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Farm Happenings at Willowsford Farm
Winter CSA
Summer seems to pass more quickly with each year; once again, I find myself surprised that there are only ten weeks left to this CSA season! Our first distributions of September are approaching, and they are filled with squash, fennel, beets, radishes, and other old friends from Autumn. With this s1 read more »
A Welcome Change of Pace
As I write this, the sky is a bright grey muffling the afternoon sun, and the air in the farm office is a good six degrees warmer than the air outside. Today is the first cool day in a long, long time. Those of you who have eager dogs to walk after dark, or who sip coffee on porches before sunrise1 read more »
Beyond Basil (CSA August 24)
My first memory of fresh herbs in the kitchen is my mother, with a small pair of shears, trimming a comically large pile of fresh curly parsley for her homemade turkey stuffing at Thanksgiving. This became my holiday kitchen task when I was hold enough to wield the kitchen scissors, and for years1 read more »
Beyond Basil
My first memory of fresh herbs in the kitchen is my mother, with a small pair of shears, trimming a comically large pile of fresh curly parsley for her homemade turkey stuffing at Thanksgiving. This became my holiday kitchen task when I was hold enough to wield the kitchen scissors, and for years I1 read more »
Did Someone Say Winter? (CSA Aug 17)
"Did Someone Say Winter?"
It seems surreal to even type the dreaded word "Winter" in a week when we've harvested hundreds of melons and Googled "recipes for when it's too hot to cook", and yet... here we are! We're farming in August, preparing for October, and dreaming of December. This week also m1 read more »
Did Someone Say Winter?
It seems surreal to even type the dreaded word "Winter" in a week when we've harvested hundreds of melons and Googled "recipes for when it's too hot to cook", and yet... here we are! We're farming in August, preparing for October, and dreaming of December. This week also marks the halfway point of1 read more »
Choose Your Own Adventure
There’s more to the shifting landscape of farming in the last century than the evolution of technology. Tractors and inputs have certainly changed, but it can be argued that a more significant factor is the emergence of a global marketplace. Transportation advances have flooded us with produc1 read more »
About the farm
Willowsford Farm is a certified organic vegetable and livestock farm in Loudoun County, Virgina. Our farm is a creative, productive use of the green space within the Willowsford community that honors the agricultural history of our area. Our CSA membership is open to the public, and we consider all of NoVa our neighbors. Through farming, education, and land stewardship, we’re building a model for intentional, sustainable, delicious eating- one CSA box at a time!
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