Vendor Directory
A Bowl of Good Website
Contact: Katrina Didot
Phone: (540) 435-2674
Email: abowlofgood@gmail.com
Products: Soups,stews,baked goods and hummus.
Availability: Saturdays at the Market with additional locations locally and regionally. Please check our website for all locations.
About Us: We make "healthy hearty food with an international zing." It is our intent to provide convenient and easy, as well as healthful and delicious, foods for our customers. I collaborate with local farmers to use local ingredients whenever possible.
Apple Hill Farm Address: Mt.Clinton Area
Products: Flowers, jams, raspberries, gooseberries occasional baked goods.
Availability: Seasonal
About Us: Garden flowers enhance our wild boquets. Our jams are made from homegrown fruits.
Farming practices and philosophy: Enviromentally friendly with minimal and limited use of chemicals, only if all else fails.
Avalon Farm Contact: Lorinda Palin and Solly Walker
Address: 13433 Shepherd Lane Braodway, VA 22815
Phone: 540-896-1283
Email: avalonfarm@earthlink.net
Products: salad mix, greens, seasonal produce, eggs, floral bouquets, and a variety of herbal teas, rubs, and tinctures.
Availability: Saturday markets, April through November, special order lamb Nov- Jan , eggs and herbal tinctures by request year round
About Us: Farming is a lifestyle choice and more than full time for Lorinda. In addition to working on the farm, Solly continues his 28-year massage practice making home visits for people in painful muscular predicaments. How one removes headaches, back pain, or restricted motions with massage is a lot like working the land. Just feel for imbalanced pulling by muscles and gently hold them back into normal relationship while the person operates the muscles a few times to restore the non-painful memory to the motion. So too, we look for imbalances in the farm, animals, plants, or soil and use gentle natural means to hold the right balance long enough for growth itself to re establish harmony.
Farming practices and philosophy: For 15 years Avalon has been lovingly tended using nature’s own processes to revitalize the soil – composted plant matter and manures, mulching, natural soil supplements, plant rotation, companion planting and cover crops. No chemical fertilizers or insecticides are used.
Our lambs are pasture-raised. We don’t rush their growth, use herbal/natural wormers, and take them directly to a meat processor on the morning they are butchered for a minimum of stress. Stress can put distasteful hormones into the meat. Sheep are an integral part of our farm as ecological mowers and fertilizers. We keep just enough sheep to be in balance with the rotated pasture.
Chickens are part of the overall plan also. They get all the weedings and kitchen scraps, insect pests hand-picked from the gardens, plus all they can gather when free-ranging the pasture in the afternoons. The poultry also have organic grain feed available with herbs and kelp added to winter rations. They produce bright-yoked eggs.
Bringing health to the soil and water, contentment to the animals and birds who share our lives, vitality to our food, freedom from pain for our bodies, and joy for our spirits – it is all part of Avalon dreams becoming reality.
Cause for Creation
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Contact: Charlynn Turner
Phone: 540-433-3846
Email: cause4creation@yahoo.com
Products: Handmade paper cards and original art
About Us: I offer unique handmade cards and original handmade art prints. The handmade paper is made with renewable plant materials from our farm, combined with recycled paper and cotton linter. Plant materials include alfalfa, straw, mixed grasses, corn husks, and various kinds of flower petals. I blend the pulp in small batches and hand process each sheet of paper by the centuries old method using a wooden mold and deckle with a wooden hand press. I create handmade art prints by drawing and then hand carving into a printing plate. Watercolors or inks are applied to each plate which is then hand printed with a baren or a small hand press. You will see that my favorite art subjects are animals, nature scenes, and symbolic designs from various cultures. I love making paper from scratch-being able to make use of renewable resources, in addition to recycling, is very gratifying. I also enjoy participating in charity fund raising efforts with my cards and art.
Charis Eco-Farm
Contact: Sue & Guy Freesen
Address: 3081 Shutterlee Mill Road, Staunton
Phone: (540) 886-8486
Email: Charisfarm@yahoo.com
Products: Poultry, Beef, Pork, Lamb, Eggs, limited Produce, Quiche, Granola, Cookies, Fruit Smoothies, Lamb Skins.
Availability: throughout the year at the farm and the duration of the market.
About Us: Charis is the greek word for grace/gift. We believe our farm is a gift to us from God and we are being good stewards of the land by raising our stock and flocks naturally on pasture.
