Edgegrove Farm LLC

11/20/2020

Can’t get enough of our new baby Boer/Kiko babies!

08/29/2020

Takin' bacon 🥓 to a new level! Picked up our pork from T&E Meats yesterday and couldn't be more pleased! Limited quantities available @edgegrovefarm
#bacon #loudounfarmer #loudoungrown #pork #localfarmer #knowyourfarmer #eatlocal #goodfat #berkshires #nongmofeed

08/25/2020

Beef, Chicken & Pork Now Available!

Beef, Chicken & Pork Now Available!

Beef, Chicken & Pork Retail Cuts & Packages

07/15/2020

Garlic drying season! Plantednin November, harvested in July and hung on an old rack my husband found in a garage #knowyourfarmer #loudoungrown #sustainablefarming #organicveggies

07/11/2020

Free-range, pastured, non-GMO chicken available! Just updated our website with all the details and pricing. We also are offering a pick-up option in Falls Church City. Get it while it lasts! #knowyourfarmer #loudounfarmer #loudoungrown #pasturedpoultry #nongmo #localfarmer #goodeats #dceats # chicken #sustainablefarming

07/10/2020

Hello from Edgegrove Farm! A warm hello to our friends, customers and encouragers! We hope that you and yours are well as all of us continue to adjust and persevere in this unprecedented time we find ourselves. Perhaps like many of you, for...

Hello from Edgegrove Farm! A warm hello to our friends, customers and encouragers! We hope that you and yours are well as all of us continue to adjust and persevere in this unprecedented time we find ourselves. Perhaps like many of you, for...

A Family Milk Cow. What feels like the most significant change around the farm is the addition of a family milk cow. After years of debating whether or not to have a dairy cow, circumstances aligned to bring an A2/A2 dairy cow home just as we were all settling in for a nice long period of isolation....

06/11/2020

No words needed....just a beautiful morning here at Edgegrove.

05/25/2020

Snapshots from morning chores....nothing like springtime on a farm #loudounfarmer #knowyourfarmer #grassfed #familymilkcow #rawmilk #nodiggarden #organicveggies #pasturedpork #berkshire #pasturedpoultry #duckpond #pasturedeggs #sustainablefarming #goodfood #nofilter @ Edgegrove Farm LLC

05/16/2020

So excited to start harvesting more out of the garden today...the early spring vegetables have arrived! #hakuraiturnips#sproutingbroccoli#radishes #kale#lettuce #organic #nodiggarden #vitamins #immunityboost #loudounfarmer #localfarmer #knowyourfarmer

05/06/2020

Baby ducklings have hatched!! #ducklings #welshharlequin #egglayers #loudounfarmer #localfarmer #pasturedeggs #springbabies

04/30/2020

This always at home, always hungry people, and a rainy week is bringing out my inner baker that I normally overlook...rainy day doughnut break [fried in homemade pastured pork lard]! #loudounfarmer #covid19life #fromscratch #pasturedpork #doughnuts @ Edgegrove Farm LLC

04/29/2020

I stood back for a second and thought about how much was going on in this kitchen today. This is absolutely a snapshot of real life at the moment. It was kind of overwhelming - mostly in a good way - and also made me smile at the fingerprints of family and friends that are present: half-finished coffee cup beside a early reader book for my 1st grader beside my box of seeds that I inventoried at 7am before making one more order from @johnnys_seeds so we can double the garden and hopefully have more to share; the LCPS chrome book on the kitchen table of my 4th grader who sat there most of the morning doing school...beside the sand and toy train of her 3 year old brother we try to keep occupied during "school"; the clean milk pail on the counter from morning milking; the @vitamix I used to grind the organic whole grains my friend @angsuebre helped hook me up, which I'm now using to make my favorite bread recipe (the one I first was able to make successfully thanks to the patient instruction of @friesenali who got me to begin making my own bread all those years ago!); the pasta maker on loan from @racheljoyraggio that I finally worked up the courage to try to use; bone broth simmering on the stove - a remnant from last night's roasted chicken dinner. This place is definitely the heart of our home and where life happens - although not always quite this much at once! Miss having friends in this space but thankful for how your presence is still found in the heart of my home. #covid19life #loudounfarmer #smallfarm #sustainable #homesteading #kitchenistheheartofthehome #seeds #school #farming #cookingfromscratch #family #friends

04/01/2020

Introducing Millie....after years of debating about whether or not to have a milk cow we have decided now is as good a time as any to give it a try thanks to @dayspringfarmva. So excited to have our own dairy, augment the feed for our pigs and take another step toward an integrated sustainable farm. #dairycow #familymilkcow #sustainable #smallfarm #loudounfarmer #localfarmer #homestead

03/28/2020

We have some pastured non-GMO chicken($5) and duck ($8) eggs available if anyone is in need of some as well as a good supply of 100% grass-fed ground beef ($7/lb). Text or message if you'd like to make an order for pick-up. We have worked out a pick up system at the end of our lane rather than driving in to the farm store. #loudounfarmer #localfarmer #pasturedeggs #goodfood

