Our 2023 farm shares are now available for signups online. Willowsford Farm Stand is closed for the Winter season, will reopen in the Spring!
Visit us at https://willowsfordconservancy.org/willowsford-farm/farm-shop/ to join our local food community!
Operating as usual
Join us on March 23 for our Sustainable Thinking Workshop! Led by Andrew, the longest-serving staff member of Willowsford Conservancy, for an introduction to sustainable development – what that means to Loudoun County, the region, and the role Willowsford Conservancy plays in preserving and protecting natural resources for the future. Light refreshments and snacks from the Willowsford Kitchen will be provided. 🌿
Happy International Pi Day π, folks! To celebrate at Willowsford Farms, we're highlighting the yummy Harvest Symphony pies sold at the Farm Stand. Check out this great partner! 🥧
Thank you to our 260 Willowsford neighbors who volunteered this past Saturday for our first grassroots effort, the Let's Talk Trash event! They rallied against the weather to collect four dumpsters of trash and several tires. Thank you to the four village teams that made this event a family affair!
Our event is tomorrow starting at 9 am! We look forward to seeing our great volunteers! There is still time to sign up ➡ https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d4daca82ba2f8cf8-lets1?mc_cid=a1e501903a&mc_eid=UNIQID&fbclid=IwAR2wP-zSuX1i2jtiV2eJNDrsPs_X5DztoaGZk02BEM0G70nbH4TdZ0eCDXY#/
🐥2023 Feathered Fosters Update: Due to continued concerns surrounding Avian Flu outbreaks in commercial settings and wildlife spread, the Willowsford Conservancy is pausing our Feathered Fosters program this year. In addition to reducing the risk to our flock, our staff wants to reduce the risk of exposure for our Willowsford Farm community. We know this is disappointing, and we welcome any questions concerning our Avian Flu protocols and Farm operations at [email protected].
Join us TONIGHT for our last 2023 Meet the Farmer from 5:30–7 pm at the Willowsford Boat House with KT Pizza. This productive and informative event is a great way to learn about our Willowsford CSA Share and our ever-growing Farm-ily! 🥕🍕
Thank you for our fellow neighbors for volunteering for our initiative to clean up the Willowsford community this Saturday! Join us on March 11, 9-11am for a Willowsford-wide clean-up day. Your efforts will be led by a Village Coordinator, with post clean up refreshments served at The Boat House (Greens). KTPizza Food Truck will also be on location. Let's spruce up Willowsford for the Spring season! 🌿
Join us on Saturday, March 11, 9-11am for a Willowsford-wide clean up day. Your efforts will be led by a Village Coordinator, with post clean up refreshments served at The Boat House (Greens). KTPizza Food Truck will also be on location. Please sign up for a trail, trail head, or segment, and bring....
Happy ! There's no better way to celebrate than doing our part to protect the animals and plants that call the Willowsford Conservancy home. 🌿🪶
A special “thank you” to all of our Willowsford residents for making a positive impact by working together in our villages to keep them clean today and every day. Make plans to join our Let's Talk Trash Initiative on March 11th by signing up here: https://willowsfordconservancy.org/event/lets-talk-trash-village-wide-clean-up-day/
Happy Valentine's Day from the Willowsford Conservancy Team!
Let Willowsford Farm Help You With Your Valentine's Day Gift! Valentine's Day is this Tuesday, and a gift certificate to a Virginia-grown Flower CSA is the perfect gift! With a Willowsford Farm Flower CSA, your loved one can enjoy flowers all summer long, starting with the first bouquet in May. Our local partner, LoCo Flower Collective, gives each bouquet its character and charm. As a gift, you will receive a free dozen eggs for each Flower CSA purchase! ➡️ https://app.barn2door.com/946GN/all/7qpn0?mc_cid=fe741f4a58&mc_eid=UNIQID🌺❤️🌺❤️
OOH, LA LA! Valentine's Day is next week, and a gift certificate to a Virginia-grown Flower CSA is the perfect gift! With a Willowsford Farm Flower CSA, your loved one can enjoy flowers during the summer starting in May. Our local partner, LoCo Flower Collective, gives each bouquet its character and charm. As a gift to you, you will receive a free dozen eggs for each Flower CSA purchase!🌷🌹🌺
TONIGHT: KT Pizza at the Boat House! Swing by and say "Hello" to Farmer Andy at Meet the Farmer from 5-7 pm, and enjoy some incredible pizza. You won't want to miss it! 🍕🥕
Don't miss out! The Early Bird Discount ends at midnight on February 1st so take advantage of this additional opportunity to maximize your food dollars. We'd love to welcome you to the Farm-ily! Sign-up here: https://app.barn2door.com/willowsfordconservancy.org/all
Early Bird Discount for the 2023 CSA Season Ending February 1st!
