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Ecologically Grown Food
Waterpenny Farm is a 10-acre vegetable farm in Rappahannock County, VA. Since our first growing season in 2000, we’ve been committed to running our farm in harmony with the environment, using sustainable farming methods, with no chemical pesticides or fertilizers.
We produce healthful, pesticide-free vegetables and flowers for farmers markets, a CSA subscription program and local on-farm customers. Our CSA serves people in the Washington, DC area, Northern Virginia and Rappahannock County, Virginia.
The Waterpenny Farmers
We are the people who own and run Waterpenny Farm. In 2005, after five years of farming here, we signed a 40-year lease on the land that we farm, and have built ourselves a permanent home on the land we rent. We love farming here in Sperryville, and are happy to have the job security that signing a 40-year lease gives us. Please see this NewFarm.org article to learn more.
Eric Plaksin has worked with sustainable farming since 1993. He helped establish and manage a one-acre organic farm at Carleton College
in Minnesota. Before starting Waterpenny Farm, Eric spent four years
working on and as a manager at Wheatland Vegetable Farms, a 45-acre
pesticide-free vegetable farm in northern Virginia.
