by nick | Nov 15, 2021 | Holidays, Loudoun Farms News & Events, Loudoun Farms Posts, Take Loudoun Home
Rebecca Brouwer is always up before the sun at Shepherds Corner Farm. It’s essential to her creative process. Rising to meet the day from her farmhouse in Purcellville, Va., Brouwer grabs her flashlight and makes the morning commute—about a minute’s walk across the...
by nick | Aug 1, 2021 | Loudoun Farms News & Events, Loudoun Farms Posts, Marketplace Spotlight, Take Loudoun Home
Unusual Inspiration for Double 8 Alpaca Ranch Like most people who start an alpaca ranch, Doug Kittrell was inspired by a call to the plumber. Wait, what? In the early 2000s, Doug and Bonnie Kittrell were living in New Jersey. They needed plumbing work done and got a...
by nick | Jul 25, 2021 | Loudoun Farms News & Events, Loudoun Farms Posts, Marketplace Spotlight, Take Loudoun Home
She prefers her Loudoun Made Loudoun Grown-branded ballcap, a Long Stone Farm version, or one supporting a fellow rural business in Loudoun County’s bustling economy, but one thing is certain: Casey Wisch wears a lot of hats. Literally and figuratively. Casey...
by nick | Jul 2, 2021 | Loudoun Farms News & Events, Loudoun Farms Posts, Marketplace Spotlight
“A lot of these folks haven’t really been given chances. Our society hasn’t given them the opportunities that it could or should.” (The Winchester Star, 2019) Greg Masucci and his wife Maya Wechsler are on a mission with their nonprofit farm, A Farm Less...
by nick | Apr 5, 2021 | Loudoun Farms News & Events, Loudoun Farms Posts, Take Loudoun Home
Loudoun Economic Development and the Loudoun County Public School’s School Nutrition Services office announced the starting lineup of local farmers featured in this year’s deck of Farmer Trading Cards, distributed to elementary school students across the county. This...
