Farmers' Markets | CSAs | Farms | Stores | Co-ops | Resources | Restaurants

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Farmers' Markets

http://www.loudounfarmersmarkets.com/

Loudoun maintains several producers-only farmers markets in Loudoun County.  The Summer market season begins the first week in May and continues through the end of October.  

 

Cascades

            Sundays 9am-1pm, The Senior Center, 21060 Whitfield Place

Leesburg

            Summer Saturdays 9am-1pm, Virginia Village Shopping Center

            Winter Saturdays 10am-1pm, Virginia Village Shopping Center

Brambleton

            Sundays, 9am-1pm, location TBD opens June 7, 2009

Middleburg

            Saturdays 8am-12pm, Marshall Street

Purcellville

            Summer Thursdays 4pm-7pm, 21st Street, across from the train station

            Year Round Saturdays 10am-1pm, 130 E. Main Street, next to the Purcellville Town Office

Ashburn 

            Saturdays, 8am - noon, Ryan Park Shopping Center, 43480 Yukon Drive

Retail Stores

1.Healthy By Nature 9 Catoctin Cir SW, Leesburg (703) 443-6632 healthbn@aol.com

2.Natural Mercantile of Hamilton 341 E Colonial Hwy, Hamilton (540) 338-7080 www.naturalmercantile.com

3.For Goodness Sake    205 Harrison St SE, Leesburg (703) 771-7146

4.Healthways 160 W Main St Purcellville (540) 338-2240

5.Healthways Shops at Cedar Lakes Sterling (703) 430-4430

6.Wegmans 45131 Columbia Place Sterling (703) 421-2400

7.Home Farm Store 1 East Washington St Middleburg, VA 540-687-8882 www.homefarmstore.com

8.Natural Alternatives  1025 W Main St, Berryville, VA 22611

9.Harvest Moon Natural Foods 3113 Valley Ave # 106 Winchester, VA (540) 678-8872

10.Trader Joe's11958 Killingsworth Ave.  Reston (703) 689-0865

11.Whole Foods Market11660 Plaza America Dr. Reston, VA (703) 736-0600

12.Common Market - 5728 Buckeystown Pike Frederick, MD (301) 663-3416 www.commonmarket.coop

13.My Organic Market - 5273 Buckeystown Pike Frederick MD (301) 663-3416 www.myorganicmarket.com

 

 

Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs)

1.      Great Country Farms - The Zurschmeide family owns a 186-acre farm near Bluemont.  Shares season extends 22 weeks, includes vegetables, herbs and fruit. Weekly pick-up or home delivery of shares available.  Not organic; mostly pesticide free; all berries chemical free.
Call Kate at (540) 554-2073 farmer@greatcountryfarms.com, http://www.greatcountryfarms.com/

2.      Potomac Vegetable Farms - Potomac Vegetable Farms-Ellen Polishuk manages this eco-ganic farm in Purcellville.  Vegetables, herbs, cut flowers and eggs are available through the CSA program, at the Purcellville and Leesburg markets, and at her roadside stand.
Contact Ellen at 540-882-3885, ellen@potomacvegetablefarms.comhttp://www.potomacvegetablefarms.com/

3.      Stoneybrook Organic Farm - 45 acre certified organic farm provides 20 week CSA. Members will receive a box of local, certified Organic produce each week. Members will pick up their box at our Farm Stand on Route 9 in Hillsboro every Wednesday, from June 17th to October 28th.
Call 540.668.6031, info@stoneybrookfarm.org, http://www.stoneybrookfarm.org/

4.      Blue Ridge Center Mountain View Farm This community farm located NW of Hillsboro features heirloom tomatoes, many unique vegetables and herbs, pasture-raised broilers, free-range eggs. Sustainable practices used throughout the farm.
Contact Shawna at 540-668-7640, sdewitt@blueridgecenter.org http://www.brces.org/farming/