Farming practices and philosophy: We practice sustainable agriculture and humanely raise and care for our animals. We do not use growth hormones or synthetics in the feed. Our pastures and hay for winter feed are not sprayed. The sausage is msg free and the grain fed to pigs and poultry is gm-free.
Cosmic Earth Website
Contact: Krista Wilson Muldoon
Address: McGaheysville, VA
Email: kristashine@hotmail.com
Products: Handmade one of a kind clothing, professional hand worked tie-dyes for babies, children and adults, hand dyed and decorated tote bags and aprons, home baked dog cookies made from all organic, human grade ingredients, handmade dog and cat toys and items.
Availability: Most Saturdays
About Us: 15 years of experience shows in our well designed and constructed clothing. All items are securely stitched and surged so they are built to last. All of our clothing is washer dryer safe and requires no special care. Many of our items include stitched in art and designs as well as hand prepared appliqués adding to the originality of the item. I love fiber art and working with dyes. Many of the items we sell are constructed from fabric I dyed by hand. These fabrics as well as our tie dyes are prepared by hand using professional processes, dyes and chemicals. The process involves many steps and lots of hard work to guarantee the best possible outcome.
Our dog treats, ‘Cosmic Cookies’, are hand prepared in our home using an extensive list of all organic human grade ingredients. They are safe and healthy for human consumption although they are designed for the K9 palate
Double O Farm Contact: Candy and Phil Olsen
Address: 323 South McDaniel Lane, Shenandoah VA 22849
Phone: 540-652-6008
Email: candysorchard @yahoo.com
Products: Strawberries, Blackberries, Peaches, Nectarines, Apples, Plums, Pears, Sweet Potatoes, Vegetables, Pumpkins and Fall Mums.
Availability: May through October
About Us: We began planting our orchard in 2005. Our fruits include over 30 varieties of both peaches and apples, 10 varieties of plums and pears, strawberries, blackberries and blueberries. 2008 will be our first season to crop our fruits. We hope to become full time farmers by 2009 and provide our community with high quality local fruit.
Farming practices and philosophy: We use the integrated pest management program for our spray guide,using the lowest rate possible and extending the pre-harvest interval when we can. Leaf and soil analysis are used to determine fertilizer needs, using natural fertilizer products whenever possible. Our dogs are keeping the deer, groundhogs and rabbits under control. We hope to teach them to run the crow from the orchard as they are our most damaging pest. We hope to see you at the Market.
Elk Run Farm Contact: Jim & Susan Randall
Address: Fort Defiance,VA
Email: elkrunfarm@gmail.com
Products: Vegetables from asparagus to zucchini, herb,perennial and garden plants and goat meat.
Availability: Plants and produce available in season at the Tuesday Market. Goat meat is available year round at the farm.
About Us: We are veteran small scale growers. We do the whole job from planting to harvest to delivering our produce to you ourselves.
Farming practices and philosophy: We grow organically, though we are not certified. We are dedicated to bringing you the freshest produce available.
Esther Ebey Contact: Esther Ebey
Address: 6073 Rawley Pike, Hinton, VA 22831
Email: eebey@comcast.net
Products: Crafts, plants, garden produce, chestnuts (October), and holly (November till Christmas)
Availability: Most every Tuesday and Saturday from the end of April through the end of the market season.
Farming practices and philosophy: I am a hobby gardener. I grow fresh produce for my own table and sell my surplus at the market. I don’t use pesticides so my produce is always “no spray”. I compost from non-animal food scraps, and yard debris such as fall leaves and fertilize lightly.
Gatherings
Contact: Sherri & Tom Huffer
Address: Mount Sidney, VA
Phone: 540-248-6904
Email: shuffer@cfw.com
Products: Rabbit meat, specialty vegetables in season, such as baby French filet beans, baby squash, Mexican sour gherkins cucumbers and heirloom tomatoes. Handspun angora yarn, angora/sheep wool blended yarns, angora fiber, finished items made from the yarns, such as hats, scarves, baby booties and scrunchies. Novelty fiber products: rabbit foot key chains, quilted angora cards, felt balls, rabbit tail cat toys, Christmas ornaments.
Availability: Rabbit meat and fiber products are available at the Saturday market and year round by phoning us. Vegetables available in season at the Saturday farmers market.
About Us: We are a very small 2 person homestead raising specialty vegetables and meat and fiber products from our growing herd of Angora and New Zealand rabbits.
Farming practices and philosophy: We raise our vegetables without pesticides and our rabbits without antibiotics.
