Fourteen acres of Johns Island soil, a decade of heirloom growing, every Clemson Extension bulletin ever written for the Lowcountry, and a few hundred recipes for what's in your box right now. Ask about what's growing, what to cook, what to plant in your own backyard, or how to deal with whatever the bugs are doing this week.
Members get this as part of their share. Everyone else is welcome to try it.
You pay at the start of the season, share the risk and the reward, and eat what the land gives. Every member gets weekly updates on what's coming out of the field, along with ideas for what to cook with it.
Custom growing agreements for Charleston's kitchens. Weekly delivery, direct line to the farmer.
Not ready for a CSA? Come find us at the market. We bring whatever's ripe that morning — first come, first served.
The big one. Marion Square, downtown Charleston. We've been selling here since the early days — arrive early for the best pick of tomatoes, greens, and eggs.
Our home market on Johns Island. Year-round, rain or shine, under the oaks at Charleston Collegiate. This is where the neighbours shop.
Midweek market at Ackerman Park. Good for restocking between CSA pickups or grabbing whatever we pulled that morning.
Lowland Farms is a small family operation founded in 2011 by Kenneth "Skinny" Melton. Everything here is grown using organic and sustainable methods — no synthetic pesticides, no synthetic fertiliser. Seeds come almost entirely from heirloom sources, managed with cover crops and rotation so the soil keeps giving year after year.
Skinny studied English at the College of Charleston, then spent a decade farming the Sea Islands — from tomatoes and truck crops on Wadmalaw to the diversified rows he keeps today. He runs the farm with his parents Kevin and Debbie, farmhand Anna, four children, and four dogs.
This is not farming at scale. This is farming at care.
Everything here is open-pollinated or heirloom. The varieties are chosen for flavour, not shelf life — the way seed was selected before the supermarket decided otherwise.
What's available changes with the weeks. Members get updates every Monday.
When these chefs say "local," they mean fourteen acres on Johns Island and a farmer named Skinny.
We open the gates for schools, families, and anyone who wants to put their hands in the dirt. This is a working farm. We'll put you to work.
The farm isn't quiet. There's live music under the oaks — local players, the occasional songwriter passing through, and sometimes just Skinny with a guitar at the end of a long day in the rows. It's part of what this place is. You grow food, you feed people, you make music. It all comes from the same impulse.
Check the Instagram for what's coming up, or just show up on a Saturday and see who's playing.
Harvest mornings, field notes, and what's growing. The farm in real time.
Wonderful farm that really cares about the quality of their vegetables. Friendly, great quality, all-around awesome.Amanda Joy
It is nice to see young farmers practice sustainability and produce great vegetables. I've been a part of their CSA for a few seasons and have been happy. Give them a try.John McFaddin
Our first CSA far exceeded our expectations. The variety, the freshness — you can taste the difference the moment you bite in.Cindy Russell
I could eat a gallon of Lowland Farms cherry tomatoes.Sara Miller
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility.Wendell Berry
