4P Foods ••• September 6, 2015
The Farm at Sunnyside is in a heavenly setting tucked away in a valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains and bordering Shenandoah National Park to the north. When standing in the middle of the farm, the heavily forested surroundings makes it feel like you...
4P Foods ••• August 30, 2015
Saunders Brothers Orchard is a third generation family farm in Piney River, VA. The farm began in 1915 as a cattle farm when 5 brothers decided to pool their resources and form a partnership. With the coming of the Great Depression, money became...
4P Foods ••• July 18, 2015
Hartland Farm is definitely one of our most unique producers. The farm serves as a training ground for the students and staff of Hartland Institute, a four year missionary school in beautiful Madison, Virginia, to learn and gain experience in...
4P Foods ••• July 8, 2015
Mike and Molly grew up in rural Illinois where they were high school sweethearts. Molly grew up with a menagerie of animals from dogs and horses to a goat named Ritzy, and, once, even a pet turkey they called George. Mike, bred from a long family...
4P Foods ••• June 21, 2015
Wendy Stuart, a co-founder of Wide Net Project, pretty much summed up what we love about the organization in this quote taken from an interview with the Washington Post […] "Conceptually, its simple. There's too much fish, so let's turn this...
4P Foods ••• June 9, 2015
The Rock Barn is Nelson County’s renowned custom pork butchery. Ben Thompson, a former United States Navy cook aboard the USS Hampton, is the chef-butcher-owner of the Rock Barn. While deployed, Benjamin was exposed to cuisine from everywhere...
4P Foods ••• May 27, 2015
Local Food Hub is a nonprofit organization based out of Charlottesville that partners with Virginia farmers to increase community access to local food. Their mission is "to provide the support services, infrastructure, and market opportunities,...
4P Foods ••• May 9, 2015
There’s something about Hugh French that draws you in. It could be his warm, bashful smile. Perhaps it’s the fact that he is such a great host to people visiting his farm and gets joy out of showing them around – zipping from one field to...
4P Foods ••• April 28, 2015
Jesse Straight and his wife Liz did not grow up on a farm. Jesse grew up in a typical suburban neighborhood and had zero interest in farming. In fact, his father kept a vegetable patch at their home and he admits that he never worked on it once....
4P Foods ••• April 27, 2015
Ayrshire Farms takes great pride in their ability to combine the old with the new. They like to say they have one foot in the 19th century while one foot also firmly planted in the 21st century. Originally a plantation from the 1820's, the farm...