Glen Eco Farm Website
Contact: Marlin Burkholder
Address: Singers Glen
Phone: 833-8802
Email: glenecofarm@planetcom.net
Products: Vegetables, berries, pasture produced eggs.
Availability: HFM-Saturday April-November On Farm-year round if available.
About Us: Family operated farm committed to sustainable agriculture principles and local marketing. Member of Virginia Association of Biological Farmers. Community Supported Agriculture shares available by signup in late winter.
Farming practices and philosophy: 1) Minimal use of toxic chemicals for pest control, 2) Use of animal manures, compost, organic mulches, and plowed down cover crops as primary means to maintain soil fertility. 3) Limited use of purchased organic and chemical fertilizers for starting plants, transplanting, and side dressing field crops, 4) Strip cropping and contour tillage to conserve water and to prevent soil erosion, 5) Crop rotation to control pests and plant diseases, 6) Mechanical cultivation, hand weeding, flaming, and use of plastic and organic mulches to control weeds, 7) Livestock and poultry kept on clean pasture.
Good Earth Gardens Contact: Nate Clark
Email: clarkn7@gmail.com
Products: Honey,vegetables,apples and herbs
Availability: Seasonal
About Us: A beginning Market grower with a passion for local, sustainable food economics. Currently growing vegetables and managing the orchard at Apple Hill Farm.
Farming practices and philosophy: This Good Earth and land give us the food we eat and the air we breathe. We are committed to treating the Earth with respect and care, for our sake and for future generations. The farming practices of Good Earth Gardens attempt to include only ecologically friendly and sustainable practices. Seeds are purchased only from organically certified or sustainable seed saver collections. Many heritage and heirloom vegetable varieties are grown. Ever continuing research is being done to identify the most effective and sustainable growing methods.
Green Haven Farm Cheeses Contact: Pam Green
Address: 3456 St. Luke Rd. Woodstock, VA 22664
Phone: (540) 459-3783
Email: ghfarm@shentel.net
Products: Farm fresh goat cheeses: Feta, Soft Cheeses (Chives & Garlic, Western Ranch, Southern Ranch, & Plain) plus Cheddar & Jalapeno Cheddar style Hard Cheeses.
Availability: Our cheeses are mainly available during “market season”, which is April through October at the Harrisonburg Farmers Market. We will accept special orders for the soft cheeses during the winter months. Our soft cheeses are also available at The Market in Woodstock and North Mountain Vineyard year round.
About Us: We are located in the “Heart of the Shenandoah Valley” where we raise our purebred Nubian “girls”, which are very spoiled. Our babies are bottle raised so they make great pets. Our “girls” are milked twice a day and are fed orchard grass/alfalfa hay and grain feed which we mix ourselves. Our cheeses are all natural with no preservatives being used. We are licensed and permitted by the Department of Agriculture.
Besides the goats, we also raise purebred Black Angus cattle that Loren and Mary enjoy showing at local, state, and regional beef shows. We have also added two young Llamas to our family this winter which we greatly enjoy!
Farming practices and philosophy: We are a simple farm and try to be as conservative as possible. We have a love for our animals and our land and treat both with great respect. Our farm is a “family affair” with all four of us sharing in the responsibilities.
Hickory Hill Farm
Contact: Samuel & Margaret Johnson
Address: Keezletown, VA
Products: Fresh Blueberries
Availability: Seasonal (June and July)
Farming practices and philosophy: Fresh blueberries with no spray on fruit!
Jan Carter Designs Contact: Jan Carter
Address: 703 College View Drive
Phone: 540 828 3646
Email: jancarter2000@yahoo.com
Products: Handcrafted Jewelry
Availability: Harrisonburg Farmers Market, occasional home shows and special orders
About Us: Jan Carter Designs specializes in hand-crafted necklaces,earrings and bracelets made from semi-precious stones. Jan designs and makes all items. She uses many rough stones and incorporates beads, pendants and other unique items from all over the world. Examples include handmade brass beads, bone and horn beads from Africa, inlaid beads from Napal,Tibetan and Chinese beads. Turquoises used include browns,yellows and blues as well as purple turquoise from Peru, white turquoise from China and green turquoise from Africa. Jan has a knack for choosing unusual stones and beautifully incorporating multicultural items into stunning one of a kind pieces of jewelry. It is not unusual for one of her pieces to include materials from five or more different nationalities. All clasps and findings are either sterling silver or copper. Special orders are welcomed and prices begin at $20.00.
