find farmers' markets and CSAs in Philadelphia
The Camphill Village Cafe is located off Route 113 on Pughtown Road in pastoral Kimberton, Chester County. After you’ve driven over the river and through the woods and finally see that humble sign for the Café, you’ll almost be disappointed that the glorious drive has come to an end. Turn into the driveway. Turn left [...]
Black Walnut Winery, located in a 200-year old barn in Chester County, is a member of the Brandywine Valley Wine Trail. They produce regional wines as well as host wine tastings and events. I’m hoping to make it out there to a wine tasting one day soon. Hours vary, so check out their schedule before [...]
Yeager’s Farm Market is located on Rte. 113 in Phoenixville, Chester County. Family owned and operated, they sell their own corn and peaches as well as a variety of produce from other local farms. The rustic market building is spacious and welcoming, and the service is always friendly. I stop in occasionally to pick up [...]
Yellow Springs Farm, located in, you guessed it, Yellow Springs, Chester County, produces a wide range of  native plants as well as herbs, raw wildflower honey, and fresh and aged goat milk cheeses.  They also offer a CSA for their artisan cheeses. I’m adding Yellow Springs Farm to my growing list of places I want to [...]
The Anselma Farmers’ Market, located at the historic Mill at Anselma in pastoral Chester Springs, Chester County, is a producers only market featuring four produce vendors, local honey, seasonal fruits, wine, mushrooms, cheese, pastured pork chicken and eggs, two bakeries, and locally blended herbal teas. This isn’t just a farmers’ market; it’s a great destination [...]
I am so excited about the Farmers’ Market at Great Valley in Malvern, Chester County. Every Thursday from 10am to 2pm during the warmer months, area farmers bring their locally grown produce and baked goods to the corporate park at Penn State Great Valley. Holding an open air market during lunchtime hours at a corporate [...]
Although I’ve lived down the road for four years, I first visited the Phoenixville Farmers’ Market in Phoenixville, Chester County, just this summer. I was delighted to find a variety of different vendors selling everything from raw milk to fresh produce to pastured chickens to baked goods and much more. It’s a small venue, but [...]
This is our first year being members of Vollmecke CSA in Coatsville, Chester County. We were on their waiting list and were fortunate enough to be invited to purchase a fruit and veggie share just two weeks before the first pick-up of the season. Vollmecke has both vegetables and fruit, and now has eggs as [...]
I discovered the Chaddsford Winery, not-so-ironically located in Chadds Ford, Chester County, not long after I was married and moved to this area in 1995. They actually have two locations — the one in Chaddsford and a Tasting Room in Peddler’s Village (Bucks County). Wine is made and aged in the Chadds Ford facility, but [...]
It’s been years since I’ve been to Highland Orchards in West Chester, Chester County, but I remember fondly their apple cider donuts. They’ve continued to grow over the years (the orchard, not the donuts) and today they have a large farm store as well as a farm and an orchard. From their site: With over [...]
The Kolb Brothers Butcher shop is a family owned tradition in Spring City, Chester County. Butchering is all done on the property. Meat comes from farms in Lancaster County. I’m not sure if they are grass fed or not, but the service is excellent. They are always ready to offer suggestions and tell you how [...]
The Kimberton CSA, located in Kimberton, Chester County, leases their land from the Kimberton Waldorf School. There have u-pick items, free-choice items (no quantity or weight limit) and counted items (distributed by weight or quantity.) Internships are available. They welcome your involvement, and you can even “adopt” a bed or a crop for the season. [...]
I had seen signs for the J.Maki Winery in Elverson, Chester County, and finally one sunny Saturday afternoon my husband and I decided to stop in.  As we turned into the drive, we felt like we drove out of Chester County and into a vineyard in France. The owner’s home is on the property as [...]
I’d heard good things about Milky Way Farm in Chester Springs, so one day we stopped in to the Chester Springs Creamery for their moolicious ice cream. Inside it is spacious and clean and decorated in warm wood tones. There was a children’s birthday party going on while we were there, and there was plenty [...]
Spring Water Farm is an Amish farm in Paradise, Lancaster County that also supplies a buying club to Philadelphia and various drop-off locations throughout the suburbs. Rather than ordering through the buying club, I prefer to save the 18% fee and drive right out to the farm and get my food directly. There’s just something [...]
Pikeland Pastured Poultry is a small farm in Spring City, Chester County, that raises chicken, eggs and holiday turkeys on pasture. They call their animals “free grazing” because they realize that the term “free range” is misleading. (See my Learn the Lingo page for a low-down on the terms we throw around on this site.) [...]
I lived here four years before I stopped into Seven Stars Farm in Phoenixville, Chester County. I had driven past it hundreds of times, and I noticed a small OPEN sign on the door of the main building, but I never took the time to find out what it was about until last fall, when [...]
I discovered the West Chester Grower’s Market last summer. Every Saturday morning, local farmers from as far away as Lancaster County converge in a parking lot in hip and trendy downtown West Chester, Chester County. Vendors include a wide variety of wares from organic grass fed meats and cheeses to raw milk to produce to [...]
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