Lock in on these benefits now by using promo code IHW2023 and enjoy an early bird discount on farm fresh eggs, organic vegetables, and Virginia-grown flowers. 🥕🌷🐔
We 💛 our cheese at Willowsford Farm! Check out one of our great partners, Locksley Farmstead Cheese Co.
https://locksleycheese.com 🧀
We’re firm believers that high-quality cheese can only come from the happiest (and healthiest) of herds. That is why Locksley Farmstead Cheese takes pride in the farming practices and conditions with which we raise our cows. These amazing cows, their healthy diet, and easy life are the key compone...
Day 12 in our 12 Days of Thanks - On , we're celebrating the success of our 2022 blue bird monitoring season! Our volunteers carefully noted the last birds that took up residence in our boxes. We had another productive year of fledglings in Willowsford, and here are the details:
🪶Total Birds Fledged: 78
🪶Number of Bluebirds Fledged: 32
🪶Hatching success rate: 72%
Our wonderful volunteers are now winterizing the boxes to provide a sheltered space for birds staying here during these cold months.
Are you interested in monitoring birds with us this year? Sign up through our website for more information on monitoring our bluebird, wood duck, and owl boxes. 🐦🦆
Day 11 of our 12 Days of Thanks - Our Community Egg Collection volunteers made a difference.
During this past year, we asked for your help with our community egg collection, and you showed up by the dozens. From warm weather to brisk mornings, we appreciate our volunteers who made our days a little more eggcellent. 🐔🫶
Join us for dinner Tonight & Thursday night with KT Pizza! 😀🍕
Enjoy the first and only mobile wood-fired pizzeria in the greater Washington, D.C. area. with KT Pizza at the Boathouse TONIGHT (1/4) from 4-6 pm and the Farm Stand (1/5) from 4-6 pm.
Day 10 in our 12 Days of Thanks - Improving Our Willowsford Tree Canopy!
Thank you to our Grant Village team for planting trees this year! Together, we planted 50 native trees to offset the trees removed by Loudoun County Public Schools for a waterline easement. The County provided us with enough funding to replant the surrounding areas to compensate for the canopy loss. To date, our Willowsford Conservancy team planted over 600 trees in 2022. 🌳🙌
🚨Starting Tomorrow - Trail Closure is scheduled for January 4-7, 2023! 🚨
The Greens and Grant trails and The Grove Pinewoods Loop Trail will be CLOSED Wednesday-Saturday, January 4-7, for the Deer Management Program muzzleloader and shotgun hunt. Residents must observe all trail closure signs. Trails will reopen on Sunday, January 8.
More information on the deer management program, including safety information, hunting guidelines, schedules, and maps, can be found on the Willowsford Conservancy website.
Day 9 in our 12 Days of Thanks - Strategically brush-hogging meadows for our Willowsford wildlife.
Our Willowsford Conservancy team worked hard this past year on brush-hogging meadows for our community by strategically only mowing some areas of meadows. The plan was to provide wildlife with food and shelter over Winter until we mow again in March. Much of our wildlife depends on these spaces for food and shelter compared to the brush-hogged meadow that provides no shelter or food for wildlife. 🐿🐦
Day 8 in our 12 Days of Thanks - Providing convenience for dinner.
