Gathering Springs Farm

Gathering Springs Farm Sustainable, regenerative farm on 13 acres near Middleburg, VA. Posts by farmers Sarah Waybright and Pamela Jones. Farmers Market | CSA | Courses

We celebrated the Farm’s 7th birthday today with a mega harvest and a full team effort. Gathering Springs Farm wouldn’t ...
06/20/2025

We celebrated the Farm’s 7th birthday today with a mega harvest and a full team effort.

Gathering Springs Farm wouldn’t be what it is today without the enormous number of people that have helped us get to this point, including other farmers, team and family members and of course our wonderful customers. It really has been an amazing journey to get to this point and we are endlessly grateful to be here growing food for our community.

So what’s next? Well if you have been following our stories, you’ll see that we are *SOOOO* close to opening the new Farm Shop. Official opening day is Saturday July 12th!

We are also about to launch a fresh cut flower CSA. It’s 8 weeks long and you’ll get a beautiful mix flower bouquet once a week for 8 weeks delivered to any of our regular CSA drop sites. We’re also including a handmade ceramic vase made right here on the farm. Link in bio to see all the details.

Thanks for being here for this wild ride!

Look mom, no weeds! Wishing you all a happy Mother’s Day weekend. Don’t forget, moms love it when you eat your veggies! ...
05/09/2025

Look mom, no weeds!

Wishing you all a happy Mother’s Day weekend. Don’t forget, moms love it when you eat your veggies! So go check out your local farmers market this weekend and get some gorgeous spring greens.

You know you’ve got high trellis lines when 6ft farmer Sarah needs bucket platforms to string tomatoes. This is the firs...
05/02/2025

You know you’ve got high trellis lines when 6ft farmer Sarah needs bucket platforms to string tomatoes. This is the first time we’re trying tunnel tomatoes and so far we are really REALLY happy not having to pound in T-posts for the trellis. That comes in a few weeks when we’ll do it for our field tomatoes!

Open farm and plant sale, tomorrow (Saturday 26th April) from 10am-2pm! We’ll have plants for sale,  selling his fantast...
04/25/2025

Open farm and plant sale, tomorrow (Saturday 26th April) from 10am-2pm!

We’ll have plants for sale, selling his fantastic coffee, with something sweet to go alongside your coffee, LMT Carol Miller(.miller.52643) doing chair massage, and The Beekeepers Farm to talk all things bees and honey!

We’ll have farm tours through the garden, visiting with the baby lambs and also some sweet ducklings for the kids to meet.

Spring 2019: two fresh-faced, kid-free young(ish) farmers set up shop at their first farmer's market. (It was us.) We br...
04/05/2025

Spring 2019: two fresh-faced, kid-free young(ish) farmers set up shop at their first farmer's market. (It was us.) We brought a few leafy things, some radishes, made $200 and felt pretty good about that. We were one of 6 vendors at a small market, washed our produce in Pam's kitchen, and all our seedlings were started in a greenhouse on because we had yet to build anything but a deer fence. The first dollar we made is still framed in our wash pack trailer to remind us of that exciting first day.

The second 2 pictures are what scaling up looks like. What a difference 7 seasons makes! Last season we served 100 CSA members across an entire year, can grow through the winter in hope houses, grew over 60 different veggies, and have 4 team members working with us. We host classes and tours and offer wholesale and bulk purchasing, We probably could have developed faster but along the way we had 5 kids, and stick to a fairly firm 3-day work week to avoid burnout...we're in this for the long haul and it's HARD work!

This season brings a big change for us: after several years at Ashbrook market we are moving to and start there on April 27th! We are excited to meet new customers and friends, grow better/more veggies and flowers than ever before, and continue this beautiful journey of seasonal eating and connecting to the earth through food. The market is Sundays 9-1 and our CSA is still accepting new members at 5 different drop sites - including the market, where you select your own produce each week starting in June. We hope you can stop by and visit us, either at the farm for an event (plant sale and open farm is April 26 10-2!) or at the market sometime this season!

