Mountain Sun Farm is a certified organic fruit and vegetable farm located on Lookout Mountain in Mentone, Alabama. It was established in 2017 after farming on leased land for 3 years.  We only sell our produce through our CSA and occasionally a self-serve stand at our farm gate.

As of winter 2023, we plant about 6 acres of crops per year. The farm has ideal sandy loam and loam soils, and is at the headwaters of Little River in one of Alabama's cleanest watersheds. Sitting atop Lookout Mountain, our crops enjoy a slightly cooler and breezier climate at 1650' elevation.  The farm's elevation, topography, and isolation protects it from potential pollution risks of industry or conventional agriculture.

Our farming methods prioritize ecological diversity and improving soil quality through intensive cover cropping, promoting beneficial insects, crop rotation, and only using naturally-occuring OMRI-approved pesticides that are not synthetic and can be used safely alongside all the non-pest life on the farm (birds, frogs, humans, insects, ect.).  We rely primarily on beneficial insects and birds to control pests - using botanical or microbial pesticides secondarily.  We rely primarily on organic matter from cover crops to combat disease - using microbial, botanical, or mineral fungicides secondarily. We do not use any herbicides, we instead use mechanical cultivation and cover cropping for weed control. We don't use plastic mulch on our farm.

We both graduated from Auburn University's College of Agriculture in pursuit of our long-held goal to work in organic agriculture.  Liz's background is in fruit and vegetable production - she worked and learned with two of the most successful and established organic farms in our area: Randle Farms and Jenny Jack Farm.  Brian's background is in environmental chemistry/microbiology - he's glad to now apply science with bare hands in the field outside of a laboratory.

The farmland and farm business (and all the farm loans) are owned by Liz and Brian.  2024 is our 10th season farming full-time as self-employed farmers with no off-farm jobs - and we're now raising a wee-wun on the farm, too.

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Find us on Wild Farm Alliance's Flyways Trail Map! (A network of farms supporting beneficial birds with nest boxes and habitat in exchange for their pest control services.)​