Our salad mix has been our most popular item at the Farmer's Market for over two years, and it is quickly becoming a favorite among our Harvie CSA members. We vary our salad mix slightly through the season, adding baby Asian greens and baby kale when the weather is cool enough for those crops. But the core of our salad mix is a combination of five different types of leaf lettuces, Salanova, developed by Johnny's Selected Seeds to please the most demanding palate. Salanovas stand out not only for their delicious flavor but also for their crunchy texture and freshness. They are wonderful to harvest and use in mixes because the leaves are uniformly bite size. Since we cut the leaves at the narrow end, it significantly reduces the browning and bruising thus increasing the shelf life and freshness. We typically mix all five seed packets so that when we start the seeds they are already scrambled for the mix. We also grow them on perforated landscaping fabric. It virtually neutralizes any weeds while keeping the lettuces clean from transplant to harvest. After harvest we wash our salad mix twice to ensure that you receive a thoroughly clean, ready-to-eat, salad mix that you will be satisfied with.
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.