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    • Spring
      • General Admission
      • Bluemont in Bloom
      • Tulip Days
      • Strawberry Jubilee Fest
      • Raising Chicks Program
      • Easter Egg Hunt – Sold out for the 2026 Season
      • Bunny Brunch
      • Adult Egg Hunt
    • Summer
      • Color the Coop Fun Run
      • Father’s Day Fishing Contest
      • Teacher Appreciation Days
      • Pickle Fest- It’s a Big Dill!
      • Summer of Sunflowers
      • Peach Fuzztival
      • The Big Dig – Potato Harvest + Touch a Truck
      • Back to School Bash
      • Doxie Derby – Rescue Race
      • The Watermelon Bash
    • Fall
      • Sept Apples + Corn Maze
        • First Responders Days
      • Family Flashlight Corn Maze Nights
      • Oct. Adult Corn Maze Nights
      • Pumpkin Picking Fall Fest
      • Pumpkin Chunkin’
      • LOCO Cider Fest
    • Winter
      • Baby Dino Days
      • Winter Indoor Play
      • Breakfast with Santa
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Bee Still Egg Comparison

March 23, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Note: Bee Still Farmette is our only service point in the Manassas area. Chelsea here from Bee Still Farmette. I’ve decided to trade in my farm boots for a lab […]

Filed Under: Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: Bee Still Farmette, confinement eggs, free-range eggs

Post-Workout Recovery Tips

March 22, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Round Hill resident and CSA member Sara Lewis works with us on the committee that runs the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce Healthy Business Challenge. She’ll be sponsoring our Diaper Derby […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures Tagged With: Mix Fitness, Personal Trainers, Sara Lewis

Delicious Animal-free Eating

March 21, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Marla was strategically positioned beside us at the Chicks Picks pop-up show last weekend, and it didn’t take us long to figure out that we should be working together. In […]

Filed Under: Eat, Local Farming Tagged With: Healthy Chicks, LAJ Foods, Whole-plane eating

CSA Greetings from Roof Garden Gal

March 7, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

CSA member Emily Landsman, the driving force behind the Rhodes Hill group site, is a small-scale urban farmer who chronicles her agricultural experiences at roofgardengal.com. Emily’s  acreage is limited, so […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Local Farming Tagged With: roofgardengirl, Rooftop gardening, urban gardening

What Are Pulses?

March 1, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

A couple of years ago, members of the Food and Agriculture Organization at the United Nations were brainstorming ways to help millions of hungry people get more decent food, and […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: chickpeas, garbanzo beans, International Year of Pulses, legumes, pulses

What We’re Eating: Beans and Greens

February 18, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

I started eating beans like thirty years ago because this girl served lentils and rice for dinner one night, and I wanted her to like me, so I started making […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: beans, Beans and Greens, chronic illnesses, diet and chronic disease, diet and health, How Not to Die, Rancho Gordo

About Eating Plants

February 15, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

This winter we farmers have been reading a book with a catchy title: How Not to Die, by Michael Greger, M.D. This excerpt from the Preface shows why the book […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: Dr. Michael Greger, healing foods, How Not to Die, lifestyle medicine, reversing heart disease, Whole food plant-based diet

Making Albariño

February 1, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

If the complicated world of wine, with its weirdly-named varietals and strange descriptions — like, how can wine be dry? or have a nose? — has ever mystified you, consider […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Local Farming, On Foggy Bottom Road Tagged With: albariño, Bentonite, female wine-makers, Galicia, Jennifer Shailor, Lindsey Aymond, Loudoun wind making

Hailey’s Bean Salad

February 1, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

The bean salad we enjoyed at Meredith’s going away party came from a book called Plant Pure Nation, which is the practical companion to a film detailing what happened to people […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Eat Tagged With: plant-based diet, PlantPure Nation, The China Study, Veganism

Farm Table in Winter

January 12, 2016 by Kate Zurschmeide

Seems like a cosmic lesson: I’ve just fallen in love with eating food right out of the ground — that broccoli! those beets! — and now there isn’t anymore? Seasonalism […]

Filed Under: Big Pictures, Local Farming Tagged With: Cold frames, cold weather gardening, Honey Brook Farms, kale, Leesburg Farmers Market, Quarterbranch Farm, Seasonal eating, Shenandoah Seasonal, Winter farming, winter greens

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Kids can dig in the Giant Sandbox, swing, sock skate and visit with the bouncy animals while the grownups enjoy a coffee and cider donuts.

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  • Bakery & Play Area Open Daily 9am-5pm
  • Cut your Own Tulips Coming April 7 -17, 2026!

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