved plantation territory just sixteen
Redland sits in Macon County about fifteen minutes south of Tuskegee—close enough to reach the Institute's campus in twenty minutes, far enough that you're actually in farm country, not a college town
Redland sits in the northern part of Clay County, a region where the soil and climate favor tomatoes, squash, beans, and leafy greens through the growing season. The farmers who sell here aren't
Redland is a farming town first, a restaurant town second—which is exactly why the food here matters. You won't find trendiness or plating built for social media. What you get instead are places run
Redland sits in Clay County in the east-central part of the state. If you've driven through it, you likely missed it—a handful of houses, Redland Baptist Church (still active, founded 1892), and