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Glen Eco Farm
Contact: Marlin Burkholder
Address: Singers Glen, VA
Phone: 540-833-8802
Email: burkholders@glenecofarm.com
Products: Vegetables, berries, pasture-produced eggs.
Availability: Farmers Market: Saturday April-November; On Farm: year round if available.
About Us: Family operated farm committed to sustainable agriculture principles and local marketing. Member of Virginia Association of Biological Farmers. Community Supported Agriculture shares available by signup in late winter.
Farming practices and philosophy: 1) Minimal use of toxic chemicals for pest control. 2) Use of animal manures, compost, organic mulches and plowed-down cover crops as primary means to maintain soil fertility. 3) Limited use of purchased organic and chemical fertilizers for starting plants, transplanting and side dressing field crops. 4) Strip cropping and contour tillage to conserve water and to prevent soil erosion. 5) Crop rotation to control pests and plant diseases. 6) Mechanical cultivation, hand weeding, flaming and use of plastic and organic mulches to control weeds. 7) Livestock and poultry kept on clean pasture.
Grains of Sense
Contact: Tom Hayman, Founder, Roaster & Operations Manager
Address: Staunton, VA
Email: contact@grainsofsense.com
Products: Fresh, hand-roasted Certified Organic, Certified Fair Trade, and Certified Virginia’s Finest, Artisan Coffees all roasted by us in Staunton, VA. Grains of Sense® coffees are sold in 8 oz bags and can be purchased in whole bean or, weather permitting, freshly-ground. We also sell fresh-roasted, fresh-brewed coffee all year and, in the summer season iced coffee “by-the-cup”. In addition a limited, selection of flavored coffees are available upon special request..
Availability: All year.
Practices and philosophy: We are truly certified…Grains of Sense® is an inspected, accredited and registered Certified USDA Organic Processor. Through our Fair Trade Certification and as a Licensed Partner with FairTrade USA, formerly TransFair-USA, we promote and financially support programs that improve the lives of the people living in the communities where each origin of coffee we buy, roast and sell was grown. The Fair Trade Certified logo we place on each of our packages, means that we not only support the farmers and community from whence the coffees originate but that Grains of Sense® supports the global Fair Trade movement of all Fair Trade products.
In addition to our coffees being Fair Trade Certified and Certified USDA Organic, our Grains of Sense® coffees have also been certified as Virginia’s Finest through the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
At Grains of Sense® we consider roasting coffee as fine art… We begin by first selecting the most distinguished coffees that can be obtained from the world’s coffee growing regions. Then much like a sculptor who can see the beauty and finished work in a raw piece of stone or wood, we roast the beans in small batches with minute attention to detail paid to every step and aspect of the roasting process – time, temperature, fan speed and airflow, each being documented until completed – each roast a masterpiece, each replicable. The result, coffees of extraordinary flavor and smoothness that showcase the subtle flavor nuances hidden in each coffee from the region whence it originated but brought forth through skillful roasting – and being completely honest, a little help from above!
Green Haven Farm Cheeses
Contact: Pam Green
Address: 3456 St. Luke Rd. Woodstock, VA 22664
Phone: 540-459-3783
Email: ghfarm@shentel.net
Products: Farm-fresh goat cheeses: feta, soft cheeses (chives & garlic, Western ranch, Southern ranch, & plain) plus cheddar & jalapeno cheddar style hard cheeses.
Availability: Our cheeses are mainly available during “market season,” which is April through October at the Harrisonburg Farmers Market. We will accept special orders for the soft cheeses during the winter months. Our soft cheeses are also available at the Market in Woodstock and North Mountain Vineyard year round.
About Us: We are located in the “Heart of the Shenandoah Valley” where we raise our purebred Nubian “girls,” which are very spoiled. Our babies are bottle raised so they make great pets. Our “girls” are milked twice a day and are fed orchard grass/alfalfa hay and grain feed, which we mix ourselves. Our cheeses are all natural with no preservatives being used. We are licensed and permitted by the Department of Agriculture.
Besides the goats, we also raise purebred Black Angus cattle that Loren and Mary enjoy showing at local, state and regional beef shows. We have also added two young Llamas to our family this winter which we greatly enjoy!
Farming practices and philosophy: We are a simple farm and try to be as conservative as possible. We have a love for our animals and our land and treat both with great respect. Our farm is a “family affair” with all four of us sharing in the responsibilities.
Gristmill Bakery
Contact: Ann Borgmann
Phone: 540-383-4677
Email: gristmillbakery@aol.com
Products: Artisan pastries (French & American), croissants, scones, seasonal fruit tarts, frosted decorated cookies, German Christmas pastries, Gingerbread cookies.
Availability: April through December at the Market. Will do custom orders with a 3-day notice.
About Us: Owner trained in culinary schools in France and Italy, uses local seasonal fruits and high-quality ingredients.
Hawks Nest Farm
Contact: Orv Lehman
Address: 5947 Harpine Highway, Linville, VA
Phone: 540-560-4847
Email: coolmtnman@verizon.net
Products: Shiitake mushrooms grown on White Oak logs.
Availability: Saturdays, April through November.
Farming practices and philosophy: To provide a fresh and wholesome food that is nutritious and healthy at a reasonable cost. Most of the logs I use were cut from an area where a power company cleared trees to prevent trees from falling on power lines. No pesticides or sprays are used.
