Our Team

Sammy is the founding farmer of New Town Farms. He received his bachelors of Architecture from UNC Charlotte in 1988. Soon after graduating he experienced a health crisis and a subsequent healing odyssey which landed him back on his family land in a garden working with the soil to produce nutrient dense, flavorful food that didn’t poison our land or our bodies. This health crisis came with an awakening to a health crisis in agriculture, food systems, and food in our age; and with that, a call to farming, educating, and food system reform. By God’s grace healing came and a new path began.

Sammy founded New Town Farms Organic in 1990 as an effort to redeem the blessing of food for health and enjoyment. He began New Town Farms Community Supported Agriculture in 1991. That same year Sammy helped found The Matthews Community Farmers Market; the first producer only farmers market in the Charlotte region. Throughout his life Sammy has loved and benefitted from the restorative powers of good food and good hospitality. When he began farming, the vision of taking the food he grew with so much care, artfully preparing it, and serving it to people on a beautiful farm became a passionate pursuit. Thirty years later this vision is coming to fruition, and Sammy looks forward to sharing his work in hope it is a blessing to you too.