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Farm Happenings at Willowsford Farm
In a Pickle
The frost hasn't hit yet, but we can see it on the horizon. Mornings are crisp and cool, broccolini is sprouting, and pumpkins adorn doorsteps and dinner tables. After so very long, summer is well and truly over. As the contents of our shares (and plates!) change with the seasons, we use every tool1 read more »
Everything's Coming Up Roasted
One of the best side-effects of (finally) cooling temperatures is that it becomes bearable to turn on an oven again! Summer salsas, chilled salads, and kabobs from the grill are heavenly in their time; still, I have missed my Dutch oven and my cast iron pans.
Roasting is my default cooking method.1 read more »
Good Company
Good afternoon, Farm-ily-
Fall is still playing hide-and-seek, but today it is hiding behind some truly beautiful weather! I can almost forgive the thermometer for reading above 80 when it comes with these cornflower blue skies, sweet breezes, and dry air. Farming is joyful work on days like these.1 read more »
The More Things Change
Though seasons may change, and even the names of the farms we work, weather is the constant companion of all growers. Weather is fickle. Weather can be friend, or foe, or both in the same day. Most all, of she is inescapable. The sum of all her many faces, the pattern she creates, is climate. Gener1 read more »
Who's Your Farmer?
Something changes in the air on the farm the day the high tunnels are turned from a tomato jungle into a nursery for beets and carrots. Fall must really be on its way, and days like yesterday are just a fleeting reminder of summer. One of the best parts of summer was getting to know each of you and1 read more »
An Apple A Day
Clearly, we love our veggies. After all, we’re vegetable farmers, first and foremost. But despite our deep adoration of all the varieties of winter squash we’re harvesting right now, we know that fall is also apple season. We can make room in our hearts for some homemade apple sauce alo1 read more »
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 »
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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