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Shenandoah County Agriculture and Farm Guide Shenandoah County Agriculture and Farm Guide For updates and more, see ShenandoahGrown.com www.ShenandoahForum.org Message from Shenandoah Forum … May 2016 Ranking ffh in Virginia in agricultural producton, our farming industry is the backbone of Shenandoah County’s economy and is closely ted to the success of other economic sectors within the county, such as tourism. Established in 2001 as a non-proft volunteer organizaton, Shenandoah Forum’s mission is to promote adherence to the Shenandoah County Comprehensive Plan, ensuring that Shenandoah County retains its rural, agricultural and historic character, supports a healthy environment, promotes a sustainable economy and provides a high quality of life. As a prime focus since 2010, Shenandoah Forum has sought to create a more vibrant agricultural community - a vital step to securing our agricultural heritage, conserving our natural resources and building a stronger future for our county. The Shenandoah County Agriculture and Farm Guide showcases the county’s rich farming heritage and provides a comprehensive guide to locally produced products available in Shenandoah County. We hope through the guide to increase both awareness and the availability of local farm products, and encourage more value-added actvites for our citzens and visitors to enjoy. Find the latest listngs and updates at ShenandoahGrown.com Shenandoah County Agriculture Formed in 1772, Shenandoah County is located in northwestern Virginia, between the Allegheny and Massanuten Mountains, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley. Shenandoah County enjoys abundant natural resources, including prime agricultural soils, productve forests, wildlife and the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. The county’s frst European immigrant setlers, with names like Hite, Bowman, Stover, Miller, Dellinger, and Fink, arrived in the early 1730’s, having relocated from southern Pennsylvania. With its fertle limestone river botom soils and abundant, cool freshwater from the numerous springs and creeks, these early setlers found Shenandoah County hospitable to the agricultural skills and practces of their German roots. Farming practces and productvity increased steadily. By the outbreak of the Civil War the Shenandoah Valley become known as “The Granary of the Confederacy”, supplying most of the food for the Confederate soldiers and their horses. The Valley’s agricultural support to the Confederacy was so important the Union ordered General Phillip Sheridan to destroy and dismantle farming operatons in the Valley. Known as “The Burning,” the destructon of crops, livestock and barns in Shenandoah was executed from September to October 1864. During that tme Sheridan claimed to have slaughtered thousands of sheep, hogs, and catle and burned to ashes “2,000 barns flled with wheat, hay, and farming implements [and] over seventy mills flled with four and wheat.” It took years for the agricultural sector of the Valley to recover. Today, Shenandoah County is the ffh largest agricultural producer in Virginia, boastng natonal and state award winning middle and high school agricultural science teachers, actve FFA chapters, 4H clubs, and more recently, award-winning wineries. Shenandoah County Farm Guide 1. All Things Virginia 5. Greg Bowman @ The Farmhouse Contact: Greg Bowman Contact: Vicki Ruckman Location: 226 Old Schoolhouse Drive, Location: 125 N Main St, Woodstock Maurertown Phone: 540-459-9006 Phone: 540-975-2033 Email: [email protected] Website: allthingsva.com Hay; Sells on-site, Delivery available Local grocery/retailer Horse hay - round & square bales. The idea for the store grew from the 6. Cannon Hill Farm frustration of trying to fnd various VA- made items for holiday gift baskets that Contact: Gary Lantz had a Virginia theme in one place. We Location: 224 Cannon Hill Road, strongly believe in supporting the local Mt Jackson economy, especially when the products Phone: 540-333-0976 are so delicious and healthy! And with Email: [email protected] “All Things Virginia” in our name, we Meat: Beef; Grain; Hay; Sells on-site look frst to producers and suppliers in by appt. only, wholesale Shenandoah County and our bountiful Cannon Hill Farm is a closed Certifed commonwealth. There isn’t much we have Organic, Certifed Humane beef to import from other states! farming operation. Non-GMO crops. No antibiotics, herbicides, pesticides or 2. Alpine Tree Farm growth-enhancing hormones are used. Contact: Jay Zuspan All feed needed to sustain the complete Location: 6486 Smith Creek Road, beef operation is produced on the farm. New Market Cannon Hill Farm is on VA's short Phone: 540-325-6608 list of farms that control its animals Email: [email protected] from conception to consumption. The Christmas trees and seasonal greenery; Heritage breed, Belted Galloway, is Sells on-site our specialty beef. It is fne-grained and well-marbled which ensures a Our choose and cut Christmas tree farm tenderness and favor