MOUNDVILLE, ALA. — When Randy and Debbie Brown sold Magnolia Restaurant in Greensboro several years ago, they began looking for another entrepreneurial opportunity.
The couple, who also own a hardware store in Moundville, found a new venture this year — a small farm that will grow organic vegetables year-round in tunnel hothouses.
But this is not a traditional truck farming operation.
The Browns’ farm — Havana Junction Farm LLC about 6 miles south of Moundville — is the first of what they and a coalition of business partners hope will be a massive network of small, independently owned farms across Alabama and Georgia that together will transform the impoverished Black Belt into the organic produce supplier for cities across the Southeast.
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