The people
behind the beds.

Mark Boswell

Mark did not set out to farm. He spent two decades working in schools and ended up responsible for five acres behind Luther J. Price Middle School. He formed South Atlanta Farms as its own entity in 2026 and took it through the Start:ME Southside accelerator, where it won the Community Impact Award.

He carries the vision and the partnerships, and he works the beds too, mostly in support of Andy. (He will tell you, unprompted, that this farm is years of work by many hands, and that most of those hands came before his.)

What he holds hardest is where the value goes, because he thinks it compounds. Food shapes how kids grow. Dollars that stay shape what families build. A farm that sits in one place for decades can be a keystone in the generational health and wealth of the neighborhood around it. So that's what we decided to build.

Read his letter: why this farm ›

Andy Friedberg

Andy brings more than a decade of high-volume organic vegetable growing to South Atlanta Farms. He fell in love with farming while apprenticing at Serenbe Farm during summers from Georgia State law school, then traded practicing law for the field, working at Waltham Fields and Hutchins Farm in Massachusetts before returning to Atlanta to start Andy's Farm.

In 2016 he co-founded Aluma Farm on the Atlanta BeltLine, a 3.8-acre urban farm that grew over 30,000 pounds of food a season, feeding a 90-household CSA, twice-weekly on-farm markets, and some of Atlanta's best restaurants. (He's also, by local legend, grown the tallest okra known to mankind.)

At South Atlanta Farms, Andy carries the production calendar: planting and harvest cadence, inventory forecasting, and the year-over-year growth of acreage in production, from a quarter-acre toward 1.5 acres by 2028.