Edwin Marty

Edwin Marty

Edwin Marty is founder and executive director of Jones Valley Urban Farm, a non-profit, education and working production farm located in downtown Birmingham, AL. Edwin began Jones Valley while a garden editor for Southern Living Magazine. Over Edwin’s eight-year guidance, Jones Valley has grown from a single vacant lot into a city-wide farm with 28 acres in production that provides food to Frank Stitt’s restaurants, youth nutrition gardening programs for thousands of Birmingham students, and garden plots for low-income housing residents. www.jvuf.org