Last Week of Regular Season
Second Chance at Sourdough Disappointed you couldn’t make it to Brian’s last Sourdough 101 class a few weeks ago? Not to worry, Flour District is hosting him again on November 18th!!! Brian is excited to once again show people the magic of baking bread using one of the oldest leavening agents known to man: sourdough. […]
Where We’ll be this Winter
Year-End MarketsOctober generally sees the end of regular season markets. The last day of our 2023 CSA is October 25, the last day for the Forest Farmers Market is October 28th and while the Lynchburg Community Market is generally year-long, there is a sharp drop off of vendors in attendance after October. Because of this […]
Corn and the Cold
Corn Harvest!These last two weeks we have started harvesting our flint corn varieties and we are happy with the results thus far! Flint corn varieties are different than the corn you may be used to having on the dinner table. The cobs have a very hard kernel and can come in many different colors. Rather than […]
Slithering into Fall
Save the Snakes!Though we’ve always seen snakes slithering around the farm, this year our snake population seems to have exploded! We have at least one hanging around our greenhouse who we first spotted slithering its way underneath our seedling trays. We also spotted THREE curled up along our seed garden. As is the norm, our […]
Some Sweetener for Sour News
What is Sorghum?It’s a product you may find at your local farmers market or you see on our bread’s ingredient list. Sorghum, pronounced sor-gm, is a sweetener that is able to be grown locally. Often compared to molasses, it is a syrup deriving from the Sorghum plant. Originally from Africa, Sorghum arrived in the US […]
August Update with an Explosion of Color
What’s going on? August is generally the hottest month of the year. You may find yourself asking, what is it we do in the heat and in the midst of summer? Harvesting is usually the task which takes up the majority of our time this season. With rows of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, okra, squash and […]
More Bread and More Soil
The Flour District DistributionWe are happy to announce we are now making multiple deliveries to the Flour District every week! This way, you can get our bread from Wednesday through Sunday on Bedford Avenue in Lynchburg! The types of bread will vary, but no matter what you can expect great sourdough to be available. We are so excited […]
Bloomin’ Flowers and Burstin’ Tomatoes
Flowers are Bloomin’Our flower field is taking off and it doesn’t just have the butterflies buzzin’. Our bouquets are harvested multiple times a week at peak bloom before becoming unique bouquets. Our bouquets are created individually by each of our farm hands. If you get to know us well enough, you may be able to […]
Happy 4th of July!
Shade TunnelWe are happy to have a new shade cloth stretched across our Caterpillar Tunnel for the rest of the summer season! We are hoping this shade cloth will allow us to grow greens throughout the heat of the summer. A lot of greens, like head lettuce, lettuce mix, kale, etc. are not big fans […]
Restoring Restoration
Restoring Restoration!We are so very excited to announce Restoration Acres will again be using our Wednesday Rookie’s Farm Stand as an order-pick up site! Just like last year, you will be able to pre-order vegetables, bread AND meat for pickup all in one location! So long big chain grocery store, we’re shopping local all week […]