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Buy from Local Farmers
Encouraging schools, colleges, churches,
& stores to buy from local farmers
Nearby Farmers' Markets
Wednesday 4-7 Shepherdstown
opposite Sheetz May-Sep
Thursday 4-7 Route 340, BB&T parking lot across 340 from Wal*Mart
May-Oct
Saturday 9-12 Charles Town, Bank of Charles Town parking lot, 111 E.Washington St, Late
April-Oct
Saturday 9-12 Berryville Dollar store on S
Church St.
Saturday 10-12 Shepherdstown post office, Washington St. Year round
Sunday 9:30-1 Shepherdstown
behind library,
King St. Apr-Dec
Loudoun farms
distant
farmers' markets
Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers & More
Bardane Country
Market, March-Dec weekends (full time July-Oct) Rt 9 south of Kearneysville WV
304-725-1100
Franklin, Je18-Ag1 old 340 south of Charles Town WV 304-725-7994
Fruit
& Veggie Market, spring-fall, often daily, Rt. 340 and Country Club Road NE
of Charles Town, corn, tomatoes, green beans, flowers, peaches, apples
Jefferson Greenhouse wholesale herbs, Middleway WV 304-725-4706
Jefferson Orchards, Jy15-De24 Rt 9 south of Kearneysville WV 304-725-9149
(also bakery)
Middleway Farm, seasonal bedding such as vegetable plants, hanging
baskets, herbs, and cut flowers. Flowers for weddings.
Ridgefield,
Jy15-Ja31 Kidwiler Rd east of Halltown WV 304-876-3647 (also Christmas
trees, farm tours)
Southwood,
Ap1-Oc1 Kearneysville WV 304-876-7080 (also eggs, herbs, honey)
Smith's Market, Summer Tue-Sun 10-5, Rt 340, S of Charles Town, 304-725-1996 (common & uncommon vegetables, herbs, hanging baskets)
Tudor Hall
, Rt 51 between Charles Town & Middleway WV 304-725-3149 (also eggs,
poultry)
Uvilla Orchard
, Je1-Se15, WV Rt 230, 304-876-3437 (also eggs)
Walnut Hill, Ap1-Oc1, Country Club Rd at Rt 340, WV, 304-725-7110 (also flowers, herbs)
Fruits & vegetables by weekly subscription - Community-Supported Agriculture
Distant Fruit & Vegetables
Potomac Vegetable Farms 9627 Leesburg Pike, Vienna VA 22182, also CSA (703)
759-2119
Virginia Wines
Links
Nutrition
School food issues
Learn to eat Soybeans , a major local crop, & buy from a WV tofu
producer
Sales potential of Christmas trees, fruits & other alternate crops
Donate venison
to hungry
Meat
D & D Meats, Rt 51 east side of Inwood WV
304-229-5164
Prairy Hill , WV Rt 17 south of Y, 304-876-8448 (poultry, eggs)
Fertile Plains, Rt 45 between Shepherdstown & Martinsburg WV 304-267-7755
Woodlawn Farm, Thur+Fri 8-5, Sat 7-noon, east of Sharpsburg MD 301-432-6425
Bison
(American Buffalo), Madison VA 540-948-4209
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How to Buy a Quarter, Half or Whole Beef. If you want a quarter or half, ask the farmer to put you on a waiting list until others come along to take the rest of the animal. If you want a quarter you don't have to choose front or hind quarter: you can get half of all the cuts on that side of the animal. Options in red.
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Tabb 304-725-4325 Jefferson Co WV
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Stine 304-876-2009 Jefferson Co WV
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Ripon Lodge Farm 304-725-6670 Jefferson Co WV
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Headwater Farms 304-822-5628, Eight farms in Hampshire Co WV. Click to learn about their work on stream protection.
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When is it available?
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intermittent all year
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May-Oct
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Oct-Nov
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Aug, Oct-March
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Typical age in months, when slaughtered. |
16-18
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15-18
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15-18
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10
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Typical live weight, pounds
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1150-1300
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1000-1200
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1100
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750
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Typical hanging weight (after removing hide, blood, guts, hooves, etc. which the slaughterhouse keeps).
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62%
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62%
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62%
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Typical cut weight to take home (after removing leg bones, all but ¼ inch of fat, etc.) Weight depends if you want bones on your steaks. If you take out all bones & fat, meat is about 50% of hanging wt, or 30% of live wt.
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50% of live wt; 80% of hanging wt
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45% of live wt; 70-75% of hanging wt
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32% of live wt; 240 pounds
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You can request tongue, liver, kidney, heart, brains, sweetbreads (thymus gland), & tripe (stomach lining), which are about 30 pounds (3%) of a whole animal, in addition to the hanging weight. You can keep bones (for dogs or soups), and trimmed-off fat. You can also keep ½ inch fat on each cut.