This weather is really starting to feel spring like, and we have been hard at work seeding in the greenhouse! Everything...
03/03/2025

This weather is really starting to feel spring like, and we have been hard at work seeding in the greenhouse! Everything from a few successions of spring broccoli to the peppers and tomatoes that will be filling our CSA bags come July.

If you are trying to find a way to eat healthier, streamline your weekly groceries and support a local, women owned business, consider joining our farm vegetable subscription (a.k.a. the CSA - this stands for Community Supported Agriculture).

We are excited to be entering our 7th year running a CSA, and we are open for new members! How it works? You purchase your membership (which helps small farms like ours make purchases and investments at the start of the season) and then you get a weekly bag of veggies starting in May and going through October.

CSA is the cornerstone of our farm, and we LOVE LOVE LOVE our members. Fair warning, sometimes we show love with all you can carry zucchini... but we also send a weekly newsletter with some hot tips on what to do with all the produce. Storage tips, recipes and farm updates will drop into your inbox every Tuesday.

Taking trips this summer? Our CSA allows for up to 3 weeks of 'opt outs' meaning you won't miss out on paid-for vegetables if you are taking a trip. Notify us by filling in a simple google form so we know not to pack a bag for you.

Finally, we also offer our members 10% off everything grown or made here at the farm, including our handmade pottery, eggs and on farm events.

Do you have questions? Want to find out if joining our CSA is right for you? Please comment below or send us a DM, we would love to chat!

Ready to share the bounty of the farm? More details and link to sign up here: https://www.gatheringspringsfarm.com/2025-csa-sign-up

Phew! Before   passes us by completely, we wanted to jump on here to make sure everybody knows our CSA is open for sign ...
02/20/2025

Phew! Before passes us by completely, we wanted to jump on here to make sure everybody knows our CSA is open for sign ups!

For those wondering, CSA stands for community supported agriculture. It’s where farm/food loving people can sign up to receive a weekly share of what the farm produces. It helps farmers pay the bills when the bills are frequent and costly (later winter and spring) and then the member reaps the bounty when the field is full, lush and green and the veggies bountiful. A symbiotic relationship between farmers and the people they feed.

This will be our 7th CSA year and we feel like we are getting better and better. But… we would say that! So in case you don’t believe me, here are a few things our members had to say:

“This will be the third year that my wife and I are members of the Gathering Springs Farm CSA. We really love the fresh and healthy vegetables that Pam and Sarah provide us each week! We have a high degree of confidence in the freshness and quality of their produce, and being a CSA member has helped us have a much healthier diet and to have fun finding more creative ways to cook. Picking up our share each week at their farm is very convenient as well. We really appreciate being part of such an inspiring local CSA!” - Gary

“I’ve been participating in the CSA for the past 4 years and couldn’t be happier with the quality and variety of produce. I love that my membership supports a women owned local business and that through “add ons” they are giving us access to support other local businesses. I look forward to the weekly emails that support the vegetable pick up with helpful recipes and ideas. This has reshaped how I plan meals with so many great vegetables to highlight each week!” - Carrie

Send us a message or comment here for info on how to sign up!

Garrett Joseph is here and can't wait to do his first tour of the farm! He arrived Monday night, 5 days ahead of schedul...
01/25/2025

Garrett Joseph is here and can't wait to do his first tour of the farm! He arrived Monday night, 5 days ahead of schedule, clocking 8 #15 on the scale and 21+" long. Farm work does the trick again - labor was fast and uncomplicated and we are recovering well. No better way to spend single digits cold temps, esp if you have other people holding things down in the field! ☕🥶

Happy New Year! Reflecting back on our top posts of 2024, y'all have a lot of love for the babies of GSF, but we are gla...
01/01/2025

Happy New Year! Reflecting back on our top posts of 2024, y'all have a lot of love for the babies of GSF, but we are glad the bees and the new roots washing table snuck in there too.

It's amazing how each season feels so unique, but grounded in the rhythms of the veggies we grow and weather patterns (bc no one is more attuned to the weather than farmers!). This year we provided veggies to 60+ families through the CSAs we offer, and sold at 34 markets. We met our goal of hosting more events, nearly monthly, and continue to meet financial goals that allow us to keep investing in the farm.

