12/15/2022
I love this audience when I am loading round bales for them and they are patiently waiting in the parlor. Days like today make me thankful for winter housing and dry bedding!
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We're a full diet farm, growing fruit trees, veggies, & grains biologically and raising livestock in a grass based system.
Our goal is to provide our community healthy, mineralized foods year round and take care of our soil, crops, animals, and customers.
Operating as usual
11/12/2022
Impromptu staff photo (minus and the kids) wearing the sweet new team gear! We’re grateful for a solid staff that made this season seem like a breeze.
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09/30/2022
Roots and greens galore!! Must be fall…
09/29/2022
This winter we will have a jump start on the weeds!
We’ve been going towards growing transplants to maximize our winter tunnel space. We’ll plant later generations that will be grown in grow racks in our basement, and this winter we’ll be able to grow up to 32 trays at a time to keep the new transplants covered. And new this season is landscape fabric in the paths of our transplant houses. We’re putting in the work now to get a lot of greens this winter!!
09/18/2022
Did this guy really dig all those sweet potatoes??
I love working with my kids on the farm. Sometimes it’s really challenging or sometimes it just doesn’t work at all. But then there are some of those sweet moments like this, and I’m really grateful for it.
09/15/2022
Winter tunnels are planted! The crew is keeping it in tip top shape, so we’ll be able to enjoy greens allllll winter long
09/06/2022
Woke up to find this sweet floppy-ear little guy in the pasture this morning! Momma and calf are doing great, we are so thankful for them both!
08/30/2022
Finally got some rain and a break in the heat this afternoon- the plants (and farmers) are feeling very grateful!
08/18/2022
‘Bring in the winter squash pile them high, bring in the pumpkins for pumpkin pie”
Nice butternut squash crop this year! And a solid team to get the job done too!
08/16/2022
These last gasps of high summer got us looking like Walmart up in here!
08/12/2022
A little touch of fall in the air this morning and we are loving it!
08/02/2022
Prettiest vegetable flower! Happy august!
07/31/2022
Want to make your own elderberry syrup?!
Pick Your Own Elderberries!
At the Potomac Vegetable Farm’s Root to Rise Garden in Hillsboro, VA
July 25th through August 20th • Dawn until dusk • Family Friendly • Bring a picnic!
Elderberries are immune system boosters, anti-viral, high in Vit A, good for skin, an anti-inflammatory, help alleviate sinus infections and help ease seasonal allergies. Pick these fresh, local and organically grown elderberries to make your own elderberry syrup at home! Park at the Potomac Vegetable Farm Stand
38369 John Wolford Rd. Hillsboro, VA 20132
No reservation needed • Honor system you pick • $7/lb. • Early mornings & evenings are cooler times to harvest • Instructions for how to harvest are just inside the garden gate • Bring your own bags for berries.
Email [email protected] with any questions
07/24/2022
Family summer vacation in the mountains!! Feeling refreshed and ready to take on the rest of summer and gear up for fall! And grateful that our awesome crew can get it done while we were gone!
07/19/2022
Oh man, CSA- do we have some treats for you!
07/01/2022
Happy Friday friends!
06/30/2022
It’s that time of year for the garlic harvest! These guys will be hanging out in our bank barn to cure for the next few weeks, then we’ll have lots to enjoy into the fall and winter. Shoutout to for letting us harvest some of their bounty too!
06/27/2022
MILKER MONDAY! Meet Stella, a dream in the parlor but an escape artist in the field. We can always count on Stella to be a clean, cooperative milker. Can’t spell stellar without STELLA!
06/06/2022
MILKER MONDAY: Meet Althea, a nurturing, reliable, and chill cow if there ever was one. Althea is a resilient mama who has overcome a lot including having a c-section last year. We are so ‘grateful’ to have you in our herd!
05/30/2022
Sure is starting to feel like summer around here! Sadly, animals and weeds don’t recognize holidays, so happy Memorial Day to all the farmers out there working today!
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05/28/2022
Join us Memorial Day, this Monday 5/30 at 3pm for a farm tour! In our spare time we run craftchesapeake] where we organize a series of informal farm tours throughout the growing season geared towards new and aspiring farmers. Follow craftchesapeake] to stay posted on the tours.
Rob and Mo Moutoux run a unique year-round, whole-diet CSA program. They grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs, milk a 100% grass-fed Jersey dairy herd, and raise 100% grass-fed beef and a pastured laying hen flock. Everything is channelled into the CSA program, where they feed 100 people the bulk of their diets year round. They incorporate animals, cover cropping, forages, and vegetable cropping to create biologically thriving, minerally-rich soils, and ultimately, nutrient dense foods. We will check out all aspects of the operation and the CSA on this interesting tour!
