Please join us for the third annual Taste of the Farm event!

Local Food Hub invites you to spend a Saturday on the farm! Join us for our favorite spring plant sale and open house at the Educational Farm at Maple Hill. The event will run from 10:00am through 3:00 pm.

Grab your boots, bring the kids and prepare to:

• Pick up some organic and heirloom plant starts for your garden! Tomatoes, peppers, herbs, flowers, and more!
• Paint a mural and plant sunflowers with City Schoolyard Garden.
• Pick up some farm fresh produce and eggs at our farmer’s market.
• Hop in the photobooth and say CHEESE with Eze Amos Photography!
• Make some music with Blue Ridge Music Together.
• Enjoy delicious eats from Greenies & Rebecca’s Natural Food.
• Check out the animals brought to you by Best of What’s Around.
• More to come!!

Directions:
The farm is located at 7129 Scottsville Road, Scottsville VA, 24590.

From the I-64 / 20S intersection (exit 121): Take Route 20 South towards Scottsville for approximately 15 miles. The Farm is located approximately 2.5 miles past Green Mountain Country Store, on the right. You’ll see signs! Please use caution when turning in the driveway! People often drive very fast on Route 20, and the driveway is a bit of a blind turn. Use your signal early and often!

Questions: info@localfoodhub.org or (434) 286-2176.

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Carl Tinder works as a cattle farmer and vineyard manager in Earlysville. In 2008 he approached Local Food Hub about growing potatoes in quantity “as a side project”. Carl grew up in Crozet, and (coincidentally or not) worked as a teenager in the very same field where he grows potatoes now. This loose, loamy Rivanna bottomland was cultivated in sweet corn by Henry Chiles; Carl remembers pulling an overhead irrigator across the 65-acre field, and harvesting bushel bags of sweet corn for local and regional markets.

Nowadays he sees potatoes as a complement to the standard row crop rotation used for growing fodder for cattle, and a great potential ‘side project’ for landowners and land managers. Of 2011, he says “I reckon I’ll plant potatoes every week from the first of March right on through — 33,000 linear feet by the time we’re through.” He scratches his head as he looks at his farm truck across the huge field – it looks like a toy in the distance. “We might be through before we get that far,” he says with a smile.