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Farm Happenings at Potomac Vegetable Farms
Week 14: Permanence (concrete) and Fleeting Joy (tomatoes)
It took a long time to get all the pieces in place--the fill dirt, the electric line, the gravel, the rebar, but the hardest part was getting the time and the people to line up. While every other person on the farm was at the farmers markets or picking vegetables for the markets, Stephen had a crew1 read more »
Week 13: In The Weeds
This is such a weedy time of year. There are particular parts of the season when we look so beautiful that we are ready to host a wedding -- usually in late June and early July and when we look like we absolutely know what we are doing. This is not that time. I took a fellow farmer around on1 read more »
Week 12: Mid-August Already? And Canning Tomatoes!
Farm Notes is online! It's Tomato Season at last!!! Tomato season, and tomatoes themselves, hold a special place in the hearts of every PVF farmer. Read what tomato season means to us.
Leaving July behind was a huge relief, and August is proving to be quite different from that broiling hot month. N1 read more »
Week 11: Soggy But Safe
If you haven't signed up for the Autumn Share yet, now is the time. Just go into your account and register. We are starting to plant our fall crops and it helps to know how many CSA members we will be feeding!
We never like a hurricane, and the very idea of a tornado fills us with horror. But1 read more »
Week 10: Farewell to Leafy Greens, Hello Micro-Greens
We have had a lot of questions about the earlybird sign up credit that folks were not seeing reflected in their accounts. Everyone who paid in full by April 15 has now received a $25 credit on their account. This credit can be used toward any extras you might want to purchase. You can add thes1 read more »
Week 9: Onion Harvest
We reach a steady stream of milestones throughout the season--the first seeds in the ground, the last frost, planting the last onions by the end of April, pulling garlic by July 4. The cycle is predictable and filled with uncertainty at the same time. Weather is rarely perfectly cooperative.
Onions1 read more »
Week 8: Half Way Through the Summer Season and Tomatoes Are On The Horizon
We have gotten a few questions about substitutions in our pre-packed/delivery shares. We always do our best to fill your orders as planned. Farming is a very fluid life, and so sometimes what is in the fields is not what we expected, or what is in the cooler is not as we planned, or another farmer1 read more »
Week 7: Plants Love This Swampy Weather
This week's newsletter, Farm Notes, is all about community and farming, farming as a community, and the community of our farm. Be sure to read the inspiring stories.
We are starting earlier in the day and ending before the peak heat of the late afternoon. The humidity has been intense, and the plan1 read more »
Week 6: And now it is really summer.
It is Fourth of July weekend, but we are business as usual. The CSA will run normal hours, the Roadside Stands are open, and we will be at all our usual markets.
The other day Ciara was looking at our first tomatoes in the field --she said she was just LOOKING--when an almost ripe cherry tomato fel1 read more »
About the farm
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Our farm has been in operation since 1962 and is owned and managed by three women farmers (with lots of help). We have two farms in Northern Virginia -- the hub is in Fairfax County and the larger production farm is in Loudoun County. We grow our vegetables ecoganically (focusing on soil health, human health and long term sustainability) and sell them at seven farmers markets, our two roadside stands, and through the CSA.
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Our farm has been in operation since 1962 and is owned and managed by three women farmers (with lots of help). We have two farms in Northern Virginia -- the hub is in Fairfax County and the larger production farm is in Loudoun County. We grow our vegetables ecoganically (focusing on soil health, human health and long term sustainability) and sell them at seven farmers markets, our two roadside stands, and through the CSA.