03/25/2020

Isolation is a current reality...although I am so thankful for all the ways we CAN stay connected! The rainy day had me thinking about another time I felt disconnected. Setting up the farm as home was so very exciting…and very very quiet and sometimes isolating in the first few years as well. Although we had moved a lot, it had always been within the same community. The move to the farm was a move to a completely new place and to a new community. Even though we only moved an hour it might as well have been another state and we were leaving a very tight knit community of friends and our long-time church. Moreover, in my head I thought we were returning to a rural county, like the one I had grown up in. I was so confused when the people I did meet didn’t seem to understand that we were trying to start a farm – not just have backyard chickens, raise a cow and have a big garden. The culture wasn’t all that different from the metro DC culture in terms of kids activities and what people did on the weekends. I thought when I first moved that Loudoun County was going to be like returning home to western Pennsylvania. Nope. A slower farming mentality and lifestyle is not really generally understood. It is counter-cultural and although we have since found many around us who do get it and are also running small farms or homesteads, there is still a gap in understanding. More on that later. It’s not a criticism so much as something I didn’t realize I was going to have to navigate and understand as well as figure out how to handle as a family with 4 kids. How much do we choose to be counter-cultural as a family? How much do we say “yes” to “normal” kids activities? What is the right balance of opportunities? I share this aspect of our journey to making this place our home because it factors into decisions regarding actual farming. I would say it took about 4-5 years to finally feel like this farm, place, county and community are home. We are so thankful for the people that have made this become home. May our roots only grow deeper. #loudounfarmer #farmstories #localfarmer #home #isolation @ Loudoun County, Virginia

03/20/2020

Loaded up a 1/2 of a 100% grass-fed Angus Beef for delivery to Falls Church this morning. We are able to send 2 more to butcher in mid-April if anyone is interested in a 1/2 or 1/4 share for delivery in May. A 1/2 share will yield around 200lbs or meat or more of which 80-90lbs is hamburger and the rest is roasts, steaks, short ribs, shanks etc. It can easily be shared among a group of families. All cuts are vacuumed sealed and frozen. If interested, send me a message and I can give you all the pricing details. If requested, we could also turn one beef into almost all hamburger for sharing in a neighborhood. Our pricing has not been increased. In terms of freezer space, a 1/2 share would require about 7 cubic ft ....splitting a 1/4 share should pretty much fit into the freezer side of a typical refrigerator/freezer. #loudounfarmer #localfood #grassfed #sustainable #bandtogether #knowyourfarmer #homegrown

03/19/2020

Sharing some oldies today - one from the day we 1st saw the farm (my 36th birthday - can't believe how tiny my 2 oldest look!) and one from the following week when we went back to look at the farm and began to really think and pray about trying to buy it. This 2nd pic is literally engraved in my memory - it was a beautiful September Sunday afternoon and I remember thinking then about what it could be like to raise children here. In a move that can best be compared to going “all-in,” we went for it with a lot of prayer, hope, and frankly uncertainty as to whether we were making the right choice or responding emotionally. This farm was a lot bigger and more than we had been thinking about. It seems we spent more time praying for God to close the doors to this place than to open them, but God amazingly worked out the myriad of details that allowed it to come to fruition. On our daughter’s 4th birthday we signed the papers and we became the stewards of Edgegrove Farm. We had (and still have) many dreams and ideas about where to go from there, but the one thing we knew for certain – and has remained true – is that we really view this place as one to steward, to bless our family and others, and to be a place where people can breathe. At that point we had no idea what that would look like and didn’t know anyone in what would become our new community to even share it with – that was, and is, part of the journey. #loudounfarmer #farmstories #localfarmer #dreams #home @ Edgegrove Farm LLC

03/17/2020

Edgegrove Farm.
A farm nestled between the hills in western Loudoun County. A place that has been before Loudoun County was a county and before America existed. Settled in 1746, it has weathered the founding of a nation, the civil war, world wars, the technology wave and – so far – encroaching development. Yet, we are only the 3rd family to be the stewards of this place. It was the oldest continuously farmed farm in Loudoun County by direct descendants of its original settler until 2005. When we stumbled on this farm on my birthday in 2012 it felt like we had stepped into another era. We didn’t think farms like this existed in Loudoun County anymore. Even underneath obvious signs that something had gone wrong and neglected care, it was a gem. The old stone house – stripped down to its studs and not inhabitable – was solid and had stood the test of time since 1880. We would later learn it was built on the foundation of the original homestead log cabin. The original springhouse and smokehouse whispered stories long forgotten. The bank barn, which had been significantly worked on, was an exact replica of those seen in countless children’s storybooks. And the views, oh the views…. and a land that seemed to be waiting to be worked again. #loudounfarmer #localfarmer
#farmstories #virginiahistory #home @ Edgegrove Farm LLC

03/16/2020

I have a love-hate relationship with social media. I cycle through completely withdrawing from it and then opening up to sharing the story and pictures of this beautiful farm that I get to call home. I’m not convinced I will ever resolve my vacillating tendencies – I could write an entire commentary on that alone. Nonetheless, as everything around me has quieted with the onset of the coronavirus and social distancing, (hmmm, ok the tyranny of the schedule has quieted but the house decibel and crazy has increased with all 4 kids at home!), it has given an opportunity to reflect and write a bit. I have wanted to get some of these thoughts out of my head for a while – thoughts that wander through my mind when I’m doing chores, driving kids different places, gardening, mowing etc. Over the next little stretch of time, I’ve decided to share a short series of “longer than you should post on IG” stories about this place, about us, about local farming, about the journey so far and a thought or two on the road ahead. We will see how long I keep it up! You’re welcome to walk along. If nothing else, perhaps it will be enjoyable diversion for you and a way to connect virtually during this homebound time. May this time at home have unexpected gifts within it for you and your families as we strive together to practice social distance for the sake of flattening out the curve, protecting the most vulnerable and helping prevent our health system from becoming overwhelmed by those who most need it for whatever reason. #springblossoms #farmstories #localfarmer #loudounfarmer #farmmother #community