Jennercraft LLC at Checkertree Farm
Website
Contact: Janette Brunk
Address: 158 Wayside Drive, Weyers Cave,
Phone: 540 421 5053
Email: brunk2jl@jmu.edu
Products: Foods: Quiches made with our own free range eggs, soups, cakes etc. Folkcrafts: Lumberjacks, topsy-turvey dolls, carved gourds, birdhouses and jewelry.
Availability: At the Market. Special orders welcomed and event catering available.
About Us: Mini farming of angora rabbits and hedgehogs. Have lived in and loved the Valley almost my whole life.
Farming practices and philosophy: Simple and small. Natural free range, no spray.
Joe's Sauage Contact: Joe Pehan
Phone: 540-886-3632
Products: German Bratwurst
Availability: Full Season, Tuesdays only
About Us: Our bratwursts are made fresh from an old family recipe. We sell it cooked and ready to eat or fresh frozen to take home and enjoy.
Nature's Homestead
Contact: Clarence Dellinger
Address: 3924 Rainbow Trail, Keezletown, VA 22832
Phone: 269-2612
Products: Many types of garden vegetables, strawberries and raspberries.
Availability: Seasonal at the Market
About Us: I have growing and selling chemical free vegetables and fruits since the late 50's. I believe in treating the land with great care and respect.
Farming practices and philosophy: I farm the old-fashioned way as did my father and grandfather. I do not use pesticides, herbicides, nitrates or any other chemicals. My family has been on this farm since 1849 so we can guarantee that the land has been chemical free since then.
North Mountain Produce Contact: Philip Hege
Products: Beans, beets, cucumbers, salad greens, potatoes, summer and winter squash, etc
Oasis Gallery
Website
Contact: Judith Ligon,co-op Member
Address: 103 South Main Street,Harrisonburg
Phone: 540-442-8188
Email: ligonart@hotmail.com
Products: Fine arts and crafts by local artists. Mediums include pottery, woodwork, painting, jewelry, sculpture, linocuts, collage,photography, soaps, woven and painted clothing items, baskets and cards.
Availability: Tuesdays and Saturdays as artists schedules allow.
About Us: OASIS, "Our space in Shenandoah",is a co-op gallery of local and regional artists. Our mission statement is to support local artists, children, schools, teachers, musicians, authors and community programs. Various classes taught co-op members are offered and we participate in many local community events. For images please visit our website. We appreciate this opportunity to partner with the Harrisonburg Farmers Market.
Peaceful Valley Farm Contact: Ric Gullman
Address: Singers Glen
Products: Asparagus, beans, blueberries, cauliflower, cucumbers, eggs, lettuce, peas, peppers, potatoes, radishes, squash, strawberries, tomatoes
Farming practices and philosophy: Peaceful Valley Farm is a small, family farm specializing in fresh fruits and vegetables that are grown in an environmentally friendly way. The majority of our field work is done by hand labor and a team of mules. We utilize natural fertilizers, insecticides approved for organic growers and insect barriers whenever possible.
Portwood Gardens and Bakery Contact: Marlan or Miriam Showalter
Phone: 540-try herb (879-4372)
Email: portwoodgardens@gmail.com
Products: Baked goods and breads. Our breads are made with fresh-ground, chemical-free, LOCALLY-GROWN WHEAT! Herbs, cut-flowers, and greenhouse veggies including lettuce tomatoes and cucumbers.
Availability: Baked goods-year round. Other products-as our off-season greenhouse production allows.
About Us: We are a small-acreage farm, grateful for God's many blessings in our life--our focus includes greenhouse production and specialty outdoor crops.
Farming practices and philosophy: Our goal is to produce sustainable products for a local/regional clientèle. As we work together with our customers and other local farmers, it is our hope that this goal will become more and more of a reality. At times it seems our farm is more of a research and development firm than an actual farm, as we try new and non-conventional farming practices and explore local energy-source solutions for our greenhouses.
Radical Roots Community Farm
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Contact: Dave & Lee O’Neill
Address: Keezletown, Va
Phone: 540-810-2587
Email: leesturgis@yahoo.com
Products: Ecologically grown vegetables, including mesclun salad mix, heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, peppers, fresh herbs and spring plants
Availability: April through October
About Us: Radical Roots Community Farm is catalyzing positive change by growing high quality ecologically grown vegetables, educating about sustainable agriculture and living this example. Customers can receive our produce through the local farmer’s market and through our community supported agriculture program, which runs from June through October.
