Southern Exposure Family Farm

About Us

Since 2011, we have been learning to nurture crops in our unique micro-climates of our warm southern exposed hillsides & the cooler lowland fields. We grow for our family, friends, & extended network of co-ops, breweries, food banks, chefs, & are strengthening relationships with a multitude of locally made peppersauce, tea, and fermented product creators. We sell seedlings of proven heirlooms and rare varieties. For season extensions & warm loving plants, we utilize greenhouses and built numerous terraces into the hillside with the excavated nutrient-rich soils from our salmon restoration project. Unique varieties include a wide variety of heirloom and hard to find seasoning peppers, sweet peppers, hot peppers, lemongrass, oca, mashua, and Italian and Jerusalem artichokes. We firmly believe in a strong localized food system for all to benefit from! in 2020, we installed solar panels providing 100% of the energy used by the farm!

Growing & Operating Practices

We are stewards of the land and ecosystem. Since we purchased our farm in 2011, we have methodically improved it using regenerative organic farming practices that promote natural diversity of the living systems. We plant beneficial flowers to attract bees & wasps that help our farm thrive. All electricity used by the farm is produced by the solar panel arrays that we installed in 2020!