The Land

Full Plate Farm is located on 19 acres of land near the base of Bass Mountain (of the Cane Creek Mountain range) in Alamance County. The market garden is currently 1 acre of annual fruit and vegetable field crops.

• Three 14’ x 96’ fixed caterpillar tunnels in the field to provide more agile season extensions.

• An additional 35’ x 96’ fixed high tunnel provides more season extension, especially for various long-term summer trellising crops.

• Our 14’ x 36’ propagation house helps us to grow 95+% of our transplants on the farm throughout the year.

• 200’ of thornless blackberries were established in late Feb 2020.

• 500’ of rabbiteye blueberry bushes were established in September 2023 with our friends from Bountiful Backyard/Acre.

The market garden is designed to run on a human-scale with hand tools and minimal machine output, namely a BCS.

We aren’t legally able to say we are certified organic, but we follow organic practices.

The Farmer

I began gardening at my in-laws many years ago as a way to ground myself in the midst of graduate studies. After school, I apprenticed for close to a year at a nearby local organic farm before going into social work practice in community-based non-profits. Each season, after work and on the weekends and days off, the garden expanded with ambition (and obsession) until my spouse and I purchased land only a few miles from her in-laws and that original garden. After a couple years of building infrastructure on the property, and two young children later, while working a full-time job with childcare costs and out-of-control student loan debt, Full Plate Farm came to fruition.