A local family owned and operated butcher shop is a great place to shop for the meat products your family needs.  Although butcher shops may seem a thing of the past, with a little research you could probably find one in your region.  If you live near Front Royal, Virginia, Two Fat Butchers is a fantastic source for a variety of all natural and specialty meats from local food systems.

The mission at Two Fat Butchers is simple; provide locavore customers with the finest quality meat products at...

The best part of shopping a market is watching the colors and foods change with the season.  As things grow and harvest, they arrive at the market, straight off the farm, fresh for your family.  What an amazing way and healthy way to eat, one that you often miss out on if you only shop standard supermarkets.  Farmers markets and produce stands aren’t hard to find, chances are you have many different options right in your own region.  These are the venues where you can find the delicious and...

Sunny Vale Farm  in Amelia, Virginia is a beautiful 60 acre site with sweeping pastures and amazing views.  Well known in the community for their horse riding, lessons and boarding, you wouldn’t guess that Sunny Vale also has premium Black Angus Beef that they supply to local food systems.  Available throughout the year, the healthy, lean beef from Sunny Vale is a great selection for Virginia locavore families.

The all natural grass fed beef raised on Sunny Vale Farm is great tasting and packed...

How do you usually spend your Saturday’s?  Inside sitting around or outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine?  Keeping kids busy can get challenge during the winter months but in when the weather is nice, outdoor activities are bountiful.  It’s probably part of your routine to visit the park, playground, swimming pool or zoo during the spring and summer; but have you ever considered an outdoor market?  Shopping a farmers market can be a great way to get kids outside for some fresh air and...

The Staunton/Augusta Farmers’ Market has an important message, “Know your farmer, know your food”.  If you shop their market, or any other market in the region, you have the benefit of buying fresh, local food directly from the people who grew, raised or produced it.  The Staunton Market operates on Wednesdays and Saturdays, 7 am to noon during their April through November season.  If you want to know the farmers who grow Virginia’s finest foods, join the locavore movement and shop the market!

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Looking for amazing, fresh produce, honey, natural beef, baked good or other specialty food items in the Moseley region?  If so, shop Skinquarter Farm Market to find a great variety of Virginia Grown products!  The Market operates Monday through Sunday 9 am to 7 pm, during their March through December season.

Skinquarter Market is proud of the products they supply local food systems with.  A terrific venue to find all of Virginia’s finest fare, Skinquarter is the place to do your “farm to table”...

We have all heard someone say “you are what you eat”.  Well, not only is that the truth for us, it’s also the truth for animals.  If the livestock we depend on for food is eating unsafe, chemical laden, unhealthy food, then we can expect much more from their meat product.  You don’t have to settle for this kind of meat, right in your own community you can find farmers producing healthy, safe, natural foods.  One of those great places is Skyline Premium Meats, where their motto is “our cattle eat...

Although our ultimate goal is a small farm, right now our time and energy is wrapped up in farmhouse renovation. Here it is late February already, and we're still gutting the inside of the house, because each time we pull off a layer, we find more rot...meaning more gutting...and replacing. 

So the small farm part of all of this is on hold. Sure, we're still pouring over seed catalog descriptions and giving the orchard a good look to see if we can expect many apples from those old trees in...

Oakland Green  is not only a beautiful bed and breakfast; it’s also a fantastic working farm.  Built in 1740, ten generations of the same family have lived and farmed at Oakland Green.  Today, it’s a well know destination for travelers, weddings, and high-quality grass fed Black Angus beef.

Located in Loudoun County, Virginia, Oakland Green supplies lean, healthy beef to local food systems.  Their steers are born at the farm and then raised on green pastures, clean water and fresh air for the...

Jimmy and Robin Rider, owners of Rider’s Backfield Farm Beef, want you to think of them when you are eating, because they always think of you when they are farming!  Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Rider’s Farm is proud of the high-quality affordable beef they supply to local food systems.  If you are interested in local food or just making healthier choices, shop Riders for healthy meat!

The goal at Rider’s Farmis to provide customers with great tasting beef that was raised...