Oakland Green Farm

05/08/2024

Here’s something that doesn’t happen every day. Twins! And sometimes this scenario doesn’t play out well. Bottles etc. and we may yet get there, but both calves have been observed nursing even though one is clearly her favorite.

03/18/2024

Happy Almost Spring! The season is turning and I have a few sides of beef coming up available soon. I see lots of questions posted asking questions and I'm happy to answer anything about the process from start to finish. These sides will be available for pickup at the processor in Hagerstown at the end of April. Feels like summer grilling season will almost be upon us at that time, but you'll be ready for whatever is happening with a freezer full of beef.

02/21/2024

Proud of my girl and also a reminder beef is available at The Hamilton Mercantile!

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05/31/2023

Thanks Caleb - for shouting out to the farms that have been here a while. We're still here....still....here....

The next stop in our Loudoun Century Farm series is Oakland Green Farm.

Oakland Green Farm is a 200-acre cattle farm, located in a rural setting south of Leesburg and just south of Lincoln. The farm's main focus is raising Black Angus beef cattle, with some land set aside to grow hay and corn. They also run a bed & breakfast in the farm's oldest historic building, which dates back to the early 1700s.

The farm itself was established in 1730 by Richard Brown, a Quaker farmer who had migrated south from Pennsylvania. It was formally deeded to him in 1741. The family still has the original deed that was signed by Lord Fairfax. Over the years, its size has been reduced to its current 200 acres, and it has been at various points an orchard, a dairy farm, and now a beef cattle farm. But 300 years later, it is still a working farm, and is currently owned and run by Sara Brown, Richard's descendant.

If you tour the farm's grounds, you'll find a number of historic buildings, including the original homestead log house, a pre-Civil War barn, and a spring house that was built in 1801 (and was used for full water supply until 1992). The original log house also carries the marks of each new generation of the family, as they built additions to it, added its barns, and planted its trees and shrubs. (You can read the full list of which family member made what addition here: https://buff.ly/45GShwY)

Oakland Green Farm's beef products are available through The Hamilton Mercantile in the town of Hamilton. You can also order beef directly from them, either by the side or as frozen individual cuts, at this link: https://buff.ly/42fFZIQ And if you're interested in staying at the farm's B&B, or booking the farm as a wedding site, you can make those arrangements at the same link.

Link to Oakland Green Farm's website: http://www.oaklandgreen.com/

04/28/2023

I've been consolidating freezers and realizing we have lots of meat in there that would rather be in YOUR freezer. Also - We do not normally but right now I have about a ton of PORK in the freezers from Midnight Forest Farm's piggies! I'm around the farm much of this weekend for beef pickup and remember I'm able to do limited deliveries around the county.

06/30/2022

I don’t usually have these guys in stock but there are a couple left. Flank and hanger, my absolute favorite. I consumed all leftovers by myself. The treatment of these steaks was said (by my mother) to have wooed my father.

06/23/2022

I’m way late on the update but this carload of amateurs put in a solid day’s work and helped momma move a ton of beef twice. OG is now stocked with everything. Still offering easy contactless pickup and some limited deliveries.

05/26/2022

Memorial Day weather looks fine for grilling. Maybe Sunday too. Who can say? I have plenty of steaks and burgers and a couple briskets left!

04/28/2022

Fresh grass for next year’s beef. This has been the longest most colorful, bloomy spring I can remember. It may portend a long hot summer. Let’s take the cool days and green grass when we can, eh?

03/30/2022

Some of this some of that. The labor and the delivery. Five babies on the ground. Zero cuddlers among them. I lost an argument with the naughty one today but won over the rest with my charms and awesome jokes.