To share some ambitions for 2025: we're expanding the CSA to 70-75, aiming to have an event or class monthly, and will be trying out a new market (stay tuned for details!). With the new, ag-dedicated well, we are hoping to grow 20% more produce volume without changing a single other thing (kind of making that number up but feels right). We want to open the new self-serve farm store by the spring, and continue to work in a way that allows us enough time and energy to spend on our littles. This phase of motherhood (all 5 of our kids under 5) feels very intense, draining, and wow wouldn't everything be easier with full nights of sleep...yet it's packed with sweet moments every day, and each season a new baby to expose to the food we grow comes along and that part is so fun.

Eat more local food! Live in a more generous way! Connect! In world where things do not feel as though they're always trending the right way, especially through a social media lens, we can choose how we show up if nothing else. So thank you for following along on our little journey over here, and we hope to see you in 2025!

Don't trash those pumpkins! There are many sustainable ways to get rid of your jack-o'-lanterns and decor pumpkins, and ...
11/04/2024

Don't trash those pumpkins! There are many sustainable ways to get rid of your jack-o'-lanterns and decor pumpkins, and lots of local farms accept them, including us! If you're in Middleburg proper, you can also leave them at Scruffy's. If you're not in the area, a quick googling is totally worth it to divert this kind of waste from a landfill.

SUNDAY the 27th we'll be back  market, 10-2! And yes, weirdly we still have eggplant. But lots of fall things too, squas...
10/26/2024

SUNDAY the 27th we'll be back market, 10-2! And yes, weirdly we still have eggplant. But lots of fall things too, squashes and sweet taters and 5 kinds of bagged greens and *new* pottery and lots of radishes. Come by to see us in some more perfect fall weather!

That crisp fresh air means...time for our 2nd Fall & Winter CSAs! James plans, harvests, washes, and packs these so we h...
10/15/2024

That crisp fresh air means...time for our 2nd Fall & Winter CSAs! James plans, harvests, washes, and packs these so we have some much needed time to give our human babies after a busy main season. Also, we have these amazing hoop houses now and want to maximize their usage!

Membership is open now and only half the size of our main season CSA so grab your spot fast! There will be lots of greens & roots, perfect for your cold weather soup and casserole making. They're short memberships, just 6 weeks each, so it's a great time to try us out without a long commitment. (If neither of our sites is convenient to you, shoot us a message - we are thinking of adding a 3rd but need a good host near Leesburg!)

Link in profile to sign up, and please reach out if you have questions. Our members are the reason we can keep farming - your support gives us income stability and literal seed money for the year ahead! Tag someone who needs to eat more fresh veg!

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Sam Fred Road
Middleburg, VA
20117

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Meet the farmers...

Sarah Waybright and Pam Jones are friends and farmers who together founded and run Gathering Springs Farm.

They met in 2017 whilst working at the local stalwart sustainable farm, Potomac Vegetable Farms. They were both working at PVF for similar reasons, to learn more about where their food comes from and how it should be grown for optimum health. But they both had very different journeys getting there...

Sarah grew up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania and earned her Bachelor’s degree at Franklin & Marshall College in 2006, a Master of Science (MS) in Human Nutrition at Drexel University in 2010, and a dietetic internship through Utah State University’s distance program to become a Registered Dietitian (RD). A longtime DC resident, she has been featured by many Washington media outlets, including the Washington Post, The Express, DCRefined, WUSA9 and as a regular contributor to ABC7’s Good Morning Washington. She’s also been featured by local bloggers including fANNEtastic Food, Boderstan, and LadiesDC and health websites including The Active Times and SheKnows. She has appeared as a guest on the podcasts Foodie & the Beast, Beautiful Life Self Care, and RD Real Talk.

It was Sarah’s love for food, cooking and learning that lead her to farming, firstly as market staff at 78 Acres Farm and then as a farm apprentice at Potomac Vegetable Farms.