05/24/2022
Misty morning harvest with
Always bringing you freshly picked vegetables on CSA pickup days!
05/16/2022
Beautiful rainbow treat for evening chore time last night!
05/12/2022
Good old fashioned welding lesson for these badass ladies. Wish everything didn’t always break right before 4 days of rain….
05/02/2022
Tomato planting time!! We’ve had some really good helpers today, now the little ones have gotten a well deserved shade break.
The next few weeks are a big push getting all the summer crops out and tended. It’s go time for farmers- a busy and exciting month ahead! And a good time to remember how awesome it is to grow food for a living!
04/28/2022
Spring grazing!
04/19/2022
Kenny is home!!!!! After 24 hours of searching through the snow and rain and wind, our little friend is home with the herd. Huge thanks to and for bringing him home!!!!
04/18/2022
You know what’s the worst? SPRING heavy wet snow! Ugh. And, yes, that is trying to crawl under heavy ass reemay to lift up hoops. We just have to wait it out and see what doesn’t get crushed.
04/14/2022
It’s one our favorite days! Cows on the first lush spring pasture!
04/12/2022
Welcome baby Rubble! Lovingly named by our 3 year old after her favorite Paw Patrol character. Get ready for loads of fresh milk, cream and maybe, just maybe… cheese!
04/09/2022
Nothing like the smell of tomato plants to start us summer dreaming…,
Greenhouse is bursting with life! Impatiently waiting for the weather to cooperate so we can plant!
04/08/2022
Happy !! Here’s our official introduction of our 2022 crew-Maddie, Erin and Katie! Finally got a sunny day this week and we’re getting after planting the onions- yay for spring!
04/05/2022
In our spare time we organize a farmer training group known as Chesapeake CRAFT - Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training . We’ve taken two yeats off but are getting back to it in 2022.
The tours are farmer led and are free and very informal. All are welcome. The schedule is up, and if you’re interested follow us over t
04/03/2022
Welcome to the world, baby Jolene! We are so grateful for you and your mama.
03/31/2022
First calf of the season is always exciting! Welcome to the world beautiful baby girl. Fronts always bring babies!
03/30/2022
Playing with our new flame weeder from to prepare the ground for carrots. Basic idea is to burn the tiny baby weeds to get ahead of them for tiny crops, like carrots.
Feedback so far is that, like most farm tools, it is built for broad shouldered tall people (also not great for our super rocky beds…) But, we strong ass ladies and we got it done!
03/23/2022
Figs and blackberries pruned and mulched-wooo!!! Putting a little extra love into the orchard this year, hoping for lots of fruit… and the new crew is absolutely crushing it
03/14/2022
When we clean out hoop house beds for new plantings, the layers get to enjoy the bounty!
03/12/2022
Just when it was starting to feel like spring…
02/27/2022
There is so much potential in this room! This is where all your spring vegetables start- tucked away in a very warm germination room. This coaxes the seeds out of the ground before they head to the big greenhouse to get growing! And so begins another season…
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15290 Purcellville Road
Purcellville, VA
20132
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It’s one our favorite days! Cows on the first lush spring pasture!
When we clean out hoop house beds for new plantings, the layers get to enjoy the bounty! #recyclenutrients #regenerativefarming #organicfarming #pasturedpoultry #loudounfarms #wholedietcsa
It’s fun around here on these sunny cold afternoons! @erinhyman29 in her element— games and vegetable harvesting. 1 fumble, 2 bins of cabbage tucked away for the winter. @chickenqueer aka Airbud wins MVP. #somuchcabbage #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #organicvegetables #istheseasonoveryet
This week we welcomed our newest flock of laying hens! These gals were shut inside their house for the past 2 days to learn where they should sleep and lay their eggs and now are venturing outside and adjusting to all the people and the guardian dogs.
I had help for today’s paddock move from a veteran cattle handler
Hoop Barn rebuild: Bending hoops-Moutoux style. (Watch Ben in the red sweater)
Harvesting barley is a family affair at Moutoux Orchard!
Helping the pigs beat the heat
What have we been up to? Making hay! We are so excited to be even more self-sufficient and feeding our animals high quality, nutritionally-dense hay!
Our broilers this morning. They love the grass and sunshine, plus some bugs.
Beautiful morning for transplanting squash and cucumbers. We're squash'n it!
Video of our baby calf, Louise. Thanks for sharing CSA member Kim!
