Living an Eastern Shore Summer means enjoying local, fresh, farm-to-table produce, some of the best produce in the world is right here in our backyard. The Mirror has a page devoted to local produce, but we know people sometimes don’t notice the tabs and links to local goodness at the top of the page. If you are not listed, please drop us a line at capecharlesmirror@gmail.com and we will get you listed. This goes for all local goodness…
Shore Breeze Farms
We’re open 10-5 Monday – Saturday. We offer fresh produce (including our own hydroponic lettuce), fresh meats, VA Finest products, and so much more! Located 3210 Townfield Dr. in Cheriton.
Shockley Farms
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Shockley Farms has a main goal and that is to provide our customers with fresh, naturally grown and local produce.
23184 Seaside Road
Cape Charles, Va 23310
Open Seven Days a Week! 9AM – 8PM
May to December
757-331-1487
Copper Cricket Farm
The Copper Cricket Farm is a small diverse farm located in Machipongo, VA, offering a subscription service for vegetables from April until December each year. All vegetables are grown without pesticides, herbicides or chemical fertilizers. We care for our natural environment by letting the soil, plant and animal biology naturally care for our farm. We use minimal petrochemical inputs by farming intensively using hand labor for all planting and harvesting. Our vegetables are delivered the same day they are picked, ripe and fresh from the vine!
Copper Cricket Farm is a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) with only local customers – which means the Eastern Shore from Kiptopeake to the Maryland line.
Copper Cricket has two drop-off sites in Cape Charles – one on the way into town at what used to be the Therapeutic Massage place/Dentist Office, and the other at the Bayhaven B&B on Thursdays.
You can contact Copper Cricket by Email: copper.cricket.farm@gmail.com
Mattawoman Farms – CSA
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4103 Barlow Creek Lane
P.O. Box 689
Eastville, Virginia 23347-0689
Telephone: 757-678-5731
Email: organic@MattawomanCreekFarms.com
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a program in which consumers support a local farm by subscribing and paying a seasonal fee in exchange for receiving fresh local produce. In our CSA programs, subscribers pick up their portion of the harvest at one of several pickup points.
Pickup Location Options for Our CSA Programs
Cape Charles – Rayfield’s – Wednesdays: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Eastville – On the Farm – Wednesdays: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Nassawadox – Little Italy – Wednesdays: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Onley – Edward’s Seafood – Wednesdays: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Picketts Harbor Farms – Kiptopeeke, Virginia
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Pickett’s Harbor Farms is a family-owned, family-run farm on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Some of our famous local produce includes: peaches, asparagus, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and peppers.
Twitter @PickHarbFarms
Perennial Roots
Our goals and practices are a synthesis of biodynamic rhythms and principles of permanent agriculture. We are committed not only to nominal “sustainable” practices, but to regenerative practices that increase fertility with every season. We use intensive multi-species rotational grazing which keeps our animals healthier and nurtures our soil. We use cover crops to enliven the soil, build carbon, and provide habitat for beneficial insects. We compost as much as we can. Even the weeds are all an integral part of this process of healing the Earth.
Mighty Thundercloud Farms
We believe family and small-holder farms are the key to ensuring global food security and environmental sustainability. We can use our labor more intensively and better manage our resources than larger farms, making us well-positioned to uphold global natural resource management and environmental integrity, rather than degrading it. We can also more easily incorporate organic practices that enhance human health. https://onancockmarket.com/. The online shop is open for orders from Sunday at noon to midnight on Wednesday every week. Your order will be ready and waiting for you to pick it up Saturday morning between 9am and 12pm.
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You might want to consider Van Diesal Farms always at the farmers market in Onancock and if you like Microgreens also check out Microgreens From The Shore usually found at the same location and in most of the sandwiches at your local eatery in Cape Charles
I didn’t know Shore. Breeze was open this year
I heard they weren’t going to open
Editor’s Note: We are not either, but kept them on the list just in case. Great place.