Get in touch with Shenandoah Valley food sources when you tour and experience the farms of Augusta County. Robust flavors, beautiful flowers, and friendly animals you can interact with are engaging touchpoints for all ages.
Harmony Harvest Farms | Weyers Cave
Glorious fresh cut flowers are easily at hand at Harmony Harvest Farms. Tours are available Thursdays and Saturdays during the growing season for anyone interested in the intricacies of flower farming. Workshops for flower arranging and more are frequent.
- Flower Fair, July 15
- Field to Vase Dinner, Aug 12
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1 Tribe Farm | Mount Sidney
It’s all about healing and restoration at 1 Tribe Farm. Get in touch with food as medicine and learn about regeneration of the land through the collaborative use of animals and rotational grazing. Their stock includes pigs, cattle, chickens, and bees – all working in tandem to keep the soil in great order and themselves happy, healthy, and producing.
Stay the night in a comfortable cabin to restore yourself
Star B Stables | Staunton
Get a little wind in your hair with a trail ride at Star B Stables. No experience is necessary. Reservations are required; rides are offered Wednesday through Sunday.
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Barren Ridge Vineyards | Fishersville
This fourth-generation farm in Augusta County began as an apple orchard but is now the bountiful Barren Ridge Vineyards. Open daily and offering small plates to pair with their award winning wines, Barren Ridge is pet friendly and hosts musicians weekly.
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Inn at MeadowCroft | Swoope
Get your hands dirty during the day at the working farm of Inn at MeadowCroft. Sleep in one of the three lovingly restored log cabins for the night. It’s a one-of-a-kind experience in the Shenandoah Valley, and one you won’t soon forget. Guests have 300 acres at their disposal for exploring and luxury accommodations awaiting them when the day is done.
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Polyface Farm | Swoope
Polyface Farm is a story of renewal – of the land and of agricultural practices. The Salatin family turned a thoroughly worn and depleted farm into one of the Shenandoah Valley’s leading clean producers. Through rotational grazing, a passion for the scant earthworm, and complete transparency, Polyface is a healed farm and a farm that heals.
Project GROWS
Project GROWS is focused on improving children’s health through gardening and access to healthy foods. The farm offers hands-on learning through field trips and a summer camp, but the part where you come in is this: volunteers are always needed. Joining Project GROW for a day will greatly impact the lives of local children and will most likely improve yours as well.
“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.”
– Alfred Austin
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WWOOF
If you’re not familiar with the acronym WWOOF, you’re not alone. Allow us to introduce you to World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, a very cool way to connect with likeminded folks to work toward one goal: sustainable living.
In Augusta County there are three participating host farms hoping to find WWOOFers for weeks to a month or more at a time. While you stay with them and help on the farm, they feed and house you. It’s an excellent way to give back, give to yourself, and enhance life in general.
Discover more farm experiences in Augusta County this summer.
Header image courtesy of 1 Tribe Farm.