Mountain Breeze Farm

Armuchee, Georgia

Mountain Breeze is a family-owned farm in the mountains of Northwest Georgia. Mountain Breeze Farm is about 150 feet above the nearby valley, on the flank of John's Mountain. It was cotton farmed in the early 1900's and then abandoned to forest succession. We cleared the mess to find beautiful terraces built by the cotton farmers on the high fields. We're working on soil fertility and conservation while experimenting with crop rotation and varieties. John's Mountain faces SE and heats up during the day, but gives up it's warmth slowly at night in the form of a wonderful mountain breeze that flows down the terraces. We have a microclimate with night temps averaging 7 degrees warmer than the valley (as long as the sun has been shining in the last few days!). Last frost and first frost are up to one month later/earlier than the valley below, giving us a nice extension to the season. Mountain Breeze started as Billy Morris’ garden, and before long he was growing more vegetables than he could eat! We now have about 1.5 acres in production, growing lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kohlrabi, swiss chard, beets, cantaloupe, watermelon, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, corn, squash, beans, salsify, parsnips, and onions. Feel free to check us out on the web at www.mountainbreezefarm.wordpress.com. Contact us to sign up for our weekly email list or for more information. You can contact us at mountainbreezefarm@gmail.com or by calling (706) 234-8044.

(This listing was last updated on October 08, 2011)

Location

Armuchee, GA
United States

Contact

• Billy Morris
• D: 706-766-2597
• Email

Applications for CNG Status

• Produce: accepted on Feb 08, 2010 | view application | inspection reports

  Inspection Reports

  • 09/24/11 (inspection2584.pdf - 306 KB)
  • 05/13/10 (inspection1539.pdf - 277 KB)

• grower declaration (PDF - 639 KB) - last one received on April 25, 2011