Whisper Hill Farm, located in Scottsville, Virginia, is in its sixth year of production. Owners, Holly and James Hammond, come from farming backgrounds. Holly growing up in Southeast Arizona on an 80 acre "u-pick" farm and James in North Carolina to a long line of tobacco farmers. We cultivate 4 acres of vegetables, herbs, and cut flowers, with no synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified organisms.
Not mentioned here is that Holly and James also come to the new Farmers Market at Pen Park in Charlottesville on Tuesday afternoons. I walked up to their table the first market day and have been in vegetable heaven ever since.... [more]