Our produce is Certified Organic!
Our Animals
All our animals are raised on pasture. Chickens and turkeys live in open-bottomed pens, shaded and protected from predators, and are moved daily to a new patch of grass. Our cattle are grassfed and are also moved to new pasture each day or two during the growing season.
In our store in July
We grow a rich variety of vegetables, including many for winter storage. Varieties suited to storage are called "good keepers." To achieve top quality, we focus first on the ongoing process of growing living soil. Careful stewardship of diverse soil life unlocks nutrition for plants and nurtures enemies of crop pests and diseases. We also select resistant varieties and do some seed saving to pass on genes of the most successful plants. We use physical barriers such as row cover and insect netting to exclude challenging bugs like cucumber beetles and flea beetles. Crop rotation and other traditional practices contribute to these efforts. We also use organic-approved pesticides. Typically these are soaps for soft-bodied insects like aphids (Safer Soap), or preparations of naturally-occurring bacteria or fungi for other pests (Bt and Regalia).
We use no herbicides. We rely instead on cultivation (disturbing soil to kill weed seedlings, aka hoeing) and mulches (plant material, plastic sheeting, and landscape fabric) to reduce weed competition for crop plants.
Our Fruit
Our tree fruit is grown by Three Springs Fruit Farm which is just 15 minutes down the road from us! They use Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to manage pests and disease, intervening as surgically as possible. Blackberries, strawberries, and blueberries we provide and are grown spray free!
Our Eggs
Our laying hen house is moved daily on new pasture where they forage for bugs, grass and seeds.
Our Bread
Our bread is from bakery and flour mill Talking Breads located in Mechanicsburg, PA. They bake old world European breads using high quality freshly milled, organic flours, whole grain, whole wheat, rye and spelt flours.
Our gluten free bread is from Amaranth Gluten Free Bakery in Lancaster, PA. All of their products are made in a 100% dedicated gluten free facility.
Our Dairy
Produced by Apple Valley Creamery, a small family run dairy in East Berlin, PA. Their milk is Animal Welfare Approved (AWA) and provide everything from raw milk, whole milk, skim milk, 1.5% milk, chocolate, mocha milk, heavy cream and half & half creamer. When you pick up your CSA share you order your milk for the following week. They come in quarts or half gallons and all milk is bottled in glass so you simply return your bottle the following week and we provide you a full one