Farm to Family, operated by Mark Lilly, is a bus that stops all over Richmond so that you can pick up fresh produce from local farmers any day of the week. The goal of Farm to Family is to provide local, sustainable and affordable produce to the Richmond metro area and to provide small farms [...]

Sub Rosa is a community supported bakery, meaning that customers pay a subscription fee and then receive a loaf (or two) of bread each week during the subscription period–currently this period is a month long. Sub Rosa is operated by Evrim and Rick; they both bake at a wood fired oven in Northern Virginia [...]

On the 15th of September I visited Dayspring Farm on a very busy. Extension agents and other farmers were visiting to learn more about sustainable farming and share their knowledge. Below, Charlie explains techniques for successful crop cultivation and cover crops:

Dayspring Farm had just planted many of its fall crops, including varieties of Kale and [...]

In the beginning of September, Chimborazo Playground Park saw a bustle of activity, with up to 300 volunteers helping to build garden plots and a new playground. The garden plots are organized by Tricycle Gardens, and there are currently 18 plots. The first work day was 09.03.09, and involved preliminary work to prepare the materials [...]

The Byrd House Market is one of two farmers markets happening in Richmond on Tuesdays. The Byrd House Market, is quite expectedly, located at the Byrd community center in Oregon Hill and runs throughout the year. On this day, I visited Fertile Crescent’s Booth and captured some CSA members picking up their veggie shares.
Below is [...]

Here are images from another visit to Fertile Crescent in its fall growing season. In my earlier post the, the field pictured below was full of potato plants:

The green house was noticeably empty:

And melons and other late summer and early fall crops were being harvested:

Agriberry CSA, in Hanover County, is run by Anne and delivers berries and other fruit to the Richmond area. Below, Anne shows off one of the berry plants planted by a CSA member:

Agriberry is in its initial establishment year and is still planting and building all the structures it will need to continue successfully. Anne [...]

There are numerous community gardens throughout Richmond and they are run by numerous organizations for varying purposes–there is a student garden at VCU, another community garden at UR, a slew of gardens run by Tricycle Gardens, a garden run by the 17th St. Farmers Market, and on and on.
Below are images from a Tricycle [...]

At Simply Abundant, all of the lambs, chickens and turkeys have matured to their full size and rabbits have been added to the family.

When I visited, Emily was separating some of the lambs and sheep so that there would not be any accidental mating.

After the separation some of the sheep sought out the feed in [...]

Dave and Dee, in addition to growing and delivering mushrooms, also deliver produce to restaurants and the Fall Line co-op during the week. Their last stop on Thursday is Edible Gardens Restaurant on River Road just outside of Richmond. Edible Gardens focus is providing customers with dishes made only from local ingredients.
Below, Chef Ed [...]