Featured Local Producers
Seven Hills Food Company Lynchburg, VA (65.9 miles) Seven Hills Food Company is a wholesaler of premium Virginia meat products. By sourcing directly from producers and cooperatives, they take the time to learn about the high quality products that growers entrust them to process, market and sell. Their goal is to maintain that transparency throughout the process, from grower to customer. Seven Hills supplies pastured Virginia family farm raised beef. They have been processing their products in the same local plant for almost a century.
Edwards Virginia Smokehouse Surry, VA (127 miles) Edwards Virginia Smokehouse is a fourth-generation family business that's been a producer and purveyor of dry-cured, hickory smoked hams, bacon, and sausage since 1926. They are based in Surry, Virginia, and now ship their products all over the continental US. Edwards Virginia Smokehouse offers smoked hams, bacon, and sausage. In the late 1800s, the Edwards family cured hams on their Virginia farm to feed their household. Years later, in 1926, S. Wallace Edwards Sr., utilized that knowledge as a ferry boat captain. While ferrying folks along the James River between Surry County and historic Jamestown, he fed ham sandwiches to his hungry passengers. The travelers loved the ham so much; he decided to go into the ham business full-time.
NoBull Burgers Charlottesville, VA (4.5 miles) NoBull is a local Charlottesville company that produces delicious, high-quality vegan burgers. The recipe was originally created by Crissannen Raymond as an alternative way to feed her family burgers. Word spread about the great taste and quality of Crissannen’s recipe, and she decided to open the NoBull business in 2011. The product is plantbased and sustainable, made from lentils and roasted vegetables. You can find NoBull throughout Charlottesville - in UVA Dining halls, and even at Bodo’s Bagels! NoBull Burgers are plant-based veggie burgers made from organic lentils and roasted vegetables. Each veggie burger is handcrafted in small batches.
Scratch Pasta Company Lynchburg, VA 67.9 miles Scratch Pasta Company was founded by Chef Stephanie Frees and is located in Lynchburg, Virginia. Stephanie combined her years of experience as a professional chef in New York City and West Virginia to create a fresh, authentic pasta to share with her hometown. Scratch Pasta Company products are all homemade and inspired by Stephanie’s time in “pasta school” in Chiavari, Italy. These techniques create bold, flavorful pastas with a unique texture to make them combine beautifully with sauces. Scratch Pasta Company offers unique pastas such as spinach fusilli, squid ink campanelle, virginia wheat campanelle, and more! The company uses local ingredients and makes their pasta in small batches.
Falling Bark Farms Berryville, VA (140 miles)
140 miles
Travis and Joyce Miller created Falling Bark Farm in Clarke County, VA as a retirement project. They use bark from the shagbark hickory tree - this tree sheds its bark naturally, meaning there is no harm to the tree during extraction. Their Falling Bark Farm LOCAL INGREDIENTS operation began with 48 bottles of the Original Hickory Syrup at the farmersfarm market, and has grown into an operation is alocalfamily that delivers to homes or local providers. Falling Bark Farm selling Hickory sells Hickory Syrup, honey, and coffee. Hickory Bark contains aSyrup, high amount of magnesium, honey, and which is an essential mineral that offers multiple health benefits.
Hickory Syrup
coffee in Berryville, VA.
First Hand Foods Durham, NC (172 miles)
172 Miles Firsthand Foods is a women-owned food hub that sells local meats from North Carolina farms. The food hub was founded in 2008 by Jennifer XX and Tina XX as a way to transform the meat market into one that values small-scale, local production. They pride themselves on selling humanelyLOCALCarolina INGREDIENTS raised, ethically-sourced meat from North farmers. They believe that business can and should be a tool for creating social and environmental good. Firsthand Foods provides local beef, pork, and lamb products. Firsthand Foods is the recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Business in Sustainability Award from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School's Center for Sustainable Enterprise and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association's 2019 Business of the Year Award.
Firsthand Foods is a women-owned food hub that sells local meats from Durham, North Carolina
Lamb Sausage
Hungry Hill Farm Shipman, VA (39.9 miles)
39.9 miles
Hungry Hill Farm is a family owned honey farm located in Nelson County. The Claytons are dedicated to producing 100% Raw Honey, while supporting pollinators throughout the region. They loan their hives to orchards, berry patches, and farms in Hungry Hill Farm LOCAL INGREDIENTS Central Virginia, and offer instruction to beginning beekeepers. is apractices familyhelp owned These support the bee population, and promote the importance of bees as pollinators. Hungry Hill Farm honey farm proproduces 100% Pure Raw Honey from bee hives on the ducingTo 100% raw property. supplement honey production throughout the year, they also source from other high-quality American beekeepers.
honey in Nelson County.