One of our biggest successes in 2022 came from some of our amazing food truck partners! We partnered with a few different trucks, offering pizza, tacos, and Caribbean cuisine during our Summer and Winter seasons. Taco Town VA was our Farm Stand star; they joined us almost every week, serving fresh street food in the Grange from May to October. KT Pizza has kept us warm with Winter, slinging hot pies from their truck at the Boathouse in the Greens. The Seafood at the Shack even created a brunch menu for their Saturday morning slots at the Farm Stand. We've been thrilled to provide our community with delicious, convenient lunch and dinner options within the Willowsford community itself and look forward to more meals in 2023! 🌮🍕👏
Day 7 in our 12 Days of Thanks - We are educating the next generation.
One of our goals at Willowsford Farm is education, including the youngest generation! We offer a variety of youth engagement programs, but Farm Camp is the "cream of the crop." With our highest attendance in 2022, the junior farmers got to experience some of our day-to-day activities. Learning how we start seeds in the greenhouse and harvest produce in the field is a fun process, and they get to take home some veggies to try. Campers spent a day collecting and washing the chicken eggs. We are thrilled to be an intersection for the next generation and their relationship with the land, and we hope to help plant the seed for a love of it all. 🌿
Day 6 in our 12 Days of Thanks - Conservancy space happens even in your backyard! This year, we focused on promoting tree canopy and native species in residence backyards - especially native wildflower meadows for pollinators and other small wildlife to use.
Residents helped by planting small trees and shrubs in wetland areas behind their homes to help establish native vegetation to promote the health of forested wetlands and water quality—these wetland areas help reduce flooding too! Additionally, neighbors removed invasive plants & vines behind their property, allowing for native trees and plants can move back into the area behind their home.
Willowsford residences inspired all these projects as they came to the Willowsford Conservancy with great ideas and suggestions. We worked together, so their progress saw the most remarkable success this year!
Day 5 in our 12 Days of Thanks - You love our Boathouse Farm Stand Pop-up! We've received a lot of feedback about different events the Farm Team hosted this year, and one of the most popular was our recurring Boathouse Farm Stand Pop-up!
We know that crossing Route 50 to get to the Grange Farm Stand can be a trek, especially during rush hour, so we decided it was better to bring the Farm Stand to the Greens. We set up shop, called in a food truck, and offered our Farm Stand experience from the Boathouse.
What we'd call a resounding success: we often had sold out of several options by the time we closed up shop, and we got some excellent face-to-face time with more Willowsford residents! We can't wait to spend more time at the Boathouse in 2023!
Day 4 in our 12 Days of Thanks - Which side of the forest would you pick? Which do you think is a healthier forest?
Our Willowsford Conservancy Team works hard to ensure our forest stays healthy. What appeals to us and draws us in is a forest such as the one on the right. It has large mature trees with a clear, open understory that allows us to see well into the woods. However, the woods on the left are much healthier. The breaks in the canopy have allowed for oak regeneration which is often rare in our forests. There are several layers to the understory as trees and shrubs fill the space, and logs or dead trees provide critical habitat spaces for wildlife. The woods on the left offer a greater diversity of plant life, wildlife habitat & food.
So what happened with the forest on the right? What is practically a forested desert? Deer foraging on the tender twigs has browsed small trees and shrubs. A lack of disturbance in the forest has created a solid canopy that prevents light from reaching the forest floor, limiting the growth of shade-intolerant oaks and other vital species. We improve these spaces by managing the overpopulation of deer and felling diseased, dying, or poor-quality trees to create gaps in the forest for light to enter.
Sometimes messy spaces are the most productive and abundant spaces!
Day 3 in our 12 Days of Thanks - The Farm Team is celebrating a major success this year by reopening the Farm Stand in the Grange Village! After being closed due to Covid19 restrictions and fluctuations in staffing, the Farm Stand had its grand reopening celebration in May of 2022.
