Our Story

Our mission

As good stewards, Southern Belle Farm strives to honor our God-given family heritage to create a wholesome atmosphere, which strengthens family bonds within our communities and staff, while educating the public about agriculture.

Our roots

The Carter family has farmed Henry County for eight generations — five of them on this very land. In 1938, J.A. Carter, who had grown up sharecropping, saved enough to buy a place of his own: the beginning of what is now Southern Belle Farm. A family dairy followed, growing across generations to hundreds of Holsteins before the farm transitioned to beef cattle and hay in the 1980s.

The dream of opening the farm to the public took root in 2005, when Jake Carter returned after college to help build an educational agritourism farm alongside the cattle operation. The first corn maze went in the ground in 2006 — and twenty years later, the farm welcomes families and school groups year-round to pick, play, and learn where their food comes from.

A family legacy

Today Southern Belle Farm is 330 acres of working farmland, u-pick fields, and family traditions — still owned and worked by the Carter family, still teaching the next generation what growing things takes.