We are located 5 minutes from downtown Hillsville, 35 minutes from Mt. Airy, NC, 40 minutes from Floyd, VA and an hour from Blacksburg, VA. We grow between 4 and 6 acres of vegetables for two bustling farmer’s market and our online farm store (pick-ups on the farm). Our crew consists of us (Mike and Hailey—with tagalong kiddos) and 3 full time employees and 1-2 part-time employees.

We grow year-round with a focus on storage crops for the winter and harvest greens and other veggies every week of the year. We are more mechanized than some farms our scale and less mechanized than others. Most of our acreage is in tractor cultivation, though we plant by hand using jab transplanters. A small, but not insignificant portion of our farm (2/3 acre) is in no-till production. Our no-till garden is where we grow “high turnover” crops like salad greens and some roots using mostly hand tools. We take a pretty hands-off approach in the garden and use tarps, earthworms, microbiology and time to do a lot of the bed flipping between crops. The hands-on work in the garden includes cultivating, weeding, planting and harvesting. We also have a number of high tunnels where we grow greens in the winter and trellised crops (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant) in the summer.