5.      Moutoux Orchards CSA - Offering a diverse mixed vegetable CSA with an opportunity to buy additional goodies at pickup (fruit, flour, and eggs). The 2009 season will be 18 weeks long, starting July 1st. On farm (Rt 9 East of Hillsboro) pickup Wednesday afternoons from 4-7 as well as Wednesday delivery to the Leesburg area.
Contact Rob at moutouxorchard@yahoo.com, http://www.moutouxorchard.com

6.      Fresh and Local - Biodynamically grown, nutritionally dense organic vegetables and fruit. Also eggs from pastured chickens and grass-fed beef and pork. Call to learn of a distribution point in your neighborhood or pick up at the farm.
Call Allan (540) 253-5778, allan@freshandlocalcsa.com, http://www.freshandlocalcsa.com/

 

 

Farm Food

Fresh From the Valleys:   http://www.loudounfarms.org/ There are over 80 farms providing produce, meat, flowers and textiles for Loudouners to enjoy. Visit this Loudoun farms website for farms to find local sources for foods you like. The printed Loudoun Farms Product Guide is now available! Request your copy by email: info@loudounfarms.org! Buy Fresh Buy Local   http://www.buylocalvirginia.org/ Helps consumers find local products while building relationships between growers, food artisans, farmers markets retailers, restaurants, and institutions.  A Searchable Database of Loudoun growers and farmers as well as a Downloadable Guide are available.

 

 

Food Co-ops

1.      Quail Cove Farms http://www.quailcovefarms.com/ - A family owned and operated organic farm specializing in natural and organic foods. Our natural foods farm and warehouse located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia delivers regularly to multiple drop points in Loudoun County.  Farm contact: (800) 286-1452.  

 

2.      Polyface Farms http://www.polyfacefarms.com/ - a family owned, multi-generational, pasture-based, beyond organic, local-market farm and informational outreach in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.   Leesburg delivery every 8 weeks. Farm contact: 540-885-3590

 

3.      United Buying Clubs http://www.unitedbuyingclubs.com/ - Warehouse-based distribution system provides natural and organic foods in bulk & packaged at wholesale prices. Hungry Mothers is a Purcellville-based buying club ordering from the United catalog and receiving deliveries monthly.  Local contact: 540 338-2574

 

4.      United Buying Clubs http://www.unitedbuyingclubs.com/ - Warehouse-based distribution system provides natural and organic foods in bulk & packaged at wholesale prices. Herdon-based buying club ordering from the United catalog and receiving deliveries monthly. Local contact: Lee Ann Lovgren lalovgren@msn.com

 

5.      Zooks Organics http://home.comcast.net/~farmorders/farmorders.html Grass-fed organic animal products (beef, chickens and eggs, dairy, cheeses) and seasonal produce from Christiana, PA. Leesburg delivery every 2 weeks. Farm contact: Hillary Little at 443-912-4688, farmorders@farmorders.com.

 

6.    Garden Mountain Farm http://www.gardenmountain.com/ - a diversified family farm offering pasture raised, grass finished, hormone and antibiotic free poultry and eggs, lamb, pork and beef from Burke's Garden VA.  Hamilton delivery approx 4x/year. Farm contact: 276-472-2511 rhubbard@gardenmountain.com

 

Books/Resources

            * = Available at Loudoun public library

1.      * The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) by Michael Pollan

2.      * Real Food: What to Eat and Why (2006) by Nina Planck

3.      * Grub: Healthy Local Sustainable Food for All (2006) by Anna Lappe, Bryant Terry

4.      * The Ethical Gourmet (2006) by Jay Weinstein

5.      Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth (1998) by John Robbins

6.      * The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World by John Robbins (2001)

7.      * Fast Food Nation (2001) by Eric Schlosser

8.      Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (2002) by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe

9.      * Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (1999) by Sally Fallon

10.  The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (2006) by Peter Singer Jim Mason

11.  Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew (2006) by Samuel Fromartz

12.  * What to Eat (2006) by Marion Nestle

13.  * Appetite for Profit: How the food industry undermines our health and how to fight back by Michele Simon

14.  Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It (2005)

14.by Michael Ableman

15.  Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case For The Independent Farm And Against Industrial Food (2005) by George Pyle

