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A Visit to Willowsford Farm

Willowsford Farm is full of life and bursting with color during the summer months. You can visit the 2,000 acres of conservation land located in Ashburn, Virginia and enjoy the farm stand. While you are there taking a look at the fresh produce, you can also walk through the pick-your-own garden. 300 acres is dedicated to vegetables and livestock farming operations. I was lucky enough to take a tour during the Washington D.C. Garden Bloggers Fling. If you are in the area, Willowsford Farm is open May to December. Until then, enjoy this photo tour with me!

Mike Snow, who is the director of farm operations, giving us an introduction of Willowsford Farm.

Who doesn't love a good farm dog?

"The Farm Stand is open early-May through December on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Nearly everything that we put into our CSA shares is available for sale a la carte alongside products from other local farms and artisans who operate with the same principles for environmental health that we do."

Bloggers mingling by the farm stand

Pick-Your-Own Garden

Butterfly Milkweed - Asclepias tuberosa

Coneflower - Echinacea

Heading to the Farm Garden

Meeting the geese

"Each season, we welcome several hundred laying hens, mostly Red Sexlinks or Hiline Browns, to our farm, where they forage fresh pastures and fallow vegetable fields by day, and tuck into their mobile coops each night."

Touring The Greenhouses

Calabash a.k.a. Bottle Gourds

Getting to taste test some fresh lettuce.

Tasting delicious Cape gooseberries.

"Freshly harvested greens, ripe tomatoes, new potatoes and certified naturally-grown flowers fill our tables."

So cool seeing Yellow Ginger growing. I've always wanted to try growing ginger.

Touring the greenhouses.

"If you are looking for a more local option to purchasing produce, I highly recommend Willowsford CSA. You have the ability of meeting your farmer and all the other farm hands that get your weekly shares ready each week for you pick-up. In addition, they provide you with excellent newsletters letting you know what you can expect to receive each week and how to consume it. The shares are generous, which gives you the opportunity to freeze or can a few batches for winter."

Thanks for touring with me! I hope you can visit soon!

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February 8, 2019 By Angie Rose

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parker

March 5, 2019 at 5:14 am

Wow, looks epic. This post is giving me serious wanderlust. Would definitely go. Thanks for sharing this post.

David Elliott

February 12, 2019 at 6:30 pm

It does look pretty amazing out there at the farm. I love people who can do this and work with the earth and put together beautiful gardens and can grow things. So nice. I’d love to visit.

Sheena Moncatar

February 12, 2019 at 3:15 am

“Freshly harvested greens, ripe tomatoes, new potatoes and certified naturally-grown flowers fill our tables.” – This will be my kind of tour and relaxation. It’s not always that we get to experience this.

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