Author: Derek

Shout out to Doug Taylor, owner of Paragon Electric, LLC for assisting us with an electric service install for our up-and-coming greenhouse. We asked him to run 100 Amps from our house breaker box out to the greenhouse and he got it all done over the course of 3 days. No nonsense and professional… I’d highly recommend him for your electrical needs. And a high five to Sunshine Honey Farm down the street from us for posting about Paragon’s work on their greenhouse a year or two ago… I specifically called Paragon thanks to that post!

I’m hoping to add a water line to this same trench this coming weekend which will take water from an outside house spigot, run in the trench across the yard to within a few feet of the greenhouse, then be accessible via hydrant. The bottom of the trench is 2 feet below grade, which may or may not be below frost line (need to google it some more to really be sure). I’ve ordered an adapter which we can screw onto one end of the line to allow us to blow out any residual water to mitigate damage from freezing.

Generally aiming to have this greenhouse up and running before the market starts back up in April. Ideally producing something on the order of 30 pounds of lettuce a week initially, but we’ll see how things go. We’re hoping to provide plenty of lettuce for the market in 2025.

The farmer’s market season is winding down and just wanted to update on end-of-season plans. There are 4 Saturday markets left: 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, and 11/23. Pennington Market Farm plans to attend all 4. After that, I believe there will be a mid-December holiday market, which we won’t be attending… and then a weekly winter market starting in January 2025, which we also don’t plan to attend. So after 11/23, our next market will likely be April 2025.

A big thanks to everyone who has come by our stand this season! It’s been a great year. I’ve been slowly getting our new lettuce greenhouse built and I am hopeful that we’ll have plenty of lettuce mix at the market in the 2025 season. We also just got a batch of 9 baby chicks which are claimed to lay a variety of different colored eggs (including blues and greens), so roughly 6 months from now we’ll see what we get!

If we don’t see you between now and Nov 23rd, want to wish you a happy holiday season!

An update on the egg portion of our business. We keep our chickens and ducks out on grass 24/7, but protected from predators with large fenced pens. We rotate the birds each month from one pen to the next. All the Pennington Market Farm bird information you ever wanted in this video!

Hey all, a quick notice that we WILL be at the market tomorrow (June 8), but WILL NOT be at the market next week (June 15) due to a scout hiking trip. We love you all! Hope to see you tomorrow!

Just a quick reminder that we will NOT be attending the May 18 Manassas farmer’s market. We’ll be back and ready for action May 25. Hope to see you then!

Hey all, just a heads up that we will be able to bring some lettuce mix bags to the market tomorrow. Please shoot us a note if you’d like to reserve any in advance. Email farmer@pennmarketfarm.com or you can send us a Facebook message (https://www.facebook.com/pennmarketfarm/). Thank you!

Hey all, just a quick heads up that we will not be attending the May 18 Manassas farmer’s market due to some other conflicting activities that weekend.

It’s been a great few weeks back at the market so far! We’ve had a little bit of everything with the weather, but it’s been nice seeing faces new and old. Hope to see you on the 4th!

And we’ll be there!

Some changes coming for this season:

• For duck eggs only: Due to the supply/demand situation with duck eggs, we’ll be doing away with ability to place multiple pre-orders. Henceforth, a customer can only place a single pre-order at a time. So, for example, if you do a pre-order to pickup a future week, you can’t place a subsequent pre-order until you’ve picked up your eggs from the first pre-order. We’re hoping this approach allows us to provide a wider breadth of customers with eggs than has been the case in recent seasons.
  
• We will likely not have much lettuce mix for sale at the market for the next several months. At this point, most/all of the lettuce we grow goes to our restaurant customer in Haymarket (Hidden Julles). We’re mid-way through construction of a large greenhouse to boost lettuce production and allow us to bring more to the market, but it will be some time before that’s online.
  
• We will be raising our multi-discount price to $6 for one item, $5/item for 2+ items (ie 2 for $10, 3 for $15, etc). Items that this affects include microgreens, lettuce mix, and potted herbs.

The Saturday market will be located at the same location as recent years… a commuter parking lot across the street from Baldwin Elementary. With new management running the market, we don’t yet know where our stand will be located amongst the other vendors, but we’ll keep you posted if it ends up being a different spot than prior years.

It’s been a nice handful of months off, but we do look forward to seeing old and new customers again!

Hope to see you!