Visit Our Farm Stand
Each week, Ivy Creek Family Farm harvests fresh, organically grown vegetables from our fields. Now, you can shop our daily harvests from our refrigerators at the front of the farm!The farm stand is open 7 days a week during daylight hours.
We have created the farm stand in hopes of giving community members an easy, convenient way to purchase the freshest vegetables around. The store changes weekly as new vegetables are ready to harvest! Winter veggies include spinach, lettuce, kale, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, and more!
Our Team
Ivy Creek Family
Anna Littman
Joe DeCapite
Abe Littman
Leah Littman
What we do
Ivy Creek Family Farm
Ivy Creek Employment
Join Our Team
Staff Openings
Ivy Creek Family Farm seeks one farmer and one pack shed manager to join our 2024 team. Applicants should be comfortable working efficiently for long hours outdoors and should have a genuine interest in farming. Compensation and job description are dependent on experience, ranging from $1,200-$1,800/month with housing on the farm or an additional housing stipend. To apply, email a resume to wncfarm@gmail.com. Position can start anytime in March or April. For more information on additional openings go to Ivy Creek's page on Attra.
It Takes a Village
At Ivy Creek volunteers are an important part of the farm. Volunteers bring their interests, enthusiasm, and skills to the team. We welcome community volunteers on a weekly basis, usually on Thursdays. They do everything from seeding in the propagation house to harvesting in the field. We send them volunteers home with loads of gratitude and with boxes of produce.
Fresh From Our Fields
The 2024 CSA is now open. Please go to our online shop to purchase a share or email wncfarm@gmail.com.
Featured Partners
Local Chefs
Executive Chef, The Omni Grove Park Inn
Richard Gras
“I have great respect and admiration for Ivy Creek Family Farm. They have helped me deliver a product to my guests that is unmatched in quality and flavor.”
Executive Chef and CEO, Katie Button Restaurants
Katie Button
“The Ivy Creek Family Farm team is exemplary in their farming practices, ethos and leadership abilities within our community, setting new standards in how relationships are built between the farming community and our local dining establishments.”
Chef and owner of Plant Restaurant
Jason Sellers
Jason and Plant restaurant have been featuring Ivy Creek produce on their menu since the farm's beginnings. Jason orders from Ivy Creek on a weekly basis and has baby asian greens, kale, baby romaine, tomatoes, mushrooms, flowers, and more delivered straight to his kitchen.
Growing Practices
We grow our produce using sustainable and organic methods focusing on soil health. Building healthy soil is the foundation of organic farming and our food system. By utilizing compost, crop rotation, conscious tillage and ecologically minded approaches avoiding the use of synthetic fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides and pesticides we maintain an active and living soil that produces nutrient rich food.
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Soil Health
Healthy soils are the foundation of organic farming and our food system. Our goal is to maintain an active and living soil, containing beneficial organisms below and above the ground that provide nutrients to plants and help mitigate pest and disease pressure. We feed our soils green manure from cover crops, organic feather meal, organic kelp meal, and dozens ofmicro-nutrients. Yearly soil samples are taken to help inform our organic amendment program and crop rotation strategy.
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Crop Rotation
All crops are rotated on a three to five-year schedule. Rotating plant families, following heavy feeders with lite feeders helps maintain a well-balanced and healthy soil, limiting the amount of pest and disease pressure present.
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Cover Cropping
Cover crops are planted yearly, in between seasonal cash crops, to sequester carbon and store it in the soil. Cover cropping also reduces erosion, helps control disease and pests, smothers weeds and increases biodiversity. Cover cropping is an organic alternative and resource conscience means of improving soil fertility and heath.
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Organic Integrated Pest Management
We use a variety of organic methods to manage disease and pests, including beneficial insects, floating row cover, hoop houses, cover cropping and crop rotation. Maintaining healthy soils and proper crop rotation are integral preventative methods to help control disease and pests. We also utilize floating row covers to protect young transplants from pests, and we introduce beneficial insects that feed on the pests we hope to eliminate. When appropriate, we use preventative treatment of organic compounds to manage disease and pest challenges before bigger problems arise. Feel free to ask us any questions about the organic treatments and strategies we utilize on our crops.