that consumers is open the Friday after Thanksgiving expect in high quality beef. to Christmas eve from daylight to dark. White pine, scotch pine, norway spruce 7. Cave Ridge Vineyard and colorado blue spruce trees available. Contact: Randy Phillips 3. Baker Farms Location: 1476 Conicville Rd, Mt Jackson Contact: Steve Baker Phone: 540-477-2585 Location: 1341 Conicville Rd, Email: [email protected] Mt Jackson Website: caveridge.com Phone: 540-477-3550 Email: [email protected] Wine; Sells on-site, wholesale Meat: Pork; Local grocery/retailer; Cave Ridge Vineyard is a family-owned, Sells on-site estate-grown vineyard and winery located in the foothills overlooking In 2015, we opened a USDA inspected the Shenandoah Valley. The tasting processing facility on-site including room was opened by owners Randy a smokehouse for hams, sausage and and Karen Phillips in 2005 and their bacon. We specialize in all cuts of pork estate-grown VA wines soon had a loyal including chops, ribs, roasts, bacon and following. Their daughter, Megan, later sausages. I have been raising hogs for joined as the business manager. over 40 years. We farm two Virginia Century Farms that have been in 8. Cedar Creek Winery, LLC continuous operation for over 100 years. (One farm is from my mother’s family Contact: Ron Schmidt and the other from my father’s family.) Location: 7384 Zepp Road, Star Tannery Check our Facebook for new store hours. Phone: 540-436-8394 Email: [email protected] 4. Bowman Livestock Inc and Website: cedarcreekvineyard.com Blessed Acres Farm Wine; Sells on-site, by mail order, Contact: Daryl & Tara Bowman online, wholesale Location: 2828 Fairview Road, Specializing in estate bottled Cabernet Woodstock Franc & Chardonnay wines. Wines Phone: 540-459-8255/540-325-8255 produced on-site from grapes grown on Email: [email protected] our vineyard in Shenandoah County. Website: darylbowmanlivestock.com Livestock; Sells on-farm 9. Cedar Hill Gardens aka Gabalot Gardens Daryl Bowman Livestock Inc. is a cattle/ livestock buyer and seller, serving the Contact: Janet Heishman agricultural community for the past 20 Location: 373 Green Acre Dr, Strasburg years. To help with efciency for the Phone: 540-465-3246 local farmer and their livestock herd, Email: [email protected] Daryl Bowman Livestock can purchase Website: gabalotgardens.com and transport all livestock in Shenandoah Greenhouse County, surrounding counties, as far Specializing in vegetable and edible west as Kansas, north as New York, and plants. We have the largest selection of south as Georgia. Blessed Acres Farm tomato plants in the area with over 100 backgrounds feeder cattle, raises corn varieties. We also ofer a selection of and hay for its own cattle consumption. seeds, roots, fruiting plants, brambles, berries, herbs and fowers. 10. Cerdonia Farm VA @ The Farmhouse in Woodstock Contact: Crissy Willis and delivery service to Northern VA Location: 219 W King Street, Strasburg Country Rhodes Farm makes buying local Phone: 540-465-2311 easy, and we raise what we sell: hormone Email: [email protected] free, grain fed Pork and Beef. Our meat is Website: cerdoniafarm.com used to make the delicious award winning Meat: Pork; Sells on-site and at sausages sold by Swover Creek Farms and Cristina’s Café Kitchen in Edinburg, Virginia. We also make and sell all natural, no additives The name Cerdonia Farm is a synthesis of or preservatives, VA state licensed and our Mexican heritage using the Spanish registered Doggy Meat Treats. word cerdo (pig) to denote the love afair we have with the very porcine creatures 15. Cristina’s Café that led us to the path of sustainability years ago. We started out as a small hobby Contact: Crissy Willis farm on 1 acre of land with the initial Location: 219 West King St. Strasburg goal of cultivating relationships between Phone: 540-465-2311 swine, the earth and the patrons of our Email: [email protected] restaurant, Cristina’s Café. On our new Website: cristinascafe.net 26 acre tract of land we are continuing Local restaurant the model of rotating heritage breed pigs Cristina’s Cafe is a Virginia Green and chickens from pasture to forest, while Restaurant, featuring local ingredi- planting cover crops and usable produce ents. Live entertainment on weekend and items for sale at Cristina’s Café. outdoor seating available. Also known as the “goddess cafe,” they are the ladies 11. Champion U-Pick that bring you the best cofee in the valley, Strawberries local food, music and fun! Support a local Contact: Cindy Champion business that is third generation family Location: 100 Bindery Rd, New Market owned. Owner Crissy is also selling pork Phone: 540-975-0791 products from her farm, Cerdonia Farm, Email: [email protected] www.cerdoniafarm.com. Mon 8am-3pm; Tues&Wed: CLOSED; Thurs 8am-3pm; Fruit and fruit products; Sells on-site Fri 8am-11pm (6-9pm Dinner); Sat 8am- Sweet delicious strawberries are 11pm (6-9pm Dinner); Sun 8am-10pm. easy pickings at our patch! Three acres of Chandler and Sweet Charlie 16.
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