Minimal tillage
We disturb the soil as little as possible and cultivate with hand tools, so the living web underground keeps working for the plants above it.
Our story
From urban asphalt to country soil
Located along a busy road but in the heart of the pastoral Shenandoah Valley, we are a small family farm growing a wide variety of fruit and vegetable field and greenhouse crops year round without the use of pesticides or any other synthetic material.
We practice regenerative, or stewardship, agriculture: minimal tillage, hand-tool cultivation, cover cropping, generous applications of compost and other natural sources of fertility, and pollinator and predatory insect habitat landscaping. Our goal is to protect our small piece of the earth and the plant-supporting biology it contains while fostering a sustainable, overarching farm ecology characterized by healthy, symbiotic relationships between its various elements.
The results are made available to our farm-to-table restaurant, caterer, and natural food store customers in Harrisonburg, Staunton, and Charlottesville, and to you by way of a variety of flexible CSA programs. Additionally, we enjoy supporting neighborhood food banks and individual families in need, as well as providing interning opportunities.
We do all this to honor the One who led us from urban asphalt to country soil in 2008 in pursuit of this work, and in response to the call to love our neighbor as ourself.