Producer

Our tight-knit group consists of about seven farmers from nearby as well as a few from further east in Big Valley, PA. Our manager, David Wengerd has been involved since he was a teenager. Stewardship of the land guides every decision-- caring for the soil is a calling, not an obligation. Rooted in cooperative principals and Amish traditions, the farmstead relies on human-scaled efficiency over digital automation. We have a heavy emphasis on ingenuity for our farms and the centralized warehouse space where we aggregate, wash, and pack endless bins of beautiful produce.  

Each winter we flood their parking lot to create 12-inch thick ice that they cut and stack inside of their walk-in cooler areas, creating a reliable and very low-cost cooling system that we can use year-round. We also custom-built a produce washing assembly that allows us to float heavy items, like winter squash, out of picking bins and into a spray wash without having to hand touch the squash one by one. When you are growing and selling hundreds of thousands of pounds of produce, that automation is a big deal. To top it off, the water we use for our produce cleaning is filtered from a mountain stream that flows on the hillside behind our facility. Additionally we have both USDA Organic certification as well as harmonized GAP certification making us one of the best in ethical farming and food safe practices.