If you understand the benefits and better quality of naturally raised and finished grass fed beef…read morethen this place is for you. Their prices are better than the grocery stores are asking for 'Natural' beef. The meat is frozen, in clear vacuum packaging. Bring a cooler. The meat itself has a fantastic fresh taste. We have tried the short ribs, 1st cut brisket, sirloin, and more. The meat thaws quickly. They carry soup bones. Plenty of links online on how to make bone broth. My wife prefers adding just some sea salt, simmering on low in a crock pot for 36 to 48 hours. We keep adding water until a few hours from finishing. She drinks it with the fat. We will save the tallow to cook with, including frying eggs in it.

I am grateful to have found Hedgeapple Farms grass fed-beef. Two years ago, I was trying to find…read moregood grass-fed beef locally and found it to be substandard in flavor and texture to the point my wife was asking me to stop buying it. Now we get all our beef from Hedgeapple Farms with grass fed beef as good as the best grain fed grocery store products. We have had Delmonico steaks that we could cut with the edge of our forks, excellent New York steaks and Chuck Tender Roasts. Hedgeapple Farms has a 5-star rating from us for two years of consistently delivering excellent flavor and texture with their grass-fed angus meats. Health benefits have also been noticed with annual medical exams and doctor's encouragement to continue eating grass-fed meat and dairy.

I joined Yelp just to warn people about Fresh and Local. We signed up for a 2011 share and it's…read morebeen incredibly disappointing. $600 for 18 weeks is actually $600 for 15 weeks because of the weeks that it's not delivered. And for that price (somewhere between $33 and $40 per week), we got about $4 worth of (bad) produce. We're talking sometimes 1/3 of a grocery bag, and always less than half a bag. For the first five or six weeks, we got the same thing: some wilted lettuce and dirty potatoes. There was usually also a sandwich bag of stevia (who in the heck uses stevia?), a fistful of greens (about half a serving when you cook them), and eventually some over-ripe tomatoes that exploded all over my counter. One week we got corn, but the worms in it had eaten most of the kernels. It got to the point where my compost pile ate more of our F&L than we did. At least their basil was good, but so was mine from my herb garden. I was paying for vegetables. I can get over the fact that F&L isn't good at growing vegetables, or at least did a terrible job of managing expectations of its customers. Their web site lists dozens of different vegetable that we could expect, like several different squashes, cucumbers, several different types of greens. We didn't get that stuff. But the single worst part: Farmer Allen. The first commenter is right on. Farmer Allen's emails are at least trite, and usually demanding and outright infuriating. Here's an excerpt. It's from the general distirbution list (sorry, Maura, you're wrong): "No one, I repeat, with the exception of Brooke from Shepherdstown, no one from the CSA has been out to help for weeks now. We have lots of simple weeding tasks that we really need the help of additional hands for. If you can come out now, please do. (But, as I always say: If you don't want to, don't feel that you have to!) Fortunately, several non-CSA people who are filled with passion for the plight of the small local farm have started helping at the farm a few hours a week." Screw you, Allen! Your customers are in DC, don't have cars, and are paying you to grow food and bring it to them! Allen, I'm paying you for a service: to bring me vegetables. I want the delivery, quantity, and quality to justify the $30-$40 I pay you each week. Don't complain that I don't come to West Virignia to pick them for you. If I were going to do that, I would just grow them myself. Don't complain about working outside or in the rain: you chose to be a farmer and I don't care. You were sick one week. That's fine. But give me a refund for the weeks that you didn't come, or ESPECIALLY didn't have enough vegetables (!?wtf?!?) to justify a delivery. Are there bright points....yes. They have good chicken and really good eggs. I would even consider just getting chickens and eggs next year and forgoing the vegetables. And some of his assistants (Maura? Mary?) seem genuinely friendly and more than willing to go out of their way to help. One way they could help is by kicking Allen off of the email and managing the communications, as Allen's emails are a leading reason--after the poor quality and/or total lack of the shares--that we won't be using F&L next year.

My 2010 share has been beyond disappointing. Farmer Alan sends emails with excuses of why the…read moreshares are so small. My favorite emails have been those chastising the members for not volunteering at the farm, an email about 3 weeks into the season indicating there would be no share deliveries that week, and an email berating shareholders for not picking up their shares. I found this last email interesting, considering the CSA did not make deliveries one week. So they can skip a week, but will criticize me if I do the same. I bought into this CSA based on the convenient pickup location and date. However, the date changed after they cashed my check. The CSA did not notify me or provide other options for me. Nice. All in all, this experience has been very disappointing and I'd caution others to get more feedback before you buy a 2011 share. There are a lot of other better options out there.

We have had their meats and eggs before at great local restaurants like Wine Kitchen, Market Table…read moreBistro, and the Restaurant at Patowmack Farm. Also they have been at the farmers market at Wheatland Springs Farm & Brewery. So we wanted to check them out when we saw they would be part of the Loudoun County Farm Tour. They have a beautiful property that we had a chance to walk around. We saw mostly saw chickens and pigs. The cattle heard was more towards the back of the property that we did not walk to. Long Stone has eggs, broiler chickens, hogs, and a cattle herd. They are utilizing ecologically sensitive rotational grazing that produces some very tasty pork and beef. They have a farm store stand selling these and other products. We bought some sausage, a steak, and some Harvue Cheese.

Love this place ! The salami Is delicious and they accept PayPal. You can't get any fresher than a…read morefarm store on a farm

excellent + high quality meat, dairy, eggs, etc. they have a home delivery service, making it…read moreaccessible to have local meat delivered to your doorstep. thank you, farmer Karl!

Great chicken, turkey, and geese. Amazing chicken and duck eggs. We did the tour of the farm for…read morethe Loudoun County Fall Farm Tour, but if you want to find them for food check out the One Loudoun, Cascades, and Leesburg farmers markets. For more details on that see http://loudounfarmersmarkets.org/

We had such a great time on our alpaca farm tour! The owners took tons of photos for us and gave us…read morefood to feed the alpacas. They were so knowledgeable and gave a great rundown about the farm and the animals. You can tell they are so happy and well cared for. Would definitely recommend this experience!

We had a wonderful visit with Erin and Kim at the Nimbus Farm! They taught our family all about…read moreAlpacas, how their fleece is harvested and spun into yarn, and some of the products that are made with it. (Even kept our teenagers attention!) We then had the pleasure of getting up close to some of their beautiful Alpaca herd and hand fed them - they were extremely gentle and sweet! We would definitely recommend a visit to animal lovers and anyone curious about Alpacas!

Nice people producing high quality clean healthy and tasty food…read more Got the pork shoulder and made carnitas out of it. Rubbed down with chili peppers, salt and cumin. Slow roasted at 275 for a couple of hours. Love their eggs too. Very tasty. Looking forward to checking out their lamb products. We met them at the farmer's market at Wheatland Spring brewery. Can also make online orders for pickup at https://robertsroostfarm.com/shop

Had such a fun time with the animals. Aimee was full of great information. I loved the alpacas,…read morethe were great to interact with. Close by is the Flying Ace farm -brewery and distillery so it made for a great afternoon for us.