Our mission

full moon cooperative is committed to grassroots transformation through ecological & nutritional empowerment.

Full Moon Cooperative is a Community Supported Farm and research education center founded in 2002 by a group of farmers, ecologists, culinary artists, activists, and educators.

Our mission is to offer innovative and community-based solutions to the most critical environmental, economic, and social challenges of our time. By providing our local communities with an experience that honors the ancient and fundamental connections between food, land and people, we hope to nurture a more sustainable and just future.

Full Moon Cooperative is located in Athens, Georgia, 60 miles east of Atlanta and 5 miles from downtown Athens. Full Moon Cooperative is part of Spring Valley Farm, a 100-acre historic farm that hosts a diverse range of natural beauty, ecological systems, and agricultural history.   Due to its unique historical ecology Spring Valley Farm is a model environment for conservation, restoration, and sustainable development. As well, the Cooperative operates in collaboration with the University of Georgia's renowned Institute of Ecology to combine research, education, and local public outreach.

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Farm Ethic
We farm with intention and sensibility.
We farm to improve ecology through wise economy.
We farm to improve our land and preserve its agricultural value for future generations.
We farm with respect for the safety of our workers, our customers, and ourselves.
We farm to protect the environment we all depend on.
We farm because we love to farm

Adaptive management
One of the goals of FullMoon is to co-create with the agroecology lab in the development of an adaptive management model to improve organic farming in the Southeast through the integration of community supported farming, on-farm research, and education.

Since the late 1970s, adaptive management has been developed as a method to incrementally improve land management by treating choices as a series of experiments. Through continual feedback, both from the results of ongoing research, and through collaboration with stakeholders both locally and regionally, adaptive management offers the opportunity for a scientific perspective to inform management practices within a larger context of uncertainty and change. Spring Valley Farm is uniquely positioned to bring together the fruits of ongoing university research and the commercial accountability of community supported farming, all within a contextof ongoing dialogue between farmers, educators, researchers, students, and the larger community. Through the integration of objectives at all levels in the farming and research system, we seek to develop a functioning model for adaptive management that can be emulated and adapted to other farming systems.