Farm
Allman Farms & Orchards
A five-generation family farm in Oneonta, Alabama, in the southern Appalachian foothills — growing fresh fruits and vegetables for sale on the operation. Three generations are actively working the farm now. The depth-of-time on the same land is the editorial filter: five generations of orchard and vegetable production is unusual in any region, and especially in the Deep South where small-farm economics have been particularly pressured.
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What they do
Allman Farms & Orchards has been “growing fresh fruits and vegetables for 5 generations” in Oneonta, Alabama, in Blount County north of Birmingham. The site notes “three current generations working to bring you the best quality produce possible” — meaning grandparents, parents, and children all working the operation simultaneously, which is rare even among multi-generational farms.
The operation is family-owned and family-operated; the public-facing line is “From our family to yours.” Specific fruit and vegetable varieties are not detailed on the homepage but are referenced through the site’s “Crops” section.
Why it’s listed
The Deep South lost most of its small-farm economy to consolidation, monoculture, and the long-term effects of the cotton-and-king-cotton legacy. A five-generation family fruit-and-vegetable operation in central Alabama is rare in two directions at once: rare in five-generation continuity and rare in the small-diversified pattern surviving where the agricultural pressure has been to consolidate or exit. [[directory|The directory]]‘s southern-Appalachians regional weight goes specifically toward operations like this.
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- Instance of: [[orchard]]
- Shares approach with: [[regenerative-agriculture]]
- Member of: [[farm]]
- Contained by: [[southern-appalachians]]
- Also grows: [[vegetable-farm]]
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node/13282247138 - Allman Farms & Orchards
A listing in the [[0mn1one|0mn1.one]] [[directory]]. Filed under [[southern-appalachians]] in [[directory|the directory]].
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