District of Columbia

• The following farms or ranches are located in the area surrounding the District of Columbia. View our Eatwild District of Columbia map to find the farm or ranch nearest you.
• Find local restaurants, markets and stores that feature grass-fed products on our District of Columbia Beyond the Farm page.

At Good Fork Foods, we know our meat from beginning to end.

Lovingly raised by Julie Bolton of Groff's Content Farm in Rocky Ridge, Maryland, or similar farms in southeastern Pennsylvania, our meat is organically raised, local and grass-fed and finished resulting in tasty, lean meat. No hormones or antibiotics are used.

Transported for less than an hour and a half, the animals are slaughtered, butchered and USDA inspected at George Ruppersberger and Sons in Baltimore.

A typical box of lamb contains 7-9 pounds. A typical box of beef contains 23-25 pounds. Boxes consist of a variety of mixed cuts which are frozen and wrapped for freezer storage. Cuts are individually wrapped, labeled and marked with weights.

Lamb boxes include: leg roast, loin chops, shanks and ground lamb. (Some boxes may also contain: lamb breast, shoulder roast, rib chops and stew meat.)

Beef boxes include a mix of the following cuts: porterhouse steaks, t-bone steaks, sirloin steaks & tips, round steaks & roasts, rump roast, flank steak, ground beef and stew meat. (Some boxes may also
contain: shoulder steak & roast, chuck steak & roast, ribeye steak, brisket, french roast, breast deckel, short rib & prime rib.)

Good Fork Foods, Devora Kimelman-Block, 7981 Eastern Avenue, #216, Silver Spring, MD  20910. (917) 864-7965. E-mail: devora@kolfoods.com. Website: http://www.kolfoods.com/goodforkfoods

Nick's Organic Farm raises tender delicious angus grassfed beef. Our certified organic herd grazes in the fertile Frederick Valley. Since 1979, we have been committed to quality organic products and constant improvement in our farming methods. We constantly conduct on-farm research with federal, state and non-profit agencies to refine our organic practices. We cooperate with USDA's Agricultural Research Service to breed and manage our herd organically so that it has maximum natural resistance to disease without the use of synthetic chemicals. We also participate in a university study documenting the nutritional advantages of grassfed beef.

Our organic beef are never fed grain, hormones or antibiotics. We sell whole, half, split halves, and smaller quantities, Soon we hope to offer specific cuts. Our beef is aged over two weeks, and it is cut and frozen in a USDA inspected facility.

Available at our processor or from our farms in Buckeystown or Potomac, MD, our organic beef is convenient to Washington-Baltimore, Northern Virginia, and Frederick-Hagerstown customers. Our products are also available through the organic Mountains to Bay CSA with several locations in central Maryland.

Visit our farms. Inquire about our apprenticeship opportunities and organic CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture).

Nick's Organic Farm, Nick Maravell, 8565 Horseshoe Lane, Potomac MD 20854 (301) 983-2167 (main office), 2733 Buckeystown Pike, Adamstown MD 21710 (301) 874-3168.

Smith Meadows Free-Range Meats, located near Winchester, VA, offers free-range, grass-fed beef, pork, veal, goat, lambs, and eggs. We also offer turkey seasonally, as well as certified organic handmade pastas. Products are available year-round, by the cut, frozen, vacuum packaged, and USDA-inspected. Our on-farm store is located 60 miles west of the Washington D.C. beltway. Please visit our website for directions.

Additionally, we attend the following farmers markets in the Washington D.C. area:

• Arlington Courthouse: Saturdays, 8–Noon, year-round
• Takoma Park: Sundays, 10 am to 2 pm, year-round
• Del Ray/Alexandria: Saturdays, 8–Noon, April through early December.

Smith Meadows Free-Range Meats, Forrest or Nancy Pritchard, 568 Smithfield Lane, Berryville VA 22611. (877) 955-4389.
E-mail: info@smithfieldfarm.com
Website: http://www.smithmeadows.com

SunnySide Up Farm provides pastured chickens six months of the year (during warm weather) with sales on the farm and at area Farmers' Markets, including Fredericksburg, Richmond 17th St., West Point, and Irvington.

In addition to chickens, Pearce and Lori Gardner raise pastured turkeys for Thanksgiving, pastured geese for Christmas, and pastured pork and rose veal. All the animals are fed Fertrell's supplements and feed formulas, which contain no antibiotics, hormones, or animal by-products. All grains used are certified non-genetically modified.

SunnySide Up Farm, Pearce and Lori Gardner, 558 Bowlers Road, Tappahannock VA 22560. (804) 443-1010.  E-mail: bwana@inna.net  
Website: http://users.inna.net/~bwana/    Farm E-mail Newsletter: http://www.egroups.com/group/SunnySide_Up_Farm

True Ewe Farm is a small, seasonal, grass-based sheep farm located in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, about an hour outside of Washington, DC. We produce natural, grassfed lamb and (coming in 2008) artisan farmstead sheep's milk cheeses.

We are dedicated to following sustainable and humane agricultural practices to produce high quality foods from Virginia's fine mountain meadow grasses.

Our lamb is tender, full of flavor and healthy for you. All our lambs are raised on the farm’s pasture salad – a local blend of native herbs, clover and grasses. They receive no antibiotics or growth-promoting hormones, and you never have to worry about animal byproducts in their diet.

We employ intensive rotational grazing, which allows us to fulfill the sheep's natural desire to graze on the freshest feed possible and to naturally fertilize the land.

We lamb once a year, so the supply is limited. Currently, we sell only whole lambs and half lambs. Intimidated by buying that much lamb? Don't be. Check out the “FAQ” section on our web site.

We invite you to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Eat Local! Eat True!

True Ewe farm, Kim Duty, 767 Zachary Taylor Highway, Flint Hill VA  22627. (540) 675-3387. E-mail: Kim@TrueEwe.com.
Website: http://www.TrueEwe.com.

West Wind Farm produces grass-finished MOUNTAIN PASTURED BEEF. Our beautiful mountain farm is located near Grassy Meadows in Greenbrier County, WV. We market our beef in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. (See website for more inforrmation about delivery locations.)

Our Black Angus steers are finished for 5–6 months on our farm's rich grass and clover pastures, supplemented only with a natural kelp mineral mix. We feed no hormones, antibiotics, steroids, animal byproducts, GM feeds, or grain. We lead the animals to fresh pastures every one to three days. We do not send them to feedlots. Our steers are processed by a respected, family-owned, custom slaughterhouse in Lewisberg, WV. We believe in managing our animals gently and our pastures organically, for the optimum health of our environment, our animals, and our consumers.

In winter and spring, MOUNTAIN PASTURED BEEF is available in 10–12 lb. mixed-cut sampler packets and/or 2-pound (8 patties) hamburger packs. In summer we invite advance orders for custom-butchered halves or split halves (quarters) for fall delivery. All our meat is USDA inspected, aged for at least 2 weeks, and flash frozen.

For ordering details, see our West Wind Farm website: http://www.westwindfarm.biz or contact Martha Holdridge:
E-mail martha@holdridge.org; telephone (301) 229-2813.