GirlFarm

If you want to know what passion is, go meet any one of our many local farmers! The work they do is tireless, continuous, and exhausting, yet each day, they wake up with a big ol’ smile on their faces excited and ready to face the challenges of providing their community with delicious, nutritious, and humanely raised food to eat!
I’ll never forget my first visit to Girlfarm! Coming up the drive we were greeted by a herd of very interesting looking sheep, seemingly stampeding toward us, which stopped us in our tracks. From the ominous trail of dust that followed them you could hear commands helping Frankie Fly guide the herd down the trail and into the pasture. Eventually we saw the red quad and the «Wee Farmer», Wendy Baroli, sitting proudly atop it, who quickly jumped down to greet and welcome us to her slice of heaven.
Wendy Baroli is one of the amazing people in our local community working hard to provide us all with something a little better. If you haven’t met her, you need to! If I had to sum her up in just a few words they’d be tenacious, dedicated, passionate, and ferocious (in a good way!). At Girlfarm, her mission is to introduce our local food community to those heritage breeds and heirloom varieties that offer up the greatest flavor, which sadly have fallen out of sight as a result of more easily produced food and imports.
If that isn’t cool enough, the best part is she wants to share her knowledge and the experience of producing it with everyone as well.
Through the Girlfarm Farm Family program, everyone is invited to be a part of raising some of the animals and crops grown on the farm. From planting to harvesting, you’re able to be a part of it all. I can’t think of a better way to connect with your food than this. It’s very easy to pick up a plastic wrapped package at the store and bring it home, but there’s a whole other level of satisfaction you get when you get to consume something you helped to produce. Farm families are invited to help process chickens and turkeys, as well as enjoy some of the produce from the farm, all with the help of Wendy and her partner Jill.
The farm is nestled in beautiful country right beneath the hills at the NV/​CA border. Wendy has several acres where she raises beef, pork, lamb, chicken, and turkey, along with produce including brussels sprouts, peppers, strawberries, and more! And best of all, she’s constantly planning, plotting and dreaming about the next great thing she’ll be planting and how she’s going to bring it to market for us all to enjoy.
If you want to learn more about this amazing operation, the happenings of the farm, arrange a tour, or sign up as a Farm Family, check them out on Facebook or their website!

Real Food, Real Farmers. I’ve been buying produce and meat from them for 5 years. I’ve visited their farm on a number of occasions and these ladies do it right. They are a family venture, very small, that sells meat shares, produce and other fun stuff. You can find their products at the COop.
If you care about how your meat was raised, want to be apart of the process and can eat a little less meat in order to buy a better product, check them out.