This might sound completely irrelevant to you, but we are so incredibly thrilled to have our salad mix back. The issue is not growing the lettuces but growing them successfully in the relentless heat of the past few weeks. This is a matter of great pride to us. The secret: blocking about 40% of sunlight by means of a shade cloth and keeping the crop cool by constant sprinkling it (4-5 times per day). We are blessed to have fresh greens in this kind of weather. We hope you enjoy them.
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Salad Mix is Back!
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.