Late-summer view from the farm's hilltop meadow across wooded West Virginia ridges

Spencer · Roane County · West Virginia

Vegetables and poultry from an off-grid ridge farm.

Montani Farms is 80 acres of West Virginia hillside. We grow greenhouse and market-garden crops and raise poultry — all on our own solar power.

See what we grow Where to buy

80 acres of hillside pasture and hardwood forest

Off-grid solar array and battery bank

High tunnel for a longer growing season

Since 2022 building this farm from raw ground

What we grow

Two things, done carefully: crops under cover and birds on the hill.

The farm's high tunnel greenhouse on a grassy rise with mountains behind

Greenhouse & market garden

Our high tunnel stretches the season at both ends, so beds keep producing well after frost settles into the hollows. Outside it, the open market-garden beds carry the summer crops.

Brussels sprouts growing in containers inside the high tunnel

Brussels sprouts holding through December inside the tunnel.

Tomatoes
Peppers
Squash
Sweet corn
Cucumbers
Melons

Young chicks huddled under a red heat lamp in the brooder

Poultry

Chicks are brooded here on the farm, then move out to a coop built tight — this is fisher, coyote and bear country, and we build for it.

Birds inside a wire-and-timber coop with a hanging feeder

Timber-framed, hardware-cloth coops we build ourselves.

Fresh eggs
Meat birds

How we farm

Working with the hill, not against it.

Our own power

The farm runs off-grid on a solar array and battery bank. The lights in the brooder and the fans in the tunnel are sun-powered.

A longer season

Under the high tunnel we start earlier in spring and harvest later into winter than open ground allows in these hills.

A working woodland

Most of the farm is hardwood forest — black walnut, elderberry, white oak — and we farm alongside it rather than clearing it.

From the farm

A season on the ridge.

Freshly tilled market-garden ground below a green hillside, with chickens foraging nearby — Spring tillage in the lower field.

Turkey tail mushrooms growing on a lichen-covered log — Turkey tail on a fallen log in the woods.

A litter of spotted piglets resting in the dirt beside farm equipment — Spring piglets, 2024.

Where to buy

Find us at the Spencer Farmers Market.

Where Spencer Farmers Market Spencer, West Virginia

When Fridays & Saturdays April through September · 8 am – 1 pm

What Eggs, meat birds & produce Whatever the tunnel and garden are giving that week.

Market updates on Facebook Questions? alton@montanifarms.com

Montani Farms Games

We also grow games.

Long winter nights on an off-grid farm go into building games for mixed reality. Our first one is in development for Meta Quest.

Coming soon · Meta Quest · Mixed reality

Loop the Room

Build toy-car tracks right in your own room — loops, ramps and drops over the furniture (and around the dog) — then let it roll.

Get notified at launch

Mixed-reality view of orange toy-car track with loops and ramps built around a real room, with a dog sitting in the middle of the course — In-headset capture from development. The farm dog was not consulted on track layout.