Virginia Grass fed Beef, Grassfed Lamb, Grass-fed Chicken and Dairy Products

Grass Fed Products from the Shenandoah Valley - The Good is in the Green

Notting Hill

Pasture Raised Beef, lamb, pork and cabrito

Grass Fed	Pastured	Artisan
Beef Lamb Cabrito Milk	Chicken Pork Rabbit Eggs	Honey Cheese Sausage Paté

Quantities are
often limited --
be the first in line!

7/21/2010 - NVPG
Stumbled on this good Mainstream Media primer on the "High Cost of Cheap Food" - good to pass along to your skeptical friends.

7/5/2010 - Beatrix Farm
Hello Everyone, Our next On Farm Day 2010 for picking up fresh chickens will be Saturday, July 17th from noon till 5pm. Place your orders now to reserve your chickens. Dave & Regina Farinholt Beatrix Farm

6/1/2010 - NVPG
"Label Rouge" method pastured Chickens are the traditional way to grow poultry so that the birds are healthy and the meat is more flavorful and finer grained. These birds are available in limited quantities from Second Wind and Notting Hill.

5/17/2010 - NVPG
Relatively low-level exposure to common pesticides -- probably from residues on foods -- doubles kids' risk of ADHD, Harvard researchers find.

Kids with higher-than-average levels of pesticide metabolites were about twice as likely to have ADHD as kids with undetectable levels of pesticide metabolites, find Marc C. Weisskopf, PhD, ScD, associate professor of environmental health and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues.

"This raises concerns that ubiquitous pesticides may be contributing to the national burden of ADHD, which already is quite high,"

3/26/2010 - Notting Hill
Notting Hill started lambing very early this year; we may have some true "spring" lambs available for Easter. Spring lambs are approx 30 lbs and sold live for $60 (no processing). Please contact us directly via email, if interested.

3/1/2010 - NVPG
Pastured Eggs now Available! US Grade AA Eggs from 100% cage-free and Pastured hens. Click on the Egg icon to order your fresh eggs. Available for pick-up at Briarmead farm in Front Royal.

2/11/2010 - Briarmead
At this time of year with much SNOW on the ground and this past season's beef and lamb entirely sold out, we look ahead to warmer weather and our next butchering date in May-June; place your orders now. We appreciate all of the feedback about this year's healthy and delicious beef and lamb. The beef has excellent, rich flavor that has made several customers comment on how it makes conventional feedlot beef taste oh-so-BLAND. Additionally, Briarmead lamb chops are planned as the centerpiece of a local professional chef's upcoming gourmet dinner; sure to please the palates of a group of discriminating guests. We'll let you know how that comes out in March!

Why a Guild?
A Business of Accountability

Many folks ask us, why a guild? For a new organization that is leading the way to a new food paradigm, why model it after something archaic and gone? Aren’t Unions and Co-ops a more modern equivalent? The answer, of course, is no; no they are not.

A union is a collective that negotiates on the behalf of producers, while a Co-op is a collective that negotiates on behalf of consumers. Both assume tension between the two factions: producers and consumers.

A guild operates along different principles; it is oriented towards the craft it serves.

For producers, a guild means standards of excellence, shared expertise, and the recognition that quality is expected and that quality is measured by your peers.

For consumers, a guild means a product that meets certain standards, and a product that is crafted according to specific best practices, methods and principles—without the short-cuts so common today.

A guild is based upon accountability. Accountability to your peers, to your craft, and to your customers.

The Northern Valley Pastoral Guild upholds the craft of pastured products by providing best practices and support to our growers and providing standards of quality and accountability to our customers.

Mission:

The Northern Valley Pastoral Guild is a regional provider of locally grown Pastured and Grass Finished foods. Based in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, the Guild connects growers directly with consumers as part of the local revival of healthy food and sustainable farming.

The Guild promotes the highest quality grass finished products according to “beyond organic” farming practices that avoid all non-natural inputs including antibiotics, pesticides, hormones, petroleum based fertilizers and Genetically Engineered animals.

Our goal is to provide the finest foods to our customers as well as mutual support and guidance for our growers so that all of us may share in the benefits of healthy food and healthy soils that go beyond the industrialization of the organic label.