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Star Hollow Farm is a small-scale organic vegetable farm located in south-central Pennsylvania, 100 miles north of Washington, DC, in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. We grow a wide range of produce, mostly in small quantities, but about an acre each of potatoes and winter squash, on about 15 or so acres. The vegetables are grown side-by-side as well as in rotation with grass and legume cover crops, to improve and fertilize the soil, and lessen insect and disease pressure. We have a flock of 150 laying hens (plus a lucky rooster) that live in a large henhouse, with free access to a quarter-acre pasture. The eggs are not organic, but all of our cropland and other production is certified organic by Pennsylvania Certified Organic (PCO).

We sell about half of our produce over the web, through our ONLINE FARMER'S MARKET & CSA, an equal amount at the Adams Morgan Farmers' Market in Washington, DC, and a small amount -- mostly potatoes and winter squash -- through our cooperative, Tuscarora Organic Growers (TOG). At both our outdoor market and online we sell local organic vegetables from our farm and our Co-op; some local but not organic produce (mostly tree fruit from nearby orchards); and various additional items such as cheese, honey, syrup, cider, preserves, some organic and some not, but all locally produced.

Photo: Our greenhouse in winter.