South Atlanta Farms
Values & Partners

A working farm building food access, real jobs, and shared ownership in South Atlanta. Asset by asset, season by season.

We're not extracting value from this neighborhood. We're circulating it, and building a place that belongs to the people who live here.
What We Hold

Circulate, don't extract.

We work to keep the produce, the dollars, the hiring, and the sourcing close to home. The people who benefit are the people eating the food, and also the people whose paychecks and purchases stay in the neighborhood.

Community first.

The farm is built to belong to the neighborhood. It is a working farm that lives like a neighbor. We're stewards of a neighborhood asset, and what circulates is more than dollars and hiring. It's nutrition, skills, and the kind of wealth that carries across generations. The goal is permanence: land that stays public, for good.

Feed and teach as one act.

The kids the farm feeds are the kids the farm teaches. The same beds that earn revenue from chefs have supplied the cafeteria. The production and the people go together. The farm has to live to feed the kids.

Nothing flourishes alone.

What's true in the bed is true in the neighborhood. Pollinators, partners, neighbors, students. The farm only works as a web. We build in coalition, on purpose.

The Land

Five acres, bed by bed.

In Coalition

We don't do this alone.

A community hub is only as strong as the people, schools, restaurants, and organizations that show up alongside it. The chefs who buy from the farm are more than customers. They're partners in keeping it alive.

Land and civic

Land Partner
Hosts the land the farm works. Its service contracts carried the farm's early seasons.
Civic
City of Atlanta & APS
The city's Sustainability Ambassadors graduated a cohort on the farm. City of Atlanta and APS Board representatives support the development of the farm and its goal of better community health.

Kitchens that buy from the farm

Chef Partner · Restaurant
Rahel Tafari and the GPCH team. One of SAF's first chef partners, and the kitchen that turned our zucchini into student-loved bread.
Chef Partner · Restaurant
A neighborhood restaurant a short drive from the farm, buying SAF produce by the pound for a farm-to-table menu.
Chef Partner · Restaurant
Atlanta restaurant that has bought SAF produce, part of the city's wider chef-led food culture.
Chef Partner · Restaurant
Adam J's Grilled Cheese
Neighborhood kitchen cooking with SAF produce.

Schools and training

School Partner
Field days and classroom-to-bed programming with ANCS students.
School Partner
Students out on the farm for pollinator days and hands-in-the-soil learning.
Education · Training
Trains educators on the farm. SAF was the Winter Workshop lab for pollinator lessons, nixtamalization, and harvest-data habits.
Education · Training
KSU students run Saturday workdays and help shape the Farm Manager Rubric, and paid youth roles have run through this partnership.
Education · Youth Jobs
Good Food Green City
Nonprofit partner behind paid youth roles on the farm. First jobs, in the soil.
Land & Stewardship
Youth-programming partner, building multi-season pathway programming between Oakland and the farm.

Food access

Food Access · Community
Close partner in the farm's food-access work and in the coalition supporting the farm on the south side.
Food Access
Food-access partner channeling donated SAF produce into Atlanta family pantries, part of the $22K+ reinvested in 2025.

Neighbors and peers

Peer Farm
Peer urban farm. Growers learning from growers across the city, and our partner in supporting the Villages at Carver.
Community Wellness
Wellness partner working alongside the farm as it grows into a neighborhood hub of health and well-being.
Community
Neighborhood collective in close support of the farm's work on the south side.
Community Development
Neighborhood-rooted community development partner in the south side's long work of building without displacing.
Small Business · Cohort
The accelerator cohort behind the farm's Pitch Perfect and Community Impact awards, and a network of fellow southside businesses.
The farm from above, beds and paths The field running out to the tree line Summer growth filling the beds Sunrise over the field, seen from the path

From above, and from the path

Add your strand.

This only works as a web. Whatever you bring (dollars, hands, a kitchen, a classroom), there's a place for it here.