Hall's Organic Farms

About us

Hall’s Organic Farms was founded in 2012 by Stevie Hall to grow the best organic and sustainably grown vegetables and fruit he could on a small plot of land.

Salinas native Hall started with just a quarter-acre, beginning with a crop of lettuce,which he says “failed miserably.” But that first crop launched Hall’s Organic Farms. Hall persevered, thanks to the Agricultural and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA), a nonprofit Salinas-based program that trains beginning farmers, and supported that initial effort.
 
Hall improved his skills, expanded his acreage and increased the types of crops grown on the farm —he now grows 40 different varieties of vegetables and fruit, including six kinds of strawberries, on 15 acres of land. Hall’s Farm strawberries have become his calling card — he grows Albion, Monterey, Sweet Ann, Camarosa, Cabrillo and White Pine, each with their own subtle and delicious distinctions.

His organic produce is now available at nine different farmers’ markets, from the Bay Area to Carmel. He supplies six to seven restaurants on the Monterey Peninsula (now temporarily suspended due to Covid precautions), including Montrio Bistro, Casanova and Tarpy’s Roadhouse. The farm also delivers, often by Stevie personally, dozens of “farm boxes” filled with vegetables, fruit and “add-ons,” such as coffee, eggs and rustic bread.
 
One of Monterey County’s youngest independent farmers at age 30, Hall knew he wanted to be a farmer as early as his high school days. At Salinas High School, he raised animals in Future Farmers’ of America and the 4-H Club, learning ownership and taking responsibility of animals at a young age. After graduating high school in 2008, Stevie attended Hartnell College, where he took classes in crop production and food safety while working towards a degree in crop production. While at Hartnell, he simultaneously took a part-time position as an intern at the USDA Agricultural Research Service, where he learned the tools and techniques to start his own farm.

Hall then completed a course through local nonprofit Agriculture and Land Based Training which resulted in a business plan, and led to that original quarter acre, thus starting his own farm.
 
Established in 2001, ALBA works to represent a growing niche of small farmers otherwise dwarfed by the agricultural giants in the area. In addition to training aspiring farmers in organic agriculture production, business planning, and marketing, ALBA goes a step further to ensure the economic and social success of their students. 

Hall’s Organic Farms is a prime example of the powerful platform that ALBA has created for beginning farmers. Hall’s own desire for organic produce paired with ALBA’s commitment to ecological land management has given him and many others the tools to manage his farm with both economic viability and sustainability in mind.

His future plans include not only expanding his acreage and crops, but adding animals such as chicken and livestock for grazing. The sky’s the limit for this resourceful and enthusiastic young farmer.