16.  Sustainable Table website: http://www.sustainabletable.org/

17.  * video: Fast Food Nation:  The Truth is Hard to Swallow (R) Richard Linklater

18  * video: King Corn  http://www.kingcorn.net/ (not rated) Director Aaron Wolf

19.  * video: The Future of Food (not rated) by Deborah Koons

20.  * video: Super Size Me (PG) by Morgan Spurlock, John Banzhaf

21.  video: The Mouth Revolution:  http://www.mouthrevolution.com/ by Louis Fox

 

Restaurants

1.  The Restaurant at Patowmack Farm 42461 Lovettsville Road, Lovettsville, VA

             (540) 822-9017 Patowmackfarm@megapipe.net

2.      Mom's Apple Pie 220 Loudoun Street SE Leesburg, VA 20176  703-771-8590

3.      Tuscarora Mill 203 Harrison Street, Leesburg, Virginia 20175  703-771-9300

4.      Lightfoot Restaurant 11 North King St, Leesburg VA 20176 703 771 2233

5.      Grandale Farms 14001 Harpers Ferry Rd Purcellville, VA 20132  540 668-6000

6.      Magnolia's At the Mill  198 North 21^st Street, Purcellville, Virginia 20132 540.338.9800

7.      Ashby Inn 692 Federal Street, Paris, Virginia 20130  540.592.3900 866.336.0099

celebrate@ashbyinnparis.com

8.      Market Salamander, 200 W Washington St, Middleburg VA 540 687-8011

9.      Hunter's Head Tavern 9048 John Mosby Highway (Rt. 50), Upperville Virginia 540.592.9020

10.     American Flatbread 43170 Wynridge Dr. (Suite #110) at The Broadlands Marketplace Ashburn, Virginia (703) 723-7003

 

Community Resources

Weston Price Foundationhttp://www.westonaprice.org/ - “for wise traditions in food, farming and the healing arts; local representatives can help you find locally-grown organic and biodynamic vegetables, fruits and grains; and milk products, butter, eggs, chicken and meat from pasture-fed animals:

     Leesburg: Dr. Peter Hilgartner & Dr. Lolin Hilgartner (703) 777-8891

     Ashburn: Susan Clark, DC (703) 858-3575, susan@back-n-action.com

     Purcellville:  Valerie Cury Joyner (540) 338-9702, fotoner2@aol.com

 

Loudoun Locavores - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Loudoun_Locavores/ - The Locavore movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers markets or even to produce their own food, with the argument that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. This email network helps to inform, educate and promote local sources here in Loudoun. Subscribe here, from the website or contact VAfoodscaper@gmail.com for more information.

 

Sustainable Loudoun/LCCSßhttp://www.sustainableloudoun.org - promotes the development of a local community economy based on environmental stewardship and the sustainable use of resources. Contact Tony Noerpel anoerpel@loudounwireless.com (540) 882-3289.

 

Ida Lee Community Garden - http://www.idalee.org/parks/gardenplots/  - The Town of Leesburg maintains 70 (seventy) 20 x 20 garden plots, tilled and staked and ready for planting on April 1st (weather permitting).  Garden plot registration is on a first-come, first-served basis and limited to one plot per household.  There'sa waiting list each year. Fee: $40.00 per plot.  703-737-7146.

 

Round Hill Community Garden - http://www.roundhillgarden.org - Community Organizers in Round Hill are working to initiate a garden with 20'x20' and 20x10'garden plots, tilled and staked and ready for seasonal planting .  For garden plot registration or to assist in supporting the venture, please contact RHCG@rebaf.com.

 

Loudoun Allergy Network - http://www.loudounallergynetwork.org/ - promoting healthier living strategies for children and families managing food allergies in Loudoun County, VA. Online support and monthly meetings. info_lan@yahoo.com.

 

 

"Few people believe that a sustainable future will be secured exclusively by individual consumer action or lifestyle change.Yet these early adapters inspire and motivate others through new approaches to living and consuming." Joel Makower and Deborah Fleischer

 

compiled 4/07 by Gina Faber and Grady O'Rear for LCCSS and UUCL; last update: 05/09; printed on recycled paper