Molasses Honey
Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative Lancaster, PA (227 miles)
227 miles
Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative is an organic farmer’s cooperative of over 100 small farms providing organic produce and goods from the surrounding community. They were founded in 2007 by a collection of 7 farms, with a goal of supporting local agriculture. They prioritize environmental by using USDA certified organic standards, Lancasterstewardship Farm Fresh LOCAL INGREDIENTS reducing packaging waste, and seeking climate-friendly approaches to Co-op is an organic business. They also work to make their produce accessible by partnering local nonprofit of organizations. Lancaster Farm Fresh farmer’swith cooperative Cooperative provides 470 different varieties of organic fruits and over 100 small farms vegetables, and also sources local dairy, baked goods, and herbal providing proremedies. As aorganic Worker’s Cooperative, farmers make their own decisions LFFC andand also earn the highest duce goods frompossible price for their products.
Lancaster, PA.
Tetra Squash Onions
Caromont Farm Esmont, VA (24.2 miles)
24.2 miles
Caromont Farm is a woman-owned and operated business south of Charlottesville. Cheesemaker Gail Hobbs-Page has been creating award-winning goat’s milk and cow’s milk cheeses. She focuses on creating farm conditions that allow the animals to live Caromont Farm is ato produceLOCAL healthy, happy lives in order delicious and nutritious INGREDIENTS food for her customers.busiCaromont Farm cheeses have been woman-owned featured by the Washington Post, among other prestigious ness south of Charmagazines, but Gail considers her biggest accomplishment to be lottesville creating her selection as one of Virginia’s “Women in Food.” Caromont Farm sells award-winning goat and cow’s milks and cheeses, award-winning goat’s including truffle chevre, fig chevre, and feta. The animals are milk and cow’s milk raised on sustainable, grass-based principles, which creates unique andcheeses. vibrant cheese products.
Farmstead Chevre Esmontonian Cheese
Saunder’s Brothers Piney River, VA (37.8 miles)
37.8 miles
Saunders Brothers is a family owned business alongside the Blue Ridge Mountains in Nelson County, VA. Today, third and fourth generation members of the Saunders family make up the majority of the ownership as the company continues producing peaches Saunders Brothers is LOCAL INGREDIENTS and apples. They also grow a broad range of woody and a familycrops owned herbaceous in thebusimore than 400 greenhouses on site. Their ness company values include faith, integrity, passion and incore Nelson family. They strive to be as environmentally friendly as possible by County, VA producing practicing water conservation and recycling. Saunder’s Brothers provides peaches,pears, apples, Asian pears, cherries, flowering shrubs, apples, annuals and perennials. The business was started in 1915 by peaches, and flowfive brothers who raised rabbits, tobacco, and apples through ers.the Great Depression. tough times like
Asian Pears
Autumn Olive Farms Waynesboro, VA (26 miles)
26 miles
Autumn Olive Farms is an award-winning artisan farm producing pork and beef in the central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Clay & Linda Trainum started AOF in 2005 with Autumn Olive Farms the dual mission of creating healthyLOCAL meats INGREDIENTS using goats and is an award-winning pigs to manage invasive plants and bring their dormant artisan producfamily farmfarm back into production. Their focus is on practices including sustainable, transparent ing pork and beef farming in rotational grazing and animal care. Autumn Olive Farms the Shenandoah produces artisan, heritage pork and beef. AOF is an award Valley of Virginia. winning farm and supplies several Michelin star restaurants.
Bacon Pork
Mighty Thundercloud Edible Forest Birdsnest, VA (239 miles) Located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Mighty Thundercloud 239 miles Edible Forest is managed as a sustainable ecosystem that builds life into its 7.5 acres of soil. Thelonius Cook, the owner and farm manager, started Mighty Thundercloud in 2015 with the goal of answering the key challenge of meeting the food needs of a growing population without health or environmental Located on thecompromising East- human LOCAL INGREDIENTS integrity. Their management practices build soil fertility and enhance ern Shore of Virginia, biodiversity, while aiming to reduce their environmental footprint. They avoidThundercloud the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and replace Mighty them with internal ecological controls and organic practices. The isoutcome a sustainable ecois high yields of healthy and tasty food that help strengthen community and enhance household-level nutrition. system the thatprduces Mighty Thundercloud produces fresh produce, flowers, and products 155 crop varieties including ginger switchel, kimchi, and hibiscus juice. They are able on 7.5 acres ofvarieties soil. in only 7.5 acres of land! to produce 155 crop
Ginger Switchel
Nardelli Lake View Farms CEDARVILLE, NJ (256 miles)
256 miles
Nardelli Lake View Farms is a family farm located in Cedarville, NJ. The Nardelli family has been providing field to fork Lake produce services for over 100 years. Nardelli View LOCAL INGREDIENTS Nardelli View Farms Farms isLake a family farm grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables including leeks, nectarines, and sweet located in Cedarville, potatoes. All of their produce is grown, packed and NJ that has been proshipped from a single source.
viding field to fork produce services for over 100 years.
Leeks