LOCAL FOOD SOURCES

There are lots of good reasons to buy your food locally. First of all, it's nice to know where your food comes from, who grew it and where and what went into it! Buying your food locally supports area farmers and helps maintain the rural character of our area. And, when the food you eat doesn't have to travel thousands of miles to your table, you're helping make our country more energy efficient. That's good for the environment and good for national security. Why wouldn't you eat local?!

Here are some local food sources in the Virginia Piedmont Area.

Fresh and Local CSA
Deliveries to Metro-VA, Metro-MD, DC and Shepherdstown, WV
Products available include biodynamic vegetables, grassfed beef, pastured pork, eggs and organic Kona coffee.

Ayrshire Farms - Upperville
540-592-9504
Products available include organic heritage beef, pork, pastured chicken, organic turkey and eggs

Blue Ridge Beef - Upperville
540-592-3469
mbarreda@earthlink.net
Products available include pastured beef and pastured eggs

Bellemeade - Sperryville
540-987-9748
info@bellemeade.net
Products available include pastured beef and pastured eggs

Toni Bragg - Warrenton
540-347-7053
skytrek@earthlink.net
Organizes ZOOKS delivery from PA
Products available include Dairy Products (milk, cream, yogurt, cheese, kefir), eggs, chicken, duck, beef and produce.

Cibola Farms - Culpeper
540-727-8590
Products available include pastured bison, pastured beef, rabbit, pastured chicken, free range pork, goat meat, lamb and turkey.

Mark & Fran Deren - Fort Valley
540-933-6873
Products available include cow milk, cream and yogurt, goat milk and eggs

Drinking Swamp Farm - Haynesville
Available at Freericksburg and Irvington Farmers Market
804-394-3508
goatboy@sylvaninfo.net
Products available include pastured goat meat products, lamb, veal, cheese.

Field and Flower - Washington, VA
dopray@earthlink.net
Products available include salads.

Golden Acres Orchard - Front Royal
540-636-9611
Products available include apples.

Harmany Highlands - Flint Hill
540-675-1855
harmany@earthlink.net
Products available include pastured beef.

Heartland Harvest Farm - Mt. Solon
540-885-3133 or 540-885-7172
85 Curry Road, Mt. Solon, VA
Products available include chicken, lamb, beef, pork, eggs and turkeys.

Clarke County Farmers Market - Berryville
540-955-4463
Town Parking Lot, S. Church Street, Berryville, VA

Hedgebrook Farm - Winchester
540-450-0310
jackie@hedgebrook.com
Products available include cowshares, pumpkins, apples, peanuts and assorted seasonal produce.

John Kiser - Sperryville
540-987-8445
Products available include pastured pork.

Majesty Farm - North Garden
434-293-5514
info@majestyfarm.com
Products available include cow shares, goat shares, beef, pastured veal, chevon, eggs and other seasonal items.

Manassas Milk Project
703-791-2421 or 540-349-0818
Products available include cow shares.

New Hope Farms - Castleton
540-987-9507
ern8686@aol.com
Products available include pork.

Over The Grass Farm - The Plains
540-253-5228
overthegrass@aol.com
Products available include CSA, year round salad mix, eggs, pastured beef, cow shares, grass finished lamb, honey, homemade jams and jellies, wool and yarn.

Petal to the Metal Farm - Bealeton
540-439-2060
petaltothemetal@aol.com
Products available include pork, lamb, eggs, live rare breed poultry, seedlings and produce.

Piedmont Organics - Linden
540-364-9996
leopold@igc.org
Products available include CSA.

Polyface Farm - Swope
540-885-3590
Deliveries available to Sperryville and Springfield
artncrew@cfw.com
Products available include pastured poultry, Salad Bar Beef, Pigerator Pork, pastured rabbit, pastured eggs, pet food.

Rucker Farm - Flint Hill
540-657-3444
Products available include cow shares, goat shares.

Smithfield Farm - Berryville
877-955-4389
sfarm@visuallink.com
Products available include pastured beef, pastured veal, pastured chicken, pastured pork, pastured goat and pastured eggs.

Stoney Lonesome Farm
703-354-9145
yopablito@hotmail.com
Products available include CSA

Summerfield Farm Products - Culpeper
800-898-3276
Products available include veal, lamb, venison, chicken, game birds and beef.

Touchstone Farm - Amissville
540-937-6124
info@touchstonefarm.org
Products available include pastured lamb, wool and yarn.

Waterpenny Farm - Sperryville
540-987-8567
waterpenny@verizon.net
Products available include CSA, meat deliveries from Polyface, and fresh produce available at local markets.

Seth Godin is one of my favorite author and his blog is a great place to go to get a shot of adrenaline for your brain!

He's got a blog post about The Death of the Farmers' Markets. It's not really so much that the markets themselves are dying as that many of them have been so wildly successful that they've gotten very large and very commercial and now have no room for actual farmers! The farmer's spot has been taken by people selling packaged foods, of course!

I'm happy to say that he's got it wrong in this area! Our farmers markets are still pretty small, local affairs. There are still local producers of local foods there. I hope that will be the case for a very long time. Maybe that's one of the advantages of living in a more rural area!

And, if you're on the lookout for local food sources you might want to check out the page I've added to my web site with sources of local foods, directly from the people who have grown them. If you've got additional sources that I'm unaware of, please let me know and I'll be happy to add them!