The reason you had not seen a lot of cucumbers in your boxes this year is that a cucumber-beetle infestation unfortunately killed our first crop (an entire hoop house). If we were a cucumber-only farm that would be a big problem (or maybe not as we would probably have blasted the entire farm with harmful pesticides to save the crop). But we took the lost with good spirits and trusted God had a better plan. Did he? You bet. Not only the second crop of cucumbers is thriving but the lost of the first crop opened up room for an abundant harvest of onions that needed a warm but ventilated shelter to cure. So, hoop house 5 is full of onions, instead of cucumbers. And that is the beauty of small-scale diversified agriculture. When something fails there is always something else to make up for it. That is resilience. And, guess what, this week you will not only see dry onions in your boxes but also cucumbers from the second crop. Everybody wins. We are blessed and so are you.
About the farm
We are a small family farm located in Grottoes, Virginia, serving the city of Harrisonburg and the counties of Rockingham, Augusta, and Greene. We produce high-quality food using sustainable practices and ethical principles of care for the common good. Having witnessed the healing power of good food in dealing with family health issues, we started farming in 2015 in an effort to sharing with others the benefits of fresh, nutritionally-dense food, grown in a clean environment, using integrative agricultural methods. We believe that in order for food to be healthful, the environment in which it grows has to be healthy. To that end, we integrate animal and plant systems in ways that, in their natural interactions, they create an ecological balance leading to abundance and quality.
We grow over 50 different vegetable crops, perennial vegetables and fruits, and raise pastured pork, as well as ducks and chickens, for meat and eggs.
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We grow over 50 different vegetable crops, perennial vegetables and fruits, and raise pastured pork, as well as ducks and chickens, for meat and eggs.