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Hi there folks! We are now featuring lettuce from Moutoux Orchard for your burger needs. We also received sugar snap peas, scallions, & cilantro from School Hill Garden and Tiny Acre Farm . Check them out on our new special “Rodrigo-style” fried catfish sandwich. Whew! Those lettuce and sugar snap peas are
| Pan Seared Red Snapper |
(Profish, Ltd.)
-Sweet Potato
(Moutoux Orchard)
-Mole Amarillo
-Purée of Chayote & Field Cress
(School Hill Garden and Tiny Acre Farm)
-Pumpkin Seed and Micro Greens
Our newest dish this weekend 🤩
(Profish, Ltd.)
-Sweet Potato
(Moutoux Orchard)
-Mole Amarillo
-Purée of Chayote & Field Cress
(School Hill Garden and Tiny Acre Farm)
-Pumpkin Seed and Micro Greens
Our newest dish this weekend 🤩
Loudoun farms report a demand for CSAs, as consumers look to support local businesses and avoid supply chain shortages: https://bit.ly/37gAjU3
Looking for a Community Supported Agriculture subscription? Find one here: http://loudounfarms.org/local-produce/csa/
Potomac Vegetable Farms Moutoux Orchard Root and Marrow Farm
Looking for a Community Supported Agriculture subscription? Find one here: http://loudounfarms.org/local-produce/csa/
Potomac Vegetable Farms Moutoux Orchard Root and Marrow Farm
"Hey Peggy, there's some cud chewing noise. Can you mute yourself?"
We couldn't resist 😊 but in all seriousness, want to send a smile, thank you, and "hang in there" to ALL of our regional farmers (not just the one's whose animals got on our 'Benefits of Going Grassfed' call) for their hard work through this pandemic. Many have had to learn new digital platforms and quickly build new packing and distribution systems in order to pivot to direct sales. And that's on top of the already busy nature of Spring.
Now is a perfect time to invest your grocery dollars into your local food community. To find a farmer near you, or get listed, visit the Find-A-Farmer Or Market Map on our website.
To help us continue to help farmers, consider donating to Future Harvest.
Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture Open Book Farm Moutoux Orchard Whiffletree Farm Chesapeake Bay Foundation Long Stone Farm Georges Mill Farm Artisan Cheese Bean Hollow Grassfed Flying Plow Farm Plow and Stars Farm Where Pigs Fly Farm St Brigid's Farm Rocklands Farm DC Greens Clagett Farm CSA
We couldn't resist 😊 but in all seriousness, want to send a smile, thank you, and "hang in there" to ALL of our regional farmers (not just the one's whose animals got on our 'Benefits of Going Grassfed' call) for their hard work through this pandemic. Many have had to learn new digital platforms and quickly build new packing and distribution systems in order to pivot to direct sales. And that's on top of the already busy nature of Spring.
Now is a perfect time to invest your grocery dollars into your local food community. To find a farmer near you, or get listed, visit the Find-A-Farmer Or Market Map on our website.
To help us continue to help farmers, consider donating to Future Harvest.
Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture Open Book Farm Moutoux Orchard Whiffletree Farm Chesapeake Bay Foundation Long Stone Farm Georges Mill Farm Artisan Cheese Bean Hollow Grassfed Flying Plow Farm Plow and Stars Farm Where Pigs Fly Farm St Brigid's Farm Rocklands Farm DC Greens Clagett Farm CSA
Rauch Tater — Imperial Märzen 8.2% // 100% Virginia Grain
750mL bottles
This is a special beer for us. It’s our first collaboration and meant to celebrate the season, the harvest, and the small farms that make local agriculture possible. Two family farms bringing value-added produce to market, individually — one a Whole Diet CSA and one a Land Beer brewery — offer you Rauch Tater, together. We partnered with Moutoux Orchard to create this Imperial Märzen made with smoked sweet potatoes, sage, and brown sugar.
Moutoux Orchard is a third generation family farm committed to sustainable, whole-diet agriculture. The Moutoux family works tirelessly to bring people the highest quality produce and provisions, with a focus on sustainable land stewardship and ethical livestock management. We are so incredibly grateful to call them neighbors, colleagues, and friends.
The name, Rauch Tater, hints at our approach to this beer. With a wink to northern Bavarian Rauchbier, which uses smoked malt for often deep smokey flavors, we opted for a subtle smoke component — more earthly than smokey— as a guidepost for the flavors to meet. Instead of smoked grain, the sustainably-grown sweet potatoes from Moutoux Orchard were smoked at our farm with local apple and cherry wood. The sweet potatoes were then put in the 100% Virginia grain mash with local sage. Once transferred to the boil kettle, we added brown sugar.