Hickory Hill Farm
Contact: Samuel Johnson
Address: Keezletown, VA
Email: blueberries.smwj@gmail.com
Website:hickoryhillfarm.wordpress.com
Products: Blueberries, concord-type grapes, fall vegetables: broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, and Chinese cabbage.
Availability: Blueberries: 3-4 weeks generally, starting in June. Concord-type grapes: late August – late September. Fall vegetables: late August – November.
About Us: Hickory Hill Farm is run by the Johnson family (Samuel, Margaret, Bart and Hannah) and crew (Grant, Jason and Ryan). Grant and others represent us at the Market. Stop by our stand, introduce yourself to Grant and see what he has to offer for your weekly food shopping or your bulk food preservation. Celebrating over 30 years of living and farming near Keezletown, VA next to Massanutten Mountain!
Farming practices and philosophy: We strive to use a sustainable approach to agriculture. We do this by working to minimize the use of sprays on the produce we sell and to use materials that are safer for ourselves, our customers and the environment. Specifically, our goals are to use: no spray on the blueberries, fewer and safer sprays on grapes and biological sprays on vegetables.
Jan Carter Designs
Contact: Jan Carter
Horn beads from Africa, inlaid beads from Nepal, Tibetan and Chinese beads. Turquoises used include browns, yellows and blues, as well as purple turquoise from Peru, white turquoise from China and green turquoise from Africa. Jan has a knack for choosing unusual stones and beautifully incorporating multicultural items into stunning one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry. It is not unusual for one of her pieces to include materials from five or more different nationalities. All clasps and findings are either sterling silver or copper. Special orders are welcomed, and prices begin at $20.00.
Jerry’s Berries
Contact: Jerry L. Fields
Address: 633 Wisman Road, Woodstock, VA 22664
Phone: 540-459-5482 or 540-333-2677 (cell)
Email: jerrysberries@yahoo.com
Products: Organic berries, including raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, and blueberries.
Availability: Tuesday and Saturday during berry season.
About us: Jerry’s Berries is a post-retirement business focusing on organic berry production. This diverse berry farm includes raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, and blueberries. The berry varieties were selected to stretch production from June through October and include blue and pink blueberries and a variety of raspberry colors.
J & L Green Farm
Contact: Jordan & Laura Green
Address: 4176 Swover Creek Rd, Edinburg, VA 22824
Phone: 540-333-1468 or 4867
Email: jlgreenfarm@yahoo.com
Website: www.jlgreenfarm.blogspot.com
Products: Beef, lamb, pork, eggs from chickens and ducks, and hot sandwiches.
Availability: Tuesday and Saturday year round.
About us: J &L Green Farm is your local source for clean meat! Featuring 100% grass-fed beef & lamb, forest-finished pork and eggs from chickens and ducks on pasture. Visit our website for more info and also friend us on Facebook.
Joe’s Sausage
Contact: Joe Pehan
Phone: 540-886-3632
Products: German Bratwurst
Availability: Full Season, Tuesdays only.
About Us: Our bratwursts are made fresh from an old family recipe. We sell it cooked and ready to eat or fresh frozen to take home and enjoy.
Knoll Acres
Contact: Roman Miller
Address: 4956 Singers Glen Road, Harrisonburg, VA 22802
Email: roman.miller@northriver.coop
Website: www.knollacresblueberries.com
Products: Certified organic blueberries.
Availability: Tuesdays, June through August.
About Us: Our blueberry horticultural group consists of myself (Roman Miller), my wife (Elva Miller) and our youngest daughter (Zoya Miller). We have a young operation based on a planting of blueberry bushes in the fall of 2009. We hand-pick and grade our blueberries for the market. Elva makes many of the blueberry value-added products, such as blueberry sauce, that we sell. We raise our blueberries in a split operation: most of our bushes are in our organic-certified plot, and a smaller comparative plot contains our conventional bushes. Our blueberry harvest season normally extends from mid-June until early August each year.
Farming practices & philosophy: We are currently conducting a multi-year experiment to determine optimal organic horticultural practices that enhance blueberry production. For example, we have four different organic plots based on different compost and soil additive treatments and are measuring differences in soil profiles, cultivar growth and vigor responses to the varying soil types and productivity and fruit quality from five different northern high-bush blueberry varieties. Our goal is to maintain a small commercial organic blueberry operation that produces quality fruit and is economically sustainable.
Korner Lot Farm
Contact: Sharon Payne
Email: egglady710@yahoo.com.sg
Products: White and brown free-range eggs, decorated cakes, fruit breads, cookies, pimento cheese, hot chocolate (winter), fruit smoothies (summer).
About Us: Chickens raised on a 4.5-acre farm, free-range with no antibiotics.
Lincoln Homestead Farms
Contact: Randall Shank
Phone: 540-896-1205
Email: rndyshnk@msn.com
Products: Vegetables, herbs, bedding plants, flowers, occasional baked goods (Randall is owner of Shank’s Bakery), pottery (stoneware).
Availability: April – November.
Farming practices and philosophy: Farming in a responsible manner is important to us because we “eat what we grow” and know what goes into the soil. We have farmed at the Lincoln Homestead for over 23 years.