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Typical price per pound charged by farmer
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$0.92 on live wt, delivered to slaughterhouse
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$2.60 on hanging wt. Includes cutting, wrapping, freezing. Get at farm or slaughterhouse
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$2.25 on hanging wt. Includes cutting, wrapping, freezing. Get at farm or slaughterhouse
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Typical cost to slaughter, cut to your desire, wrap, freeze. Butcher disposes of hide & waste.
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$25+.35/lb or $29+.38/lb on hanging wt
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Estimated average consumer cost per pound, cut to your desire, wrapped, & frozen (remember to add cost of running your freezer for the months you eat the beef). Compare US retail cost.
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$2.32 at butcher
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$3.25 at farm or butcher
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$2.92 at farm or butcher
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$4.58-$5 in Romney; add $0.73 for shipping
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Typical cut weight from 1/4 of animal, in pounds
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144-160
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125-150
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120
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60. They'll also sell 15.
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Typical hamburger as % of cut wt. (this is from trimmings too small to be useful for much else)
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50%
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50%
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30%
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50%
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Basic choices about cutting include: (Blue shows typical pounds from a quarter of a 1000-lb animal, excluding (a) trimmed fat/bone, and (b) trimmed meat that becomes 50 lbs of hamburger.) *Cubed steaks can be used for Swiss steak or cut into fajitas. Butcher typically hangs beef 7 days before cutting, to increase flavor & tenderness. You can request 14 days. You can get some or all the meat unfrozen if you'll eat it soon.
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Feed (none of these uses poultry litter )
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grass, grain
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grass, silage, ground corn
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grass, local corn & soya beans
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grass, with grain supplement for weaning
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Added hormones? All animals have natural hormones. This question refers to implanted hormones, which can raise weight by 10-13%. Some consumers worry about eating beef raised with added hormones .
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no
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no
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no
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no
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Antibiotics? Many large scale herds have low levels of antibiotics added to animal feed. Some consumers worry about this creating antibiotic-resistant bacteria , so antibiotics will be less useful for human health.
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no. Sick animals are treated, tagged, not sold retail.
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only on sick animals
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no. Herd small, so generally don't get sick
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no. Sick animals are treated, tagged, not sold retail.
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Systemic insect repellent, injected
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no
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Worming medicine
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yes
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Breed
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Red Angus & cross
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Black Angus , registered
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Angus & cross
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hamburger is 20% fat, rest is less
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cut meat is less than 8% fat
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Butchers in Washington County MD include Hoffman
301-739-2332, Horst, 301-733-1089, Woodlawn 301-432-6425. They have order forms
to help you choose how you want your meat cut. Note that older, grain-fed
animals may be larger, fatter, more tender, and cut weight will be smaller
percent of live weight, because more fat is cut off.
Food & Flowers by Subscription: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Generally you join in February-April, for weekly
deliveries all summer. If they get cancellations, you can start later.
Blueberry Hill, Clear Spring, MD 21722, Washington county, MD, not
operating in 2001, 301-842-2870, 301-842-1191
Blue Ridge Center for
Environmental Stewardship , 11661 Harpers Ferry
Road, Purcellville, VA 20132 delivery in Shepherdstown 877-661-1127
540-668-7640
Blue Ridge Food Coop, at Piedmont Episcopal Church, Madison VA,
membership $30+$15/week, organic, 4-6 Thurs 540-923-4131
Bull Run Mountain Organic Farm , Fauquier County VA, 703-754-4005
Ehrhardt Organic Farm, 1032 Hoffmaster Road,
Knoxville MD 21758, happy_veggies2006@yahoo.com
240-446-2889
Fresh and Local POB 3047, Shepherdstown, WV 25443
Great Country Farms, 18780 Foggy Bottom Road, Bluemont, VA 20135,
540-554-2073 (also pick-your-own)
House-in-the-Woods , 2104 Mt. Ephram Road, Adamstown, MD 21710,
Sugarloaf mtn, 301-607-4048
Potomac Vegetable Farms, see
"Vegetables" above
Red Wiggler Foundation , 25214 Peachtree Road, Clarksburg, MD 20871
301-916-4133
Sunnyside
Farm, Rt 340 south of Charles Town, 304-725-1996
Sycamore Spring Farm Frederick MD
21703 301-788-6980. 15 or 24 week CSA program. Two levels of participation 1-
produce only. 2- includes meat and dairy products from the farm. Full produce
only share $25.00 per week. Half shares available.
Waterpenny Farm , 12093 Lee Highway, Sperryville, Rappahannock county VA
22740, 540-987-8567
If you grow what you sell, in eastern WV,
northeastern VA or western MD, click here to join this list at no charge.
Other Links:
Eastern panhandle
conservation district
USDA
Appalachian fruit research station
Kearneysville tree
fruit research & education center (WVU)