South Atlanta Farms
The Team

The people
behind the beds.

A small team carrying a big idea — a founder building a neighborhood institution, and one of Atlanta's most experienced urban farmers running the ground.

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Founder & Executive Director

Mark Boswell

Mark founded South Atlanta Farms not to build a farm for himself, but to build the kind of place he always wanted to see in his own city — a community hub of health, wellness, and well-being, and a third space where neighbors can show up and be in community with each other.

Atlanta-rooted, he leads the farm's vision, partnerships, and fundraising — holding the through-line that food is infrastructure for place-love and community autonomy, not a one-season program. Under his direction the farm formed as an LLC in 2026, won Pitch Perfect and Community Impact at Start:ME Southside, and set its course toward permanent public farmland.

His conviction is plain, and it shapes every decision: the farm should not be his — it should be the community's.

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Farm Operations Lead

Andy Friedberg

Formerly Aluma Farm · 30,000+ lbs / season on the Atlanta BeltLine

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.

The team grows with the farm. Our first cohort of paid youth fellows joins in summer 2026 — the next generation of growers learning the work hands-in-the-soil.

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We're building a team, a cohort, and a coalition. Whether you bring hands, dollars, or a kitchen — there's a place for you here.

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