Fresh Mama Farms
Vendor
Fresh Mama Farms LLC is mama owned, mama operated, mama loved. Run by single moms, we specialize in fruits and vegetables that can be served fresh, with little or no cooking, for busy, health-conscious moms, like us! We bring you spring lettuce mix, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, radishes, fresh herbs, summer squash, and more! We also feature wild-harvested blackberries, blueberries, herbs, and "wild" apple products. We grow on 5 beautiful acres in Montgomery County, MD, using sustainable methods, and harvest wild using best practices for gathering wild edibles.
At our farmers' market booth, we have unique ways of packaging our products that almost feels like a small deli salad bar, while ensuring that folks can buy affordable foods to take home, as well. We are committed to ensuring our products remain affordable and accessible to all audiences.
Non Gmo Perennial Crops Integrated Pest Management Extended Growing Season Crop Rotation No Till Use Only Organic Materials Holistic Management
We do not till, making use of silage tarps and landscape fabric for weed management. Soil amendments is normally limited to organic compost. Irrigated with potable well water through drip tape and/or hose and sprinkler. Electric tape fence is used for animal exclusion. Organic seeds are used wherever possible (roughly 2/3 of seeds used are organic). Seeds are started in the high tunnel using organic soil, then moved into 50x4' beds. Wood chips also used in paths between beds.
Lorien MacAuley is a beginning sustainable farmer, a scholar committed to advancing social justice in food systems, and a single mom. She has spent a decade doing environmental and garden education, including teaching wilderness survival skills to underserved youth, and coordinated several community gardens, in West Virginia. As manager of a one-acre nonprofit market garden, she sold at market for two seasons in Fayette County, West Virginia. She then spent six years serving beginning farmers with the Virginia Beginning Farmer and Rancher Coalition, in Virginia Cooperative Extension, while in grad school. She then spent 2.5 years working with the Farm to Family Initiative of Maryland SNAP-Ed, part of University of Maryland Extension. Now, as farmer and owner of Fresh Mama Farms LLC, she continues working towards socially just and sustainable food systems, with the goal of providing healthy food access to all.
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