The Farm Stand opened with the 2022 Summer CSA season and had a successful sales run from May to October. Offering a variety of Willowsford farm-fresh produce, eggs, pantry products, and more, the Farm was able to offer the local and convenient shopping experience at the top of the Willowsford Community wish list. The Farm Stand will reopen in the Spring of 2023, and we can't wait for you to stop by and say hi!
Day 2 in our 12 Days of Thanks - Willowsford Conservancy's Annual Bonfire and Camp Event! The Willowsford Conservancy hosted a successful Annual Bonfire and Camp Event this fall! We saw our highest attendance yet, with over 260 attendees and a 50% Camp Over rate. A thank you to our volunteers and Willowsford Team for helping with this annual event! 👏
The Willowsford Farm produced a surplus of food this year, including all sorts of greens, peppers, tomatoes, roots, herbs, and a never-ending bounty of eggs! Most of our crops went into CSA shares, custom orders, and Farm Stand displays, but what about the extra? Throughout the year, we've noted that any unclaimed shares and overabundance would be donated to Loudoun Hunger Relief, a local group dedicated to reducing food insecurity in Loudoun County. We're happy to report that we donated an average of 150 pounds per week of farm fresh produce and eggs that went directly to supporting our local community. More information about Loudoun Hunger Relief and the good that they do can be found on their website: https://www.loudounhunger.org
KT Pizza will be at the Willowsford Boathouse today (Wednesday December 14) from 4pm-6pm! Stop by and enjoy some of their delicious pizza! **photo credit ktpizza.com**
Willowsford Residents!!! Join us today at Winter Wonderland from 11-4ish to taste some of our delicious produce and browse our Farm Stand pop up! **This is a Willowsford HOA event and not open to the public**
Willowsford Residents!!!! Come stop by our Farm Stand pop up from 11-6 at Winter Wonderland! **This is a Willowsford HOA event and not open to the public**
Join us today at the Boathouse today (Thursday Dec. 8th) for holiday decorating from 4pm-6pm! There's a tree to be trimmed with fun for all ages! 🎄
KT Pizza will be joining us at the Boathouse today from 4pm-6pm and in our Farm Stand @ the Grange Parking Lot tomorrow 4pm-6pm!
“I'm strong to the finich, 'cause I eats me spinach, I'm Popeye the sailor man!”
💪🏻 Popeye Pizza: spinach, pancetta, red onion, garlic
📢This weeks schedule:
Tonight Old Ox Brewery 5-8
Wednesday Willowsford Boat House 4-6
Thursday Willowsford Farm Stand 4-6
Friday Solace Brewing Company 3-9
Sunday Grace Life Community Church, Bristow 4:30-8
Happy Thanksgiving from the Willowsford Conservancy Team!
KT Pizza will be in the Farm Stand Parking Lot today from 4pm-6pm! They are looking to add Thursday night with us to their regular schedule, so come by and have a pie to convince them!🍕🍕🍕
***The Farm Stand will not be open for business, and there is no share pick up today***
The second 2022 Winter CSA distribution is today! 🥚🥬🥕
Boathouse 4pm-6pm - KT Pizza will be at the Boathouse!!🍕
Farm Stand in Grange 4pm-6pm
Home Delivery South - Today 12pm-6pm
Home Delivery North - Tomorrow (Nov 17) 12pm-6pm
If you ordered a Harvest Symphony Pie for pickup, our special pie pickup is Saturday Nov. 19! 🥧
Visit our website to learn more about CSA, or shop our seasonal Farm Stand for veggies, eggs, chicken, local pasture-raised meats, dairy, flowers, pantry goods and more.
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Have you seen our Programs and Events calendar on our website? From food trucks at the Farm Stand to classes we offer, you can see all upcoming happenings there! Make sure to go check it out to see everything happening at Willowsford Conservancy 😎 https://willowsfordconservancy.org/programs-events/ #willowsfordlife #willowsford #willowsfordconservancy
Apex Organix is at the Farm Stand today teaching kids about compost, the power of worms, and how they can improve the health of our soil! #willowsfordfarm #willowsfordlife #willowsford
Stop by the Farm Stand today from 4-7 for peak summer produce! Lots of new goodies on the shelves today 🤩 #willowsford #willowsfordlife #willowsfordfarm
Ever seen how onions are cleaned? Farmer Andy shows us how our onion cleaner works to clean over 250 lbs for our CSA members! #willowsfordfarm #willowsford #willowsfordlife
The Farm Stand is OPEN! Children’s story book reading @ 5 PM with Farmer Ben! Blueberries, salad mix and jams are on sale this week!