Farming practices and philosophy: Ecologically grown is a way of gardening that is modeled on the forest ecosystem. At Radical Roots Farm we fertilize with compost, use cover cropping and integrate animals and tree crops with our vegetable rotations. We never use pesticides or herbicides and have planted over 500 trees and shrubs to provide habitat and attract beneficial insects.
Sage Advice Contact: Phil Hearne
Address: 979 Arkton Road, Broadway (Tenth Legion)
Phone: 540 421 2981
Email: smithcreek102@yahoo.com
Products: Herbs & selected perennials: basil (5 varieties), dill, oregano, marjoram, lavender, mint (3 varieties), parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme, stevia. Rue, Hosta, day lilies and Lewisia.
Availability: April through October at the Farmers Market or by special order.
About Us: Small homegrown operation. All plants are grown on site. Orders are taken and delivery is available.
Farming practices and philosophy: No poisons or artificial pest controls are used in the growth or cultivation of my plants raised at Sage Advice.
Season's Bounty Farm & CSA Contact: Radell Schrock
Phone: 540.908.5399
Email: radellschrock@yahoo.com
Products: A wide variety of vegetables including unusual tomatoes, colorful peppers, fresh greens, new red potatoes, lots of melons, green beans, and fall ornamentals.
Availability: Middle of May through the end of September.
Farming practices and philosophy: All my vegetables and melons are sustainably grown without any pesticides or other sprays. The farm is located only 2 miles north of Harrisonburg.
Sherry Richardi
Contact: Sherry Richardi
Address: 325 East Wolfe Street
Phone: 540 442 6825
Products: Perennials, wreaths, plaques and dream catchers. Occasional assorted houseplants.
Availability: Market Season. Crafts are also available by appointment when the Market is closed.
About Us: Valley Landscaping is my Monday through Friday business name. At the Market,I'm simply a vendor who enjoys the camaraderie.
Staff of Life Baking Company
Website
Contact: Abbey
Address: Broadway, Virginia
Email: Abbey@staffoflifebread.com
Products: We offer several types of bread, as well as yeasted sweet rolls on a rotational basis each Tuesday and Saturday.
About Us: Staff of Life Baking Company was started with one kitchen oven and a thirty-year-old Kitchenaid mixer in the spring of 2006. We sold our first breads at the Broadway Farmers Market in the summer of 2006. During the winter of 2006-07, we continued to work at the craft of artisan breads. We expanded to four ovens, which we keep humming on baking days. The Spring of 2007 saw us move to the Harrisonburg Farmers Market.
Farming practices and philosophy: We are a home-based business in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Our mission is to make available to the people of Rockingham County and surrounding areas, the most wholesome, flavorful, and heartiest artisan breads at an affordable price.
Stoney Lick Veggies Contact: Calvin Baker
Address: 6648 Stoney Lick Rd. Mt.Crawford, VA 22841
Products: Seasonal vegtables,plants and flowers.
Wildwood Gardens Website
Contact: Rich McDonough
Address: Keezletown, VA
Email: doveofonelove@aol.com
Products: Crafts, Produce, Plants, Honey, Bee Pollen
Farming practices and philosophy: Certified Naturally Grown
Willow Spring Farm Contact: Mary Jo Swartzendruber
Address: Harrisonburg, VA
Phone: 540-908-5819
Email: maryjoswartz@yahoo.com
Products: Fresh Cut Flowers: Locally-grown & Chemical-free. Handmade photo cards: Flowers grown & photographed by Mary Jo.
Availability: Colorful bouquets, bunches, and single stems available mid-May through mid-October.
Woods Edge Nursery
Contact: Elaine and Stacey Nolt
Address: 8050 Frank Lane, Singers Glen, VA 22850
Phone: 540-820-6494
Email: ehn101307@yahoo.com
Products: Perennials, flowering shrubs, lilacs, roses, spirea, clematis, hydrangea etc. Boxwood, service berry, redbuds and other trees. Flower bouquets, blackberries and raspberries.
Availability: Trees and Plants: March through October. Berries: July into September, as in season.
About Us: We are a mother and daughter team committed to sustainable horticulture. We regularly attend related workshops and classes to expand our knowledge and improve our growing methods.
Farming practices and philosophy: We stay with plants that are native to our region or are acclimated to our Region 6 area. We do not use chemicals for insect control or fertilization. We concentrate on alternative fertilizers and integrated pest management. We use collected rainwater for irrigation.