Post fermentation, the Imperial Märzen rested in oak puncheons at 35F for three months before bottle conditioning for another two months. The result is a flavorful beer with complexity from ingredients that have had time to get to know each other. Rauch Tater has a lush base from the malt and molasses sweetness from the brown sugar. The waft of smoke provides an earthy taste that connects the malt and molasses with a velvety mouthfeel from the sweet potatoes. This is capped with a savory and dry finish at the top, thanks to the sage. To us, it tastes like the holidays.
Available from Saturday, 14 December.
@ Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery
750mL bottles
This is a special beer for us. It’s our first collaboration and meant to celebrate the season, the harvest, and the small farms that make local agriculture possible. Two family farms bringing value-added produce to market, individually — one a Whole Diet CSA and one a Land Beer brewery — offer you Rauch Tater, together. We partnered with Moutoux Orchard to create this Imperial Märzen made with smoked sweet potatoes, sage, and brown sugar.
Moutoux Orchard is a third generation family farm committed to sustainable, whole-diet agriculture. The Moutoux family works tirelessly to bring people the highest quality produce and provisions, with a focus on sustainable land stewardship and ethical livestock management. We are so incredibly grateful to call them neighbors, colleagues, and friends.
The name, Rauch Tater, hints at our approach to this beer. With a wink to northern Bavarian Rauchbier, which uses smoked malt for often deep smokey flavors, we opted for a subtle smoke component — more earthly than smokey— as a guidepost for the flavors to meet. Instead of smoked grain, the sustainably-grown sweet potatoes from Moutoux Orchard were smoked at our farm with local apple and cherry wood. The sweet potatoes were then put in the 100% Virginia grain mash with local sage. Once transferred to the boil kettle, we added brown sugar.
Post fermentation, the Imperial Märzen rested in oak puncheons at 35F for three months before bottle conditioning for another two months. The result is a flavorful beer with complexity from ingredients that have had time to get to know each other. Rauch Tater has a lush base from the malt and molasses sweetness from the brown sugar. The waft of smoke provides an earthy taste that connects the malt and molasses with a velvety mouthfeel from the sweet potatoes. This is capped with a savory and dry finish at the top, thanks to the sage. To us, it tastes like the holidays.
Available from Saturday, 14 December.
@ Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery
Imperial Märzen with smoked sweet potatoes, sage, and brown sugar.
We partnered with our friends and neighbors at Moutoux Orchard to use two hundred pounds of their sustainably grown sweet potatoes in this Imperial Märzen. The sweet potatoes were smoked at our farm by Market Table Bistro over apple and cherry wood before being mixed with regional grains and local sage. It was brewed in early summer and cold conditioned in oak for three months. A limited number of bottles will be available for purchase next month.
Live Music 🎶Saturday, October 12th: (The Plate Scrapers)
We partnered with our friends and neighbors at Moutoux Orchard to use two hundred pounds of their sustainably grown sweet potatoes in this Imperial Märzen. The sweet potatoes were smoked at our farm by Market Table Bistro over apple and cherry wood before being mixed with regional grains and local sage. It was brewed in early summer and cold conditioned in oak for three months. A limited number of bottles will be available for purchase next month.
Live Music 🎶Saturday, October 12th: (The Plate Scrapers)
Our team always loves to visit Moutoux Orchard , they have the cutest animals🥰
“A Taste of Summer” $55 4 Courses
~cucumber avocado gazpacho
~variations of summer
~scallops, caponata
~blueberry lemon parfait
Moutoux Orchard Squire Oaks Farm Georges Mill Farm Artisan Cheese Cocina on MarketMarket Burger Fries and Shakes
~cucumber avocado gazpacho
~variations of summer
~scallops, caponata
~blueberry lemon parfait
Moutoux Orchard Squire Oaks Farm Georges Mill Farm Artisan Cheese Cocina on MarketMarket Burger Fries and Shakes
A huge thank you to all of the farms that hosted last weekend's BFTP-only hands-on field days. It's a delight to be constantly awed by the generosity of the farmers in our network. We tested out tractors at Potomac Vegetable Farms, toured the orchard and cattle pastures and learned about CSAs at Moutoux Orchard, explored everything cut flower at Greenstone Fields, and talked about small farm equipment and marketing at Second Spring. Click through the photos below for a small snapshot of these information-packed days.
Thanks Moutoux Orchard for hooking us up with 200 pounds of sweet potato for our first produce forward beer that we’ll be brewing this week. Market Table Bistro has our back this weekend whipping up BBQ Pork and Summer Vegetable Flatbread for customers while also smoking all 200 pounds of these sweet potato beauties. @ Loudoun County, Virginia