The Online Farm Store closes today at noon. A few highlights : peaches, organic & pasture raised meat, sweet corn, and more. Home Delivery + Pick Up Available! https://app.barn2door.com/e/946GN/all
Happy Friday from the Farm! The crew just finished moving the chickens to fresh ground and they’re pretty pleased with their new view 🐓
Happy Thursday from the Farm Stand ! Stop by for a sweet treat, dinner from Taco Town and some Farm fresh veggies! Open till 7!
Nothing says summer like tomato trellising! Ben shows us how he sets up a trellis to make tomato harvesting as easy as possible for the crew 🍅
Can't make it to the Farm Stand this week? No worries! Visit our online store to stock up on delicious, healthy food for the week, and we will catch you next time! Click here: https://app.barn2door.com/e/946GN/all willowsford #willowsfordfarm #farmstand #freshproduce #farmfresh #fresheggs #freshherbs #herbs #produce
Happy Saturday morning from the Willowsford Farm Stand! Stop by today between 9 - 1 PM - organic produce, fruit, local cheese, local meat, and more!
It’s a beautiful afternoon for finishing up our second large hoop house! Happy Friday from the Farm team!
It’s a beautiful morning on the Farm! Check out the video to see how the Farm team on-boards the new flock of pasture raised laying hens 🐤
It’s a great day to spend a little time in the greenhouse! Happy Sunday, y’all!
Farming in the Winter Part 1! 🌱 We may not be growing vegetables at this time of the year, but there's still plenty to be done! We have to make sure our land, our equipment, and our plans are in proper order! Farmers have to wear lots of hats to pull off a successful business🎩 We're lucky to have a skillful and knowledgeable Farm team that can grow delicious vegetables AND do the jobs that are typically unseen 👀 We're excited to bring you all delicious produce when May rolls around! If you haven't signed up for our CSA yet, you can register on our website willowsfordconservancy.org/farm Until then, we'll keep working hard 💪 Eat well, be well!
Our first CSA pack of our winter share! We're excited to send our shareholders flavorful root vegetables and sweet winter greens 😋 do you see any of your favorite vegetables?
Do you know what it takes to get garlic from seed to plate?! Farmer Ben does! The farm is planting 500 lbs of seed garlic that will be ready for harvest next July, yum! 😋
Wowza, what a beautiful November day to be harvesting green top carrots! 🥕 Do you want to eat these sweet treats?! We have a handful of winter shares left, join today! https://www.harvie.farm/farm/willowsford-farm/signup
Gabe and crew are happily planting greens in the high tunnel, look for these fresh organic greens in the upcoming winter CSA!
Happy Friday y’all! Here’s a short video of Farmer Andy chatting about high tunnel production.
At Willowsford Farm, we believe that knowing who’s growing your food makes meals meaningful. We grow Certified Organic produce, as well as connections between our Farm-ily members and their community. Our Farm Share program offers three seasons of customized veggie boxes with flexible schedules, multiple pickup locations and payment plans, plus easy online management. Your box is personalized to your taste preferences, which means more of what you do like and nothing you don’t, all season long. Add farm eggs, local milk, pastured meats, and flowers for a one-stop shopping experience filled with local goodness. You’ve never tasted anything as fresh as food harvested that very day, just for you! Everything we do is geared towards making seasonal eating deliciously easy and fun, from culinary classes to farm tours. Will you join us?
https://www.harvie.farm/signup/willowsford-farm
2020 Farm Stand Season:
May 23 - Nov 21
Tuesdays 3 PM - 7 PM
Saturdays 9 